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☖ Forums → Discussion Forum → Will Doom 3 be playable on my PC ?
Will Doom 3 be playable on my PC ?
2004-08-04, 10:34 AM #1
Hi, i will like to wheater my pc will be able to handle the graphics of doom 3 in medium Quality.

my pc config is:
PIII 1.0Ghz
Asus CD Rom 52x
Geforce4 Ti4400
512mb Ram

I know that my PC is a low end capable machine, but I will be upgrading it when Half life 2 will be released. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]
2004-08-04, 10:36 AM #2
You could have checked the other Doom3 threads. Some posted their specs and asked if it would work....

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2004-08-04, 10:38 AM #3
Not enough processor power I think

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2004-08-04, 10:47 AM #4
True. Minimum is 1.5 GHz if I recall

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2004-08-04, 11:20 AM #5
the min RAM is 3 something right? I wouldn't have enough [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif]

How do I found out this GHZ thing on my processor?

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2004-08-04, 11:27 AM #6
Well One way to find out is go to

start: run: then type dxdiag press enter

then look at processer
2004-08-04, 12:30 PM #7
What I mean to say was that will it run on this
config. because if not then I will have to get a new processor. or do I have to run it on low details, res 640*480.....?
2004-08-04, 12:32 PM #8
Your computer will run, because A guy I know has about the same specs as yours, but it didnt run very good. I Would reccomend upgrading your CPU and graphics card.

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2004-08-04, 12:36 PM #9
Anybody have a clue about my laptop?
2.4Ghz Celeron
194MB RAM
Built in shared video card thingy

Not hopeful, but it made UT2k4 run sort of ok...

*Dreams...*

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2004-08-04, 12:36 PM #10
thanx man. Now I think i will have to upgrade it to something new. But as the New High end graphics cards are very expensive, i will try to go for used GPU on Ebay.
2004-08-04, 1:58 PM #11
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Martyn:
Anybody have a clue about my laptop?
2.4Ghz Celeron
194MB RAM
Built in shared video card thingy

Not hopeful, but it made UT2k4 run sort of ok...

*Dreams...*

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upgrade your ram and it still might not at best maybe low quality at a low resolution just because the video "card" is probably quite weak... in other words ram upgrade and wait for the demo...

also if you don't have windows2k/xp you are out of luck

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2004-08-04, 2:01 PM #12
Cheers - I've got room for s**tloads more RAM, which will the feed the video "card" too. Oh, and I'm running XP, so no worries there. Didn't demo's used to come out BEFORE the full releases back in the day..? Or is that just me making things up?

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2004-08-04, 2:34 PM #13
really depends on the game... they originally wanted to get the doom3 demo out before the game then decided they should finish the game first

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2004-08-04, 9:58 PM #14
I kind of thinking which card I am going to buy
because I have to keep in consideration that there are other games coming like half life 2, Halo 2 and other great games. Some reviewers has said that ATI will perform much better than
Nvidia cards on half life 2 if this is true then I would like to go for ATI cards. Can someone help me in this one.....?
2004-08-04, 9:59 PM #15
I am kind of thinking which card I am going to buy, because I have to keep in consideration that there are other games coming like half life 2, Halo 2 and other great games. Some reviewers has said that ATI will perform much better than Nvidia cards on half life 2 if this is true then I would like to go for ATI cards. Can someone help me in this one.....?
2004-08-05, 5:00 AM #16
Okay, don't worry about your card (yet), it'll run Doom 3 fine, 1024x768 2xaa 2xaf medium detail. How do I know? I own that card :P

Get a new processor like...now. 2.0 ghz at the LEAST (or 2100+ if you're going for AMD). Your card you can worry about later on.

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2004-08-05, 7:21 AM #17
You've gotta be kidding me... my processor runs at ~600 ghz... [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif]

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2004-08-05, 7:22 AM #18
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Glyde Bane:
You've gotta be kidding me... my processor runs at ~600 ghz... [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif]

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don't you mean MHZ?

600 GHZ chips probably won't be around you another 10 years.


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2004-08-05, 8:10 AM #19
Yup Mhz not Ghz............?
2004-08-05, 9:36 AM #20
Oh, sure, flawlessly... in 320x240. Yeah, 600GHz just MIGHT be here in mabye, 30-40 years.

[This message has been edited by Obi_Kwiet (edited August 05, 2004).]
2004-08-05, 9:44 AM #21
More like 10-15 years. Maybe less... probably not though.

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2004-08-05, 11:26 AM #22
I can't see it climbing up that high ANYTIME soon. Why? We haven't even milked all we can get out of 2ghz yet. I mean with the introduction of 64-bit computing, lower clock speeds don't neccesarily mean worse. Hell even before that, AMD was showing that smaller MHz!=worse performance.

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2004-08-05, 11:35 AM #23
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Pagewizard_YKS:
don't you mean MHZ?

600 GHZ chips probably won't be around you another 10 years.


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"Oh."

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