Since it is on the main news page, you had to expect a thread about it.
First question: How does this happen? Unreal2, UT2003 and now Doom3, Is it somone working for the publisher, some nerd who hatched an elaborate theft plan at e3? Industry types must have a good theory or two.
Second question: Who's got it? What did you think? I'll admit I'm getting it, I got Unreal2 as well. I'm just curious about it thats all, ID is still going to get my cash when it comes out.
Even though I'm guilty of exploiting the situation by downloading it, I still think its a shame that this happens.
Although if one day in the future Duke Nukem Forever is leaked, you come straight to me damnit :)
Oh yeah, since I mentioned unreal2, even thought there is no multi-player for it, with the leaked copy you can still create bot-matches, not bad :)
Lead paint: delicious but deadly!
Call me old fashioned but i thought KOTOR deserved the taste of my backhand [:p].
Anyway, has everyone seen those horrifying specs for Doom III?
Low-End:
1.5GhzP4 or equivalent
512MB Ram
Geforce4 Ti 4800 or Radeon 9500
Mid-Range:
2.4GhzP4 or equivalent
1GB RAM
Geforce5950 or Radeon 9800 Pro/XT
High_End: Aka Hardware that doesn't exist, but best guess anyway
3.4GhzP4 or AMD equivalent
2GB RAM
GeForce 6800 Ultra or Radeon X800 XT PE.
Oh well... my two new systems shouldnt do to bad:
AMD Athlon XP 2800s
Kingston 1024 DDR
GeCube 128m Radeon 9600XT Extreme
I think i'll try before i buy just like i am doing with FarCry [:p]
A fella at work came in a few weeks ago and returned an Athlon 64 3200 because apparently one of the guys here told him it had 1MB cache whereas they only have 512Kb. I quickly snapped up the CPU from my manager for $300 when we sell em for $470, cost being around the $450 mark.
That replaced my tired old XP1900 Athlon which I'll drop into my sisters computer so she can play The Sims 2. Hopefully my 9500 will be kind enough to let me play Doom 3 well enough, I don't want to have to buy a new video card too.
Just thought that a few people may be interested in this movie on Doom 3. It was quite and interesting watch, but you could tell that they were all tip-toeing around the problems they had when deciding if they should make it or not. The gameplay footage does look pretty damn nice.
http://doom3.planet-multiplayer.de/comment.php?897
Big downloads :)
I think as long as you have a decent enough computer to run recentish games - i.e. UT2k4 on pretty damn high settings, you'll be fine playing Doom 3. From what I have read you can scale the amount of texture compression that the game uses and the amount of sound data and other things depending on how powerful your computer is. The main factor in playing Doom 3 will probably be a combination of Ram sizes and Processor power. Which sounds like every other game but usually they don't fill up anyone's ram to the max.
Yeah I read that, although I don't trust the calculations as much as other people. Suffice to say that it might be about right, but then again that will happen in 2007, so a still long way away.
The money shouldn't be a problem, since by that time the low end computers will probably be around the very high end specs today, so we should be able to play the next game anyways. (That is the low end gaming machines)
Did anyone see the id/Creative patent story in the news today?
[url]http://www.beyond3d.com/index.php#news14459[/url]
Boo Creative!
Maitreks post was worthy of 96% according to PCPP [:)].
Anyone seen the new trailer, damn it looks good. Heres the link for everyone: http://www.filerush.com/download.php?target=d3pcdownloadfinal.mov
tbag - lol
I was just reading that HardOCP article, seemed pretty unobjective but having said that it's well known that the latest nvidia card and doom 3 were designed a bit hand in hand towards the end of their development.
ATI are rewriting their OpenGL drivers from scratch so hopefully some improvements will be made in that regard.
wait, arent raven soft the guys behind the jedi knight series? I mean they were allright games but they werent amazing...