*just let out a squeal of excitement*

Ok.. I'm gonna go pick up a radeon 9800, then I'm gonna rock the doomage tomorrow.

Make sure it's a Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB 256-bit!

-Lasereth

darn it I should of pre-order this!

I'm picking up my pre-order today at 7pm from EB Games.

Can't wait!!

Yeah, I wanna know how your perfomance on the game goes Krycheck. With your specs, you should be able to run it well on ultra quality, with AA on, and all that good shit. HardOCP didn't go into any real detail about what an X800 could do with the game, so it should be interesting.

My system:
2.4B 533 FSB
786MB PC 2100
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
ASUS P4S8X

I have it on Medium Quality, 800*600, and there are portions where it definitely drops below 30 FPS. Don't worry Halx, if your system (other than video card) is less than 18 months old, it'll handle this game like a beast. The 9800 Pro that Las was referring to will definitely increase gaming performance at least 50-100% over the 9700 Pro, so you should be good to go at an either higher IQ, or higher resolution. Funny thing is, the game somehow "looks" like it's running at a higher resolution than it really is. So, 800*600 "really" looks like 1024*768 and so on. No matter what resolution, the game is fucking beautiful. In a scary kinda way.

Ok.. Radeon 9800 Pro. Check!

Doom 3? ... Pending

More shots, but from my machine:

http://krycheck.iceware.net/images/doomshot1.jpg

http://krycheck.iceware.net/images/doomshot2.jpg

Great game so far. Slow start but that was expected.

/me goes play some more

What level of detail are you playing at? Looks pretty good.

I hate to say it, but it looks just about that good on just about any setting. The real difference is AA, and due to Krycheck's setup (check me here), an AMD FX-53 coupled with a Radeon X800 Pro, he can actually pull this shit off. High AA, that's what we're talking about here. I'd say High Quality at least.

I'm kindof dissapointed about how the soldier looks. Blocky I'd say.
I'll wait a little longer before I upgrade then. Currently on a 1.6Ghz with 5700 ultra and a Gig of RAM.

This game is crazy.

The first few levels are fucking scary as hell. Tis midnight... and it is a very very dark game. You HAVE to run around with your flashlight and when you see an enemy switch to your gun ASAP!! And then shoot into the dark and hope you are hitting them! lol

Awsome game.

I dont want to go to sleep... they will get me...

Yea I just got my first bit of playtime on it as well, I am playing at low settings, at 1280x1024, and I can't really notice a lag, plus it looks good enough to quench my gaming thirst. The playing in the dark does make it kinda annoying switching back and forth, but there were at least 2 spots where I put up my light and there were 2 guys there pouncing on me, and I had to switch back real quick to smoke them. Needless to say this game has made me jump, and that's a hard thing to do for a game.

I'm running.. p4 2.53 / 512 meg ram / WinXP (which I installed only for this game.. so it's pretty clean) / nvidia gforce 4 mx

and DAMN.. did it drag if I had anything cool like high resolution/detail or any of the advanded features. I think it's my video card, and I plan on remedying that soon.

Still, the game was good. Sometimes the darkness got annoying, but I enjoyed it.. I'll be back to it tomorrow.. for now.. sleep (and then work :( ).

My ti4200 can run at high quality pretty well at 800x600 cant really tell a difference between medium at that resolution though.

This is a clear-cut case where I can say, with no ego, that your video card is definitely your bottleneck here. Drop that crap, go get an Sapphire ATI 9800 Pro from Newegg for about 200 bucks, and play merrily.

I'm not one to try and control another person, but maybe you should try it out on 1024*768 running at a higher detail level. You'll probably get just as good framerate and the game may look better.

Meh. I've never been a fan of the Doom games, I never found them entertaining. I did like Heretic, and Wolfenstein 3D, though.

I'll just probably pick it up for the Xbox, so I can play the Xbox-exclusive co-operative online mode with my friends via Xbox Live.

I was kinda disappointed when I heard only 4 players (maybe that's changed, but doubtful) can play online (in deathmatches).

I believe that count is up to 16 now.

Alpha Labs Sector 1
 

(warning: possible spoiler ahead)

I keep getting mauled by a pair of revenant/imp type things in Alpha Labs Sector 1. In the room beyond the reactor thing where they convert the ferrous oxide to useful materials (you hear a lecture as you walk past). Anyone else have trouble there? Grenades a solution here?

