Doom 3 Goes Gold!

[Sektor]

Spec update: If you have a 1.5GHz Pentium and a 3D card that has been made in the last couple of years, you should be able to enjoy the DOOM 3 experience as it was meant to be. - Id Software

[Magicman]

[H]ard|OCP's Official Hardware Guide to Doom3

[Knight of Lodis]

So....... who got Doom 3?

[Sokar468]

I'm waiting for the demo. Yeah, the graphics rule, but the gameplay, I heard, is very subpar. So I'll get the demo, ooh-and-ahh at the graphics, then delete it.

My god, this coming from someone who is obsessed with the DOOM franchise...what's wrong with me?!

[Magicman]

In your DOOM 3 directory, find "DoomConfig.cfg" (x:\Program Files\Doom 3\base). Open DoomConfig.cfg in Notepad.

Find the line:

seta image_cacheMegs "32"

I changed 32 to 96.

you get the context of altering the size of the hypothetical "folder" that image textures are loaded into, therefore giving your GPU more power to actually compute then have to worry about trading out textures within its memory.

[Knight of Lodis]

Magicman said:

In your DOOM 3 directory, find "DoomConfig.cfg" (x:\Program Files\Doom 3\base). Open DoomConfig.cfg in Notepad.

Find the line:

seta image_cacheMegs "32"

I changed 32 to 96.

you get the context of altering the size of the hypothetical "folder" that image textures are loaded into, therefore giving your GPU more power to actually compute then have to worry about trading out textures within its memory.

Um what exactly are you talking about since I don't understand trading out textures. Are you trying to say doing that makes it run smoother?

[Magicman]

Knight_of_Lodis said:

Um what exactly are you talking about since I don't understand trading out textures. Are you trying to say doing that makes it run smoother?

Yeah.

[Knight of Lodis]

I am not a big doom fan so I will probably just get the demo to see how well it can run on my computer. A few of my friends just got it but I haven't been over yet to see.

[Sokar468]

Magicman, some config files allow you to enhance/alter the enemy AI. Since the AI in DOOM is apparently weak out of the box, do you know of anyway to tweak that in the default .cfg?

[Magicman]

Sokar468 said:

Magicman, some config files allow you to enhance/alter the enemy AI. Since the AI in DOOM is apparently weak out of the box, do you know of anyway to tweak that in the default .cfg?

Not as of yet.

I'll look for it though.

[Sektor]

I just got off Doom 3 around 5 minutes ago. The gameplay is pretty good but I haven't seen too much of a variety of weapons. I'm still too early in the game to judge it though. The way the game builds up fear and tension is great! There's one part where you enter a room and a door closes behind you. All of a sudden you see a huge hellspawn staring at you outside the window. Next, the thing goes to the door and starts smashing it in - making dents on the door everytime it hits. Then, seeing it failed, it goes back to the window, roars at you, breaks the glass and jumps right at you. If you like pissing your pants, this is the game for you

[Kamon]

Yea my friend let us borrow doom 3 so we got a crack and all , i dont have much to say but here is what he said : "I've had Doom3 since the day it came out, i didn't have to reserve it or anyhting, i just went to BestBuy and pwned it. The game is TehPwnage, unless u have a crappy comp ( then dont even bother trying it out ).
The minimum Requirments are always bs so ima tell u what ure pc should have in it to be able to PWN Doom3.First of all, THE CPU DONT REALLY MATTER!!! I have a 3.2 gh HT Tech. P4 but for some reason there is a hardware problem with both the new MB i got and the proccessor so it heats up and wants to blow up my comp.. Well anyway, u should focus on buying a card from the 9800 family, preferably the 9800 Pro 256 or the 9800 XT 256, these two cards are Teh Pwnage and the X800 is just a waste of money, 500$. The normal x800 is 400 but its not mauch better then the 9800 so if ure willing to spend some $$$ on your comp for these uber games, get the X800 XT PE which will make you crap your pants 5 times harder and faster... Thats all u need and about liek, 512 mb of Ram to be able to pwn, all the 1gig crap is for noobs who think Ram is everything... The game itself is TehPwnage ^^, the guns pwn, the monsters pwn, and the cut scenes pwn even more than anything. There are like 15-20 diff guns, combination of plasma pwnage, bullet pwnage, and weird alien thingamabobbers that rip the living mofos outa the guy your are using it on , OH YA, dont forget the chainsaw, pwnage itself. Since the pwnage of the Chainsaw is unlimited, you can pwn almost any enemy with it, without losing much life or armor. The graphics in this game are the best ever, not even half-life 2 has better graphics then it and ive seen it on the best VPU in the world, (Visual Proccessing Unit) Half-Life two is alot bigger than Doom3 and has more textures and all that shiz, so the makes prolly didnt have enough time to PWN every single little thing, liek the nobs who made Doom3 did ( NO LIVES!!!) yup. They did make a pwnage game in a short period of time and stuck to their release dates, not liek HL2, pushed back like 1 1/2 years, NOOOO. Lol, some people went crazy from it not being released on time and hacked into the vALVE network and stole enough of the source code and HL2 files that they were able to make a playable version of it, which is three levels long. I dont recommend trying to dl this beta (since its ILLEGAL) Lol. So, even tho HL2 is teh ownz, DOOM3 is TEHPWNAGE for now, and will stay TehPwnage untill WoW, HL2 come out or when D3 is announced or has a supirise realease date, whcih i doubt wil happen . Well its time to go Pwn Counter-Strike:Source, see you chicken mofos later and dont forget to thro away your crappy Nvidias and buy a ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 256 TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "

[DRottenI]

Someone count how many times he said "PWN" or pwnage" lol ;D

I remember rockin out to the first Doom in my old days, ah the pixelated blood ;D

[Kamon]

Someone count how many times drotten uses ;D

[TreasureFinder]

DRottenI said:

Someone count how many times he said "PWN" or pwnage" lol ;D

19

Kamon said:

Someone count how many times drotten uses ;D

2.56978136321689978512 x 10^2365454321