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Doom 3 gone Gold - August 3rd expected
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Originally posted by CivilServant
Here's a new movie for u gamers to salivate on. Looks very sweet.
Some parts of the vid lag a bit. I wonder what graphics card they were using. Hope it will work good on the x800 cos I just ordered one!
Looking forward to this one and I agree with the last sentence in the clip! hehe
AHHHHHHHHH!
*splurge*
oh yeah...thats the stuff..0 -
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Originally posted by amp
Chill Scruff, Syxpak is merely expressing his disdain for the X-box. Mind you his pc isn't that much better than a X-box so I'd use that as a starting point for your retort.
Personally I think Doom3 could look alright on an X-box given that the graphics code can be optimized to buggery on it, thanks to it's fixed platform.
And remember folks, looks aren't everything. Gameplay rules all.
/me stabs Amp in eye with Fork of Seeing
Scruff, I know there's an XBox version coming out.
I know full well it wont' run acceptably on my machine. And my machine would kick tiny silicon lumps out of the XBox on toe-to-toe.
It's annoying to see yet another game that really only belongs on the PC getting shafted over to the XBox where you're going to be limited by the controller (Joypad Vs Keyboard+mouse debate 2004 V3.24), the underpowered machine and the fact you've to play it on a TV which will really improve your squinting ability but won't do much for your gaming experience.
Plus side is you get to sit on a couch.
Unless you're doing things right and have a data-projector setup
I would compar the difference between PC and Xbox versions of Doom3 with Kellog's Honey Nut Loops and Honey Nut Cheerios.
Those who have a clue know which ones are the original, but you're going to have a load of new-comers buying the flashy thing off the shelf and declaring that as the best thing since Cinnemon Grahams without having ever tasted the Real McCoy.
Therefore their opinons matter SFA and their seed should be wiped from the face of the earth with localised nuclear explodey devices.
Think the ending to Dr. Stranglove only instead of one big cloud, you'd have two beautifully small mushroom clouds lighting up his crotch for a brief instant leaving only barren testes and singed pubic hair.
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I'm feeling a bit peckish after all that talk of gaming and genetic purification...0 -
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Originally posted by Krusty_Clown
I hate to post one of these 'do you think it will work on my rig' type questions, but I have to know...
Will it run on a GForce 4 4200 Go (mobile) graphics card? I meet the other specs, just not sure about the graphics card.
GF4 Ti Vs GF4 Ti Go
Thanks to nVidia's wonderful tradition of making it hard as fuck to simply compare products directly and their emphasis on meaningless marketing buzzwords instead of cold hard tch specs, it's hard to note the significant differences between the desktop and mobile parts, but here's a rough idea:
They seem to both have the nFiniteFX II engine, (Dx8.1-level pixel and vertex shaders afaik), but I'd imagine the Go version is castrated in some way, either lower core and/or memory clock, less pipelines or something disabled in them to make them more palatable for mobile use.
In general clock-speeds and features in a laptop mean nothing.
A desktop costing half the price would whip a laptop around the place.
Laptops are not gaming machines.
I'll put it this way: I expect to be able to play D3 on it's filthy-ugly settings on my mahine, at say 30fps, *just* enough to have a bash at 1-3 early single player missions.
You should be able to expect a little bit better milage then that. With a little tweaking you should be able to play it reasonably comfortably.
I'd say loading times will kill you though laptop hdds aren't exactly the fastest things on earth, unless you want a 'top that weighs too much and can't last longer than 20minutes from a power socket.
I'm planning an upgrade to a 2Ghz Barton/Gig of ram
Will probably use my current gfx card for a bit in that too (GF4 Ti4200-8x @ ~4400-4600 clockspeeds).
I expect to be able to play D3 relatively comfortably on that, say mid-low settings at 1024x768 at around 60fps. I'm not saying I will actually achieve that, but that's what I'm aiming for.
Recap:
Laptops are merely tools, commodity utility pieces, about as good at play games as a Kango hammer.
Sufficiently portable power supply, ultra-low power (sub 1V everything) components and efficient/recontributing thermal solutions will eventually give us high-power, truely portable machines. But I don't want to wait 15 years.
[ultimate disclaimer]
But you never know
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