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Pleasant surprise -- Doom 3 Performance
I'd have to say this is completely unexpected, but even my crap GFX 5600
plays Doom 3 like a bat outta' hell on High Quality settings! Well maybe not a bat out of hell, but certainly very smooth and much better than I ever expected. Up until now, and from experience with the alpha, I had thought a low end GFX card would be up the creek in Doom 3, but apparently not. The engine is much faster and more highly optimized than I could ever dreamed. I'd have to say anything from a GFX 5500 on up, or maybe a good overclocked 5200 Ultra will do extremely well. 5700's are sitting very nicely currently. The FX's aren't so bad after all. |
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On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 15:58:20 -0500 deimos meeped :
I'd have to say this is completely unexpected, but even my crap GFX 5600 plays Doom 3 like a bat outta' hell on High Quality settings! Well maybe not a bat out of hell, but certainly very smooth and much better than I ever expected. Up until now, and from experience with the alpha, I had thought a low end GFX card would be up the creek in Doom 3, but apparently not. The engine is much faster and more highly optimized than I could ever dreamed. I'd have to say anything from a GFX 5500 on up, or maybe a good overclocked 5200 Ultra will do extremely well. 5700's are sitting very nicely currently. The FX's aren't so bad after all. let me know if it's still smooth with no occasional slideshows when you get to "Alpha Labs section one" (basically the 3rd major section) -- ) ___ ______ (__/_____) /) (, / ) / __ _ (/ _ /---( __ _/_ _ / (_(_/ (_(__/ )_(_(_ ) / ____)(_(_/ (_(__/_)_ (______) (_/ ( |
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deimos wrote in
: I'd have to say this is completely unexpected, but even my crap GFX 5600 plays Doom 3 like a bat outta' hell on High Quality settings! Well maybe not a bat out of hell, but certainly very smooth and much better than I ever expected. Up until now, and from experience with the alpha, I had thought a low end GFX card would be up the creek in Doom 3, but apparently not. The engine is much faster and more highly optimized than I could ever dreamed. I'd have to say anything from a GFX 5500 on up, or maybe a good overclocked 5200 Ultra will do extremely well. 5700's are sitting very nicely currently. The FX's aren't so bad after all. What CPU are you running? |
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Posts like this are meaningless without the following information:
1. your machine specs (including driver used for vid card) 2. your game settings (including resolution, advanced settings, etc.) 3. Results in timedemo demo1 "deimos" wrote in message ... I'd have to say this is completely unexpected, but even my crap GFX 5600 plays Doom 3 like a bat outta' hell on High Quality settings! Well maybe not a bat out of hell, but certainly very smooth and much better than I ever expected. Up until now, and from experience with the alpha, I had thought a low end GFX card would be up the creek in Doom 3, but apparently not. The engine is much faster and more highly optimized than I could ever dreamed. I'd have to say anything from a GFX 5500 on up, or maybe a good overclocked 5200 Ultra will do extremely well. 5700's are sitting very nicely currently. The FX's aren't so bad after all. |
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On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 01:19:50 GMT Granulated
meeped : let me know if it's still smooth with no occasional slideshows when you get to "Alpha Labs section one" (basically the 3rd major section) -- ahh I fixed the problem by disabling AF -- ) ___ ______ (__/_____) /) (, / ) / __ _ (/ _ /---( __ _/_ _ / (_(_/ (_(__/ )_(_(_ ) / ____)(_(_/ (_(__/_)_ (______) (_/ ( |
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Granulated wrote:
On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 15:58:20 -0500 deimos meeped : I'd have to say this is completely unexpected, but even my crap GFX 5600 plays Doom 3 like a bat outta' hell on High Quality settings! Well maybe not a bat out of hell, but certainly very smooth and much better than I ever expected. Up until now, and from experience with the alpha, I had thought a low end GFX card would be up the creek in Doom 3, but apparently not. The engine is much faster and more highly optimized than I could ever dreamed. I'd have to say anything from a GFX 5500 on up, or maybe a good overclocked 5200 Ultra will do extremely well. 5700's are sitting very nicely currently. The FX's aren't so bad after all. let me know if it's still smooth with no occasional slideshows when you get to "Alpha Labs section one" (basically the 3rd major section) Yep. I beat it last night. Even during the Guardian and Cyberdemon fights, not even a hiccup. I was surprised. While the framerate is not all that high, it stays consistent and doesn't have wild variations even during intense battles. I do notice a drop when I get hit direct in the face with like a Cacodemon fireball or Imp (the shader heat-wave effect). |
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JS wrote:
deimos wrote in : I'd have to say this is completely unexpected, but even my crap GFX 5600 plays Doom 3 like a bat outta' hell on High Quality settings! Well maybe not a bat out of hell, but certainly very smooth and much better than I ever expected. Up until now, and from experience with the alpha, I had thought a low end GFX card would be up the creek in Doom 3, but apparently not. The engine is much faster and more highly optimized than I could ever dreamed. I'd have to say anything from a GFX 5500 on up, or maybe a good overclocked 5200 Ultra will do extremely well. 5700's are sitting very nicely currently. The FX's aren't so bad after all. What CPU are you running? XP 2500+ "Barton" |
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Eric wrote:
Posts like this are meaningless without the following information: 1. your machine specs (including driver used for vid card) 2. your game settings (including resolution, advanced settings, etc.) 3. Results in timedemo demo1 "deimos" wrote in message ... I'd have to say this is completely unexpected, but even my crap GFX 5600 plays Doom 3 like a bat outta' hell on High Quality settings! Well maybe not a bat out of hell, but certainly very smooth and much better than I ever expected. Up until now, and from experience with the alpha, I had thought a low end GFX card would be up the creek in Doom 3, but apparently not. The engine is much faster and more highly optimized than I could ever dreamed. I'd have to say anything from a GFX 5500 on up, or maybe a good overclocked 5200 Ultra will do extremely well. 5700's are sitting very nicely currently. The FX's aren't so bad after all. AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton Leadtek K7NCR18D-Pro NForce 2 400 512MB PC2700 DDR Geforce FX 5600 w/ 256MB RAM Windows XP SP1 Forceware 61.77 800x600x32 at High Quality ingame No AA, no AF, Tri and AF optimizations disabled All advanced options on (spec, shadows, vsync, etc) No timedemos as of yet, only general observations and gameplay experience. I'm sure the average framerate would not be all that great (maybe 30-ish overall), but the experience is more important. |
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