DOOM 3 GOES GOLD!!!!

**janne_oksanen** · 07-16-2004, 10:07 AM

I really didn't expect it to be released for Linux at all so even a lonely distant download corner will do. The HW upgrade kinda frightens me tho...

But I'll be back in school (read: rich) in no time so I guess it's time to upgrade this baby to 21st century.

**maccorin** · 07-16-2004, 12:01 PM

Originally Posted by ZennouRyuu

maccorin?? Using Closed Source Software???:shock:

Maybe I should hang on to my soul, I may be needing it shortly..... ***Gulp***

lol... i believe i said "maybe", but in all reality, i probably won't

**ZennouRyuu** · 07-19-2004, 08:41 PM

www.doom3.com finally took an update today with some nice screenshots and a video for you to drool over.

**beezlebubsbum** · 07-20-2004, 01:31 AM

Do you guys reckon that an Athlon XP 2000+ will suffice? I know I have to get a better video card (or at least one that can render OpenGL under Linux), for it to work. Sounds exciting nonetheless!

**ZennouRyuu** · 07-21-2004, 02:35 AM

The mimimums are in:

• A 1.5-gigahertz Intel Pentium 4 chip or AMD Athlon 1500.
• 384 megabytes of memory.
• Two gigabytes of hard drive space.
• An nVidia GeForce 3 graphics card or better; or an ATI Technologies 8500 or better.

The numbers arent back from NASA on the recommended

Betting starts here:

My Vote:
Gig of RAM
256MB GFX Card (AGP8X)
2.4Ghz + CPU

**beezlebubsbum** · 07-21-2004, 03:06 AM

So I should be fine then. I just need to get a little more memory, and a better graphics card, and then I'll be able to play the hottest pc game around. Sweet! Will it work natively under linux? Because the games that I play under Linux I use WINE.

**jro** · 07-22-2004, 02:23 PM

HardOCP has some numbers for Doom3, its worth checking out. It looks you won't need to sell your soul after all to play Doom3 with fair quality.

http://www2.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjQy

For top of the line gaming, however, you might want to start checking out soul brokers to get as much as you can, cause it won't be cheap.

No Linux version in sight tho....

**beezlebubsbum** · 07-22-2004, 10:34 PM

To tell everyone the truth here, I run my games at 640x480, pretty much, all the time. I find that the higher resolutions make everything look a little more "blocky". Plus, I think that 640x480 will always allow smoooooooth frames!

**jro** · 07-23-2004, 02:33 PM

ouch, 640x480, you might as well just break out the old Atari, it might look better. Then again, with my current machine I can only run 8x6 on most games, tho I would like to run higher, if I had the power, but alas, no...