Doom

dreamers75 wrote: »

Pro Tip: Dont stop moving ever!!!

That tip is as old as Doom 1.

I have an i5 2500k with a 750ti

It's managing 35 fps at best.

Can anyone tell me what the best value graphics card I can upgrade to that will get me 60fps guaranteed in Doom?

Or should I be upgrading my cpu and motherboard as well as my gfx at this point?

The SP campaign looks great and was impressed watching it on Cohh's stream. After my experience of the MP beta, I'm not so sure the MP will have any lasting value or wide appeal. So will wait for it to go on sale and then pick it up for the SP. Must also upgrade my graphics card - still running a 680 which is beginning to show its age.

omerin wrote: »

As someone that is old enough to have played the original Doom, I am disappointed with this version (probably old age is a factor )

For me the issues are -
there is no atmosphere. The original was soaked in it
it is too fast paced
it is too arcadey
graphically for me, it is too cartoony, really have a dislike for games like borderlands
The normal level is far too easy - health is too freely available and see next point
the AI is practically non-existent
there is no reload with shotguns/pistols - like wtf in these types of games part of the fun/scare is panicking when your gun is reloading and you have hell coming at you. For example you start with 20 shotgun shells and not once do you have to reload - joke

lets go back to basics - take advantage of the extra horsepower in PCs but don't ruin it by going down the road of gimmicks that has for me put the final nail in the coffin of COD.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that BF1 doesn't follow suit

I, too, played the originals back in the day, but I have to disagree with most of your points.

Atmosphere: this game features more than 12 varying textures, thus building on atmosphere with different settings. The sound effects are great and tension can most certainly be felt with many jumpy moments as well as the difficulty of the game.

Fast paced: Doom was always fast paced. You stand still, you die. Also, iD are harking back to Quake.

Arcadey: Doom was an arcadey game.

Graphics: The graphics in this game are excellent. You compare these to Black Ops 3 and you can see a great leap forward in fidelity. Are you running it on max settings? Even the sparks cast shadows, volumetric fog and smoke effects penetrated by light and shadows, great animation with the demons, the level of detail on the guns, etc., etc. It looks nothing like Borderlands. If you are referring to the numbers that pop up for damage, you can turn that off in gameplay settings.

Difficulty: I started it on Nightmare and it is very challenging. Normal is for filthy casuals using controllers :P

AI: I agree to some extent. However, I find them tough at Nightmare difficulty. They actively pursue you and try to get up in your face with flanking. They also run away if you have the jump on them and you have to give chase.

Reloading: Doom never had reloading until Doom 3. I get what you mean by making it scarier, but if you are comparing the game to the originals then you should remain consistent. If you want reloading they would have to change the dynamic of the game to cater for it. But if you want the old-school Doom then reloading has to be removed.

This game is everything COD is not and that is a wonderful thing. Did you play Wolfenstein? Similar gameplay and style but it has reloading. Maybe that would be more your thing?

Got latest drivers and my fps stays around 20-30 fps with low, medium and high settings with gtx670, nothing seems to effect it, really odd

Robert ninja wrote: »

Dissapointed no linux support for this. I was skeptical about getting this but it doesn't seem too bad at all. A possible sale purchase. But as long as it remains a windows only game I don't think it's worth money. Can't buy DRM free copy, either.

I put a post on their forums way back asking for DRM/steam free edition but they just started deleting all the posts about it.

Money is what drives Bethesda these days; it was surprising to see some of their older stuff show up on gog, but they'd probably stopped making much elsewhere, so what's to lose? You'll be waiting a long time if you hope to get this DRM free and/or for Linux.

Falthyron wrote: »

Some advice to PC users:

I have an i7 4770K, 16gb DDR3 and a R9 390X, but with everything cranked up to Ultra (with applicable settings on Nightmare), my frame rate was dying in certain situations; as low as 15fps at the worst of times but highs of 180+ in others. I tried adjusting many settings to get a stable 60, or higher, but could not achieve this at all. It was only when I went near the Shadows setting that the problem was resolved. For some reason, AMD cards struggle incredibly if you have the Shadows setting on anything above 'High'. As soon as I dropped it to 'High', but kept everything else on 'Ultra' or 'Nightmare' (including AA TXAA x8), I was getting 100 fps almost consistently. It now no longer dips below 80 with highs of 140+.

Just to go further on this AMD knew there was serious issues with the drivers for the 390 and they released newer ones on the 17/18th after your post that fixed the issues with the 390 and 390x

I suppose this is the best place to post it, but anyone with an AMD card (not Crossfire). The new Vulcan API update has made a significant performance increase. On my 290x I was averaging around 30 FPS and dropping to 10-15 at times if I were playing at all high and 3440 x 1440 I now am getting a solid 60 with some drops to high 40 FPS. From reading some other forums it would seem that AMD have a much larger increase in performance over Nvidia (for now).

Robert ninja wrote: »

^ Great to hear Vulkan hitting a popular new game like this and having performance gains. Hopefully it helps the chances of more than just windows support.

It would be great if it worked out that way