[01010]

Originally posted by Stealth


try moving through the fog or other environmental effects.  i guarantee you you'll see the game lag.  because on his system (i played on it yesterday) it lags.  not EXTREMELY by any means, i guess i shouldn't have said it hardly runs, but you can definately detect the lag.  still playable of course, but it's there.

and you've got to have every option and detail turned on.  otherwise you're not experiencing the game as it was meant to be played, and you can't say "It runs fine on my system" ...basically "Doom 3" is just to show off the graphics, which are amazing.  the engine's going to be around for a long time though.

I'm running with everything on, been through fog no problems, been through environmental effects with no problems. If your friend is running on Ultra quality mode tell him to drop it to high quality, the difference is negligible (the Ultra mode uses uncompressed textures and normal maps and requires a 512mb video card, it can cause texture thrashing on lower memory cards).

[Stealth]

Originally posted by 01010


I'm running with everything on, been through fog no problems, been through environmental effects with no problems. If your friend is running on Ultra quality mode tell him to drop it to high quality, the difference is negligible (the Ultra mode uses uncompressed textures and normal maps and requires a 512mb video card, it can cause texture thrashing on lower memory cards).

check your framerates... i guarantee you they'll drop noticeably at certain times when running through fog  They do on my card and on his, and he works for nVidia.

[Rol]

the athmospäre is very good the effects scared me that i throw the mouse off my desk

you shouldnt play the game when you are not mental stable:)

[Fear]

Dam i'm stuck in alpha lab sector 4. i need to get to a powerplant or something to reach bravo team.(as quickly as possible).

now after i open something on the computer a bridge keep turnig around to 4 diffrent places, i tried to reach 1 of those postion but no luck... i can go down with the ladder but nothing is there expect a few monsters i killed.
any advice ?

[Fear]

im sorry for the bump

but dam i cant pass it.... any ideas?

[Fear]

Originally posted by Mr. Fury

I've got A64 3200+, Radeon 9800XT 256 Mb, 1 GB 400 MHz DDR RAM and Doom3 runs very smoothly. Occasional fps droppages due to heavy shadowy environments but not below playable. I think Catalyst 4.8 and 4.9 will improve performance enough for even shadows to work smoothly.

By the way, the best performance tweak in Doom3 seems to be disabling shadows.

I've got 1.6A , radeon 9500pro,512 mb . doom3 runnig smooth +player shadow pretty smooth...(At least when no 5-6 monsters around).

[StratComm]

Shadows work fine for me, though there is some visable graphical tearing once in a while.  It's not bad, (nor should it be given the system it's running on) but I expected better.  Again, the new Catalysts may help in that department.

Game's a bit too dark though, it causes a lot of eyestrain if you play for too long.  That and the fact that it's incredibly hard to shoot at monsters you can't see, yet who can somehow see you perfectly.

[Fury]

Doom3 is probably pain to CRT monitor owners.

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Stealth


try moving through the fog or other environmental effects.  i guarantee you you'll see the game lag.  because on his system (i played on it yesterday) it lags.  not EXTREMELY by any means, i guess i shouldn't have said it hardly runs, but you can definately detect the lag.  still playable of course, but it's there.

and you've got to have every option and detail turned on.  otherwise you're not experiencing the game as it was meant to be played, and you can't say "It runs fine on my system" ...basically "Doom 3" is just to show off the graphics, which are amazing.  the engine's going to be around for a long time though.

actually, it's quite playable on mine.. fog doesn't phase it, really.

[Stealth]

well i guarantee you you both don't have the same settings then, because if you don't have a video card on the same level as the x800, and you have the settings as high as he does... then there's certain areas in the game where it will slow down, if just for a second.  and don't say he doesn't know what he's doing... he designs video cards for nVidia.  it's just a fact that some areas of the game are so intense on the video card, that with all options on and high, there will be significant framerate drop.

[Stealth]

there are certain areas of the game that with the x800 it will slow down with the settings high.  don't question his knowledge or what i'm saying.  he designs video cards for nVidia, he knows what he's talking about, and i've seen his computer, and the lag in the game with my own eyes.

it's not massive lag, but there's an obvious decrease in framerate for a second at certain "graphically intense" areas of the game.

[Setekh]

I dunno man, for all your guarantees it still sounds like those guys are getting pretty decent framerates. Ah well, I'll wait to see how some locals find the performance.

[Bobboau]

hey, what do the new imps look like

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Bobboau
hey, what do the new imps look like

they're more fierce than their doom cousins, and they can crawl along walls and ceilings.

[Bobboau]

hmm, nice, it's reasonably similar to the origonal yet still diferent enough to make it cool in it's own right.

what happened to pinky though, from what I've seen they totaly screwed that one up, it looks nothing like the origonal

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Bobboau
hmm, nice, it's reasonably similar to the origonal yet still diferent enough to make it cool in it's own right.

what happened to pinky though, from what I've seen they totaly screwed that one up, it looks nothing like the origonal

heeeeere's pinky.. yeah, not like the original, but there's actually a lack of "horned" demons in doom3, however..


the hell-knight looks better tho.. he looks more ominous.

[Bobboau]

yeah, but neither one looks like what there suposed to be, why not just call them something else?
I just don't see the point.

[Gloriano]

Demons are awesome.......

just got Doom3 and gameplay is sweet well everything in Doom3 is sweet anyway..

[Fineus]

Originally posted by Bobboau
yeah, but neither one looks like what there suposed to be, why not just call them something else?
I just don't see the point.

I guess the question is, does it matter that they haven’t stayed entirely true to the old Doom formula / style? Its been so long since Doom 2 that – in my opinion – there’s room enough for evolution and changing of the details to better suit todays expectations and tech.

[Ace]

Just finished it. It really seems like a mixture of Doom and System Shock 1.

Overall, fun and it has a ton of atmosphere. "Horror" wise it's pretty gimmicky house-of-horror style fear, just like the original Doom games. However, there's a few moments where Shock style creepy things are done.

The graphics are a little less flashy than UT2K4 or FarCry. However, there's a higher attention to detail. Things such as different glass distortions, the Flash animation based things on the computer monitors, etc. Character animations are also much better and the AI isn't quite as dumb as I was expecting it to be. (some of the monsters do use cover and coordinate attacks)