Doom III

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Mon May 12, 2003 1:59 pm

E3 is here people!!

Loads of stuff to follow later:

http://www.usatoday.com/life/2003-05-12-doom_x.htm

[H]ardOCP has a bench of the NV35 running Doom III, but their servers been hit so hard that it's offline. Apparently, people are looking forward to this game :mrgreen:

EDIT:

[H]ardOCP back up people.

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Mon May 12, 2003 3:42 pm

Got the 2nd page of the Doom III benchies. Working on the first.

http://www.angelfire.com/games5/duckkcu ... ticle.html

Please don't link this ANYWHERE because there's no way angelfire will have enough bandwidth.

[PX]IronFist · Post by **[PX]IronFist** » Mon May 12, 2003 3:52 pm

Anywhere from 23%-70%, That is a pretty nice performance increase.
Although perhaps it won't do as well in other games:

"The NV35 was built to play DOOM"

Then again, maybe Nvidia is finally taking back their crown as king of the video card market.

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Mon May 12, 2003 4:12 pm

Here's the first page:

http://www.angelfire.com/games5/duckkcu ... ticle.html

Yeah, there are 2 things I have to question:

1). What about non-benchmark games? I saw benchies for the 5800 Ultra in Warcraft 3 and it was about as slow as a GF4 MX. Not cool.

2). FSAA. Other sites have shots of the fsaa blurring the pictures. Lesser image quality = better gains. This will need to be sorted out before a conclusion can be drawn.

Overall, it looks like a promising piece of hardware. Though, the conclusion of the bit-tech.net article hit the nail on the head for me.

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Mon May 12, 2003 4:38 pm

Got the first page of Anandtech! Only...............29 to go! Aaaaaaaaah cccccrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaappppppp!!!!!!!!!

[PX] Nebuchadnezzar · Post by **[PX] Nebuchadnezzar** » Tue May 13, 2003 8:03 am

[PX]IronFist wrote:Then again, maybe Nvidia is finally taking back their crown as king of the video card market.

Here's hoping !!

[PX] Nebuchadnezzar · Post by **[PX] Nebuchadnezzar** » Tue May 13, 2003 8:25 am

wait, why are those doom 3 things hosted on your space Jason? are they secret or something?

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Tue May 13, 2003 11:15 am

They were hosted there because there was so much interest in the Doom 3 benchies that [H]ardOCP didn't have enough bandwidth to let everybody see it. I got the screens and hosted them so that you guys could see them.

Mmmmmmmm.........puuuuuurtty :

Here's to hoping that the 9800 Pro gets optimized and that the R400 is something special come September. Long live the vid card wars! :mrgreen:

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Tue May 13, 2003 11:35 am

Thanks to Gamespy:

"id Software and Activision confirmed this morning that id Software's DOOM 3 is in fact coming to the Xbox and that the demo of the PC version would be on display at Activision's booth (booth #1224 in the South Hall) beginning May 14th. Built using id Software's new cutting-edge 3D graphics engine, DOOM 3 draws players into a terrifying and riveting 3D gaming. A specific release date for id's horror filled first-person shooter was not disclosed at press time but one can imagine that it will be released when it's done. Look to GameSpy for more information on both versions from the show floor later this week!"

EB puts the release date at Reformation Day. Muwhahaha.......find out that date, and you'll know when it's supposed to come out.

THE JEW (RaVeN) · Post by **THE JEW (RaVeN)** » Tue May 13, 2003 12:06 pm

Can't make it to E3 to see the Doom III movie?

No problem

http://www.angelfire.com/games5/duckkcu ... akycam.zip

(right click link and choose "save target as")

Hurry and grab it cuz I'm most definitely gonna exceed my bandwidth on this one

[PX]IronFist · Post by **[PX]IronFist** » Tue May 13, 2003 6:50 pm

[PX] Nebuchadnezzar · Post by **[PX] Nebuchadnezzar** » Tue May 13, 2003 8:13 pm

mmmmmmmm Doom 3. Finally something to try and tax out my year and a half old machine!

[Fallen]Thumperup · Post by **[Fallen]Thumperup** » Tue May 13, 2003 8:51 pm

I ran it on my game machine and it ran really well.

when I saw a guy though it dropped to 12FPS but still playable

I played all the maps lots of fun

[PX] Nebuchadnezzar · Post by **[PX] Nebuchadnezzar** » Tue May 13, 2003 8:53 pm

your current? 2.2 gigs? or what? I forget?

[Fallen]Thumperup · Post by **[Fallen]Thumperup** » Tue May 13, 2003 8:54 pm

2 gig

Radeon 8500 Video card