[Swill]

This just in from http://www.filefront.com

they had an interview with the makers of Doom 3

We have stumbled across an interview held by PC Hardware with John Carmack. After a rough German translation, what appeared to be the Doom 3 system requirements were revealed.
A video card with at least 128MB RAM and Pixel Shader 1.1 support is required
A 2.5GHz CPU should be enough for the stencil shadows and physics calculations
The testing phase might last till summer or even later this year
DOOM 3 will be released on 4 CDs
Multiplayer will include Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Tournament and Last Man Standing
The interview also mentions that the game-testing might go well into the summer; meaning that game will not be out anytime soon, and possibly not before the fall of 2004.

On a side note, this announcement is not what you should deem as being exactly 'official', yet it does shed some light on the possible requirements for the game at least. oOo:


I did not think it would be this good of such requirements did you?

I thought maybe 2 ghz and 64 mb video card

[strvs]

Yes, i barely make it.....

[Judas]

sleeping:

[SoLiDUS]

I'll have an overclocked Athlon 64 3200+ with an ATi Radeon 9800 Pro. If
that's not enough, Carmack can suck my [Expletive Deleted] [Censored].

[Duke_of_Ray]

I have a 486 compared to those specs.

[Akuma]

I don't think my 1.1Ghz Sloweron and my PCI Radeon 9100 are going to cut it for D3....

[Miscguy]

Bah, Far Cry has higher requirments. Seeing how i built my rig to run it. This is no problem.

[Himmler]

would an amd 2800+ be considered a 2.5Ghz?

[geRV]

Originally Posted by Himmler

would an amd 2800+ be considered a 2.5Ghz?

Depends whether it has a ThoroughBred B or a Barton core, if it has a T'Bred B, it will run at 2.25GHz, if it has a Barton core it will run at 2.08GHz.

[Akuma]

Originally Posted by Gerard

Depends whether it has a ThoroughBred B or a Barton core, if it has a T'Bred B, it will run at 2.25GHz, if it has a Barton core it will run at 2.08GHz.

I don't think there are any Tbred 2800+'s. I'm pretty sure it's only a Barton core. But I could be wrong.

Either way the 2800+ performs for the most part on par with the P4 2.8C in games. So, I'd say that it is good enough for D3 if those specs are correct.

[Machette]

I have a AMD Xp 3200+, that should be good enough.

[Swill]

yeah but doesnt it meen that the processor persay needs to be 2.5 ghz?

so it can process the information fast enough instead of just 2.08 ghz...

[Miscguy]

AMD obtains speed via a differant method than Intel. Hense why intel stay swith displaying there clock speed while AMD gives you a series numbers. If an AMD processor is labeled as a 2800+ while its clock speed may only be 1.8ghz it will effectivly process the data at an equivilent speed of a 2.8 ghz.

[Swill]

ok ... i`m a b00n oOo:

[Machette]

Originally Posted by Swill1496

ok ... i`m a b00n oOo:

Glad you acknowledged that.