Doom 3 Min Requirements

pipsqueak10 · Post by **pipsqueak10** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 7:22 pm

Salesman actually talked me out of buying the game. Anyone else try playing the game on a Pentium III. My, I feel so outdated. Min req. say Pent IV

Nightshade · Post by **Nightshade** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 7:24 pm

Doom 3 is one of those games that pushes people to upgrade just to play. D3 used to be that way too.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 9:05 pm

I do not feel a need to upgrade with my Athlon XP @ 2.4 GHz / FX 5900 ultra, I'm getting perfectly playable rates.

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 9:53 pm

Anyone here playing it on a Ti4600 card? With around an Athlon 2800 level processor? If so please tell me if the game is very playable or if I need to splurge for a new card soon

STRESSTEST · Post by **STRESSTEST** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 10:05 pm

It's very playable with those specs vander

Capm · Post by **Capm** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 11:15 pm

Yea, I'm on a 2500+ (well, its overclocked to like a 3200+) but with a gf4 ti4200 64meg card - 1024x768 runs okay, gets choppy once in a while, but playable.

pipsqueak10 · Post by **pipsqueak10** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 11:20 pm

Must.....get.....new....system! Must.....play......Doom3

kurupt · Post by **kurupt** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 11:20 pm

if you'd read up on it, you'd know doom3 plays worse on overclocked systems than it does on the same system at stock speed. try putting it back to nromal, changing the cache to 256 and playing at high. with that rig you can run that just fine unless you have alot of spyware/virii on your system. a defrag may help too

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 11:56 pm

I still dont get how a game can play worse on an overclocked system.

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 12:26 am

I read that Carmack recomended against overclocking your videocard, because Doom3 used function that might not have been used fully before.

kurupt · Post by **kurupt** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 1:36 am

Avder wrote:I still dont get how a game can play worse on an overclocked system.

carmack said that doom3 will use parts of your video card that normally aren't utilized and aren't "broken in" and it could cause some damage. kinda like starting up your car in -30 degree weather and punching it all the way to work without letting it warm up.

i'm not quite sure how overclocking the cpu would hurt rather than benefit, but the hardocp benchmarks showed it running better on stock.

Tricord · Post by **Tricord** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 3:47 am

I'll see how it runs on my XP2100 /w 512MB and GF3 Ti500... But I'm not expecting too much since I couldn't run Far Cry properly.

And to think this system was top spec once... Amazing. Now just about anything blows my rig right out of the water

kurupt · Post by **kurupt** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:28 am

tricord, i bet you could run it on minimal details with that cache tweak. switch it to 256 or higher and see if you can get it to run smooth on 640x480

Ned · Post by **Ned** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:54 pm

my friend bought me a copy of Doom, now I'll defintely need to upgrade just to open the box. . . .

propain · Post by **propain** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 8:42 pm

Avder, Im playing it a ti4600 with a p4 2.4, 512rdram and multiplayer was almost unplayable, or maybe I was on a sh!tty server. Single player is great and I think between work and Doom3 I've got about 3 hours of sleep this week.