Doom 3 minimum PC requirements announced

[vsp]

Originally Posted by hot_pastrami

* A 1.5-gigahertz Intel Pentium 4 chip or AMD Athlon 1500.
* 384 megabytes of memory.
* Two gigabytes of hard drive space.
* An nVidia GeForce 3 graphics card or better; or an ATI Technologies 8500 or better.

Crap. I have 384, can free up two gigs (though I need a second HD soon) and have a GF4 Ti4200, but I'm running an Athlon T-Bird 1300.

I'm actually not all that concerned, because I'd imagine that the video card would be more of a bottleneck than the processor speed, and if they're saying that a GF3 will be playable...

[hot_pastrami]

Originally Posted by vsp

I'm actually not all that concerned, because I'd imagine that the video card would be more of a bottleneck than the processor speed, and if they're saying that a GF3 will be playable...

Well, I hear that the element of the game which really slaps the hardware around is the dynamic lighting... and if I'm not mistaken, that's a pretty CPU and GPU intensive task. So they may be serious about the CPU requirement.

The guys at id said that they wanted this game to be scary, and I think they've hit the mark with these system requirements. Think about it... these specs are the minimum system requirements, so if you meet them, you'll probably be able to run it at 800x600 max, with low-to-moderate detail. The recommended requirements haven't been officially released yet, but they say something about some "Cray-Super" computer? Anybody ever heard of that?

[Troubleshooter]

Originally Posted by hot_pastrami

The recommended requirements haven't been officially released yet, but they say something about some "Cray-Super" computer? Anybody ever heard of that?

Now that's what I'm talking about...

[vsp]

Originally Posted by hot_pastrami

Well, I hear that the element of the game which really slaps the hardware around is the dynamic lighting... and if I'm not mistaken, that's a pretty CPU and GPU intensive task. So they may be serious about the CPU requirement.

Ehh, if that's the case, I'm done, since my A7V133 motherboard only goes up to 1.4GHz.

One of these days, I'm going to get someone to throw a bunch of NewEgg parts together and make me a faster system.