I say, lure them into the light, strafe like a bitch. That's my strategy. It works well for Lost Souls, you get them into an area where they can't really get behind you. If you're out in the open, you'll get slaughtered.

It's at high detail and 1280x1024. I'm gonna try ultra high and a lower res. Although im playing on a lcd monitor which is native at the higher res.


I'll try to take the same picture at different detail levels so we can see the difference.

I'm also playing it on a XP 2500+ / Ati 9600XT system and we can take a look at the performance of that as well.

bltzkriegmcanon loves the game so much he changed his avatar. I almost didn't recognize you

I think he found the mirror in the bathroom in the base... admittedly its pretty cool, and nice to make those kinds of screenshots with. :D

where the fudge were you people able to buy the game at? no store near me has it yet unless you pre ordered it! aghh dont tell me EVERYONE pre ordered it!

Funny moment in the game with the Martianbuddy PDA spam.

Spoiler:
Martianbuddy.com is an actual site and has the access code to the crate on the site.

Spoiler: 0508 is the code and it nets you a sweet chaingun


Multiplayer is 16 players at the moment; I just wish I could run the game at a speed to make multiplayer slowdown free. I'm currently running at about 25 fps on a Barton 3200, gig of ddr4000 and a GF5700U.

I'm going to see if I can find it now. wish me luck.

18 hours yesterday, 16 hours today, and i've finally beat it.

Spoiler: I expected the end boss to be alot harder than he was.

Definately a grade A+ game. They put ALOT of thought into almost everything they did, and it's a job well done.

There were alot of bumps in the long road, alot that made me so paranoid to the point of not wanting to go any further, checking every little corner for baddies only for them to fall from the cieling. All the levels played wonderfully on my system, and some of the graphical effects were mind-blowing. I couldnt have asked for anything more, it satisfied my hunger for a good game in every way possible.

It's true that graphics are second to gameplay, and I commend iD on making a game that serves both on a nice golden platter.

you, sir just made my day

Has anyone played the XBox version yet? I wanna hear how it plays.

I've put in maybe 6 hours of gameplay, onto a level called Alpha Labs 4.

The game itsself is a mind blowing experience, just I feel my self growing bored of the repetitiveness of "go here, ok now go here, oh wait.. now here."

I get 30-60FPS on average (Using Fraps 2.0 to determin this.)

My system is as follows:
AMD 2500+ Barton (Currently At Stock Speed due to a failed northbirdge fanset)
1024MB Corsair XMS LL (Also at stock due to reason above.)
Gainward Ge-Force4 Ti-4600 (Stock speed.)

She runs perfect at 1024x768 w/medium settings and v-synch off.

Here is a video I made while in game (used fraps).

http://www.disp0sable.org/video/doom3-help-him.avi

I have others, but dont wanan spoil anyone with guns or monsters they havnt seen yet.

i love this game, i need more ram though only have 513 of pc4000, it really does need 1 gig of ram to run great, and a reinstall of windows, windows hates me.

btw what does v-sync actually do?

syncs your framerate with your refresh rate.

I think it sticks your in-game frame rate to refresh rate. If your frame rate exceeds your refresh rate, you get what are called "screen tears". The image looks super choppy. Turning off V-sync prevents this.

Uh, hate to say it, not all of us bought it. In fact, at least 50,000 of us didn't buy it. From Tom's Hardware News:

This game is great, I got it last night and played it for five hours straight, then I spent at least 3 hours today.

However I did quit after the first 20 minutes, I shot 2 monsters then the third killed me. Repeated a few times, got pissed, alt-f4'ed out. Couple of minutes later I just started up again and loaded god mode and all ammo/weps cheats.

Letsee, I think im either on the Enpro level or the one after that.

Your video card does not even meet up with the minimum requirements. Geforce 3 is the minimum requirement (better then your geforce 4 mx)

Well, in fact I preordered it, but because the shipping date is on the 10th here (in Europe) and I didn't feel like waiting, I helped myself to a bittorrent version until my copy arrives. I hope others are doing this as well... id deserve to get paid for the excellent work they did on this game.

cheers

The bathroom (coming back up) was kick ass ;)

Yep. :)

There are a number of very badass scenes that i've seen so far.

Geforce 4 MX is a 64 MB card last I checked, it meets minimum requirements, but will be a humongous bottleneck. Just drop $200 for an Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro.

I got my copy of doom3. yay.