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quake.ie main news doom 3 hardware requirements
 20/07/2004   doom 3 hardware requirements3269 views | 8 replies 
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Laurent Humblet




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looks like it's not that bad for the minimum requirements. although it's the minimum requirements and certainly not the fully-enjoyable specs.




  • 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



http://www.chron.com/cs/cda/ssistory.mpl/tech/weekly/2690450

edit:


you can find here some official video card benchmarks ran by the idsoftware team but only for the latest nvidia/ati video cards :


john carmack:


it should be noted that all of the modern cards play the game very well, and benchmark scores should not be the be-all-end-all decision maker. scores will probably improve somewhat with future driver releases, and other factors like dual slots or dual power connectors can weigh against some of the high end cards.


[h]ard|ocp:


id software has done a great job of bringing doom 3 playability to the masses, probably including a larger portion of the gamers out there than has ever been done with a cutting edge gaming title.


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

edit:


as regard to your game input, it's definitely not a "requirement" but check out this doom 3 keyboard by ideazon zboard:


http://news.gaminghorizon.com/media/1090379222.html

edit:


and about the next idsoftware game requirements :


http://curmudgeongamer.com/slashdotarticle.php
 
 

20/07/2004 21:29#1
Illkillya
James Galvin


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I have enough to cover that... i'll wait awhile before buying any new hardware so :>
 
 

20/07/2004 23:20#2
anonymous





NEED NEW GFX CARD, WILL PAY IN BLOOD
my 9500 wont let all eye candy be turned on ;[

sno
 

21/07/2004 00:26#3
anonymous





min requirements mean that they're minimum to run the game without it crashing.
Expect 10 fps.

mel
 

21/07/2004 08:35#4
Illkillya
James Galvin


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I used to play Quake1 on a 486
 
 

21/07/2004 13:47#5
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Actually, I don't reckon will be quite the system-killer everyone reckons. The leaked alpha is the only thing we've got to go by at the moment, and that doesn't run too badly. Plus, you can bet the final version's far better optimised.

Sure, if you want all the detail on you'll need something silly (like a gfx card with half a gig of ram) but in relative terms it won't be too far off q3 when it came out.
 
 

21/07/2004 19:00#6
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i used to play q3 with the 'puck' apple/mac mouse
 
 

22/07/2004 10:39#7
Illkillya
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nice update there; i can wait awhile before buying a new gfx card then
 
 

22/07/2004 11:13#8
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