An excellent guide to tweaking the hell out of Doom 3 has appeared at Tweakguides.com.
I came across this article on Hard[OCP] last night. It should give people a good idea of whether their machine will handle Doom 3 before they buy it. I was quite surprised myself at how well it ran on my lowely Radeon 9600! It would appear also that the game still looks curiously stunning at 800x600, with much better framerates than 1024x768.
Hard[OCP] agree:
What we noticed immediately is that DOOM 3 looks incredible even at 640x480! And as we increased the resolution, the game began to look more and more like a pre-rendered movie. Visually, DOOM 3 is unlike any other game we have ever seen on the PC. We initially began playing DOOM 3 on the minimum spec system, which consisted of a GeForce4 MX-440 64MB video card at the Low Quality setting and 640x480 resolution. We were literally drawn into the game, and became fully immersed in it at these settings. As we used increasingly faster video cards and were able to raise the resolution, we discovered something interesting that we had never seen before in a game: antialiasing was not necessary.
I have a computer to sell if anybody is interested. Specs are as follows:
800mhz Pentium 3 on a Compaq branded (IIRC) Asus motherboard 256mb PC100 RAM 30gig Harddisk Radeon 64mb DDR VIVO Graphics card SoundBlaster Live 5.1 Pioneer DVD Drive Microsoft Keyboard and Mouse
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It would appear that Doom 3 has gone gold! The official word from Todd Hollenshead is that it will arrive here in the UK on August 6th.
IT’S DONE!!!!!!!
Yes, this is the official word that DOOM 3 has been code released and has been approved for manufacturing! It won’t be long now until the anticipation ends and the PH34R begins ;-) We literally just hung up with Activision and have confirmed that our latest release candidate has been mutually approved and is finally GOLD. Thanks to everyone for their patience (yeah right! =) and for everyone at id, Activision and our numerous partners for helping us create what I believe is absolutely the best game we have ever made.
Finally, after all this waiting, prepare to have the crap scared out of you.
Found this on Gentoo Forums. I know it’s probably old but i’d never seen it before.
Made me chuckle!