Doom3 - Who has tested the game???

[Mini]

I would like to know if anybody here has played the game... And what resolution and detail level + amount of AA/AF it was playable at...

I know about the hardOCP benches but id like to see some with an OC'ed system... Often 6800U was running 1600x1200 with like 56 avg frames... Wonder if people could get it higher if they OC the whole machine...

So anybody???

[kommando]

Soon i will, soon.

Didn't it get released in the states today and its being released here in australia tommorow.

[Mini]

I thought it was first out in US 2morrow...

But alot of local stores sell it before they are allowed... Who cares... 1 day more or less... Hehe...

[Der_KHAN]

as expected the game hasnt much to offer other than nice graphics:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17590 (the update column)

[r3b0rN]

ill be buying it for sure, hopefully within a fortnight.

[Cow2kie]

i'll tell you in an hour how it plays.

[Kanavit]

i'd really didn't like the Doom3 screenshots. I thought FarCry looked better graphically. The shadows and textures seem far better in Farcry.

[LilGator]

:slobber:

Unbelievable, this game rocks

:banana:

Can't get the console to open with ~ though, talked to someone else and he couldn't either, to run the benchmark...anyone else have the same prob ?

EDIT: nvm, console = CTRL ALT ~

LOL

[Jupiler]

Originally posted by LilGator
:slobber:

Unbelievable, this game rocks

:banana:

Can't get the console to open with ~ though, talked to someone else and he couldn't either, to run the benchmark...anyone else have the same prob ?

CTRL + ALT + Tilde (~)

[Cow2kie]

Originally posted by Kanavit
i'd really didn't like the Doom3 screenshots. I thought FarCry looked better graphically. The shadows and textures seem far better in Farcry.

please update your eyeballs :stick: :toast:

[LilGator]

For sure...

i'm running 1024x768 High Details (Second highest setting)

Ultra High
High
Medium
Low

All effects are turned on, shadows, etc...

9800Pro at stock XT (412/365), AXP 1700+ @ 2.3GHz (3200+ equivalent)

I've played a few levels in, very smooth, occasionally upon entering a new room with a lot of stuff / characters it will stutter for a sec to 'load' everything, but then its fine :)

[Iridium192_217]

I just got it today, I'll let you know.

[masterofpuppets]

I'm *ahem* downloading it *ahem*. I will report back when I have played it.

[masterofpuppets]

But I will buy it legit when it is out in the uk though.

[LilGator]

here's some shots:

[LilGator]

Before:

[LilGator]

And After ;)

[LilGator]

One more:

[Cow2kie]

damn game is spooky, made me jump :(

[khellandros66]

HAHAHAHAAAA

I knew this was gonna scare the crap outta people, definitely scarey. Especially the Renzor Effects :slobber:

I get it tommarow (not bad waiting since I can play the Educational version)

But still That is sweet looking.

~Bob

[Cow2kie]

i scared the poo out of my fiancee. I turned all the lights off and played the start where it all goes down. She was pretty scared 5 min into it :p

[Bastieeeh]

Do you guys know how to install it in Win2k3? The Installation Routine keeps on saying it will only run in Win2K or XP even though I turned on Compatibility Mode for every executable I could find.
I bet that there will be a patch for that issue right next week. I mean how come that Id Software doesn't support Win2K3???

Btw.: I already ordered it twice... ;-)

Update: Over here (http://www.forumplanet.com/planetdoom/topic.asp?fid=5733&tid=1438516) I found a working fix.
I copied the data of the first CD into a directory called "Doom 3", replaced the Doom 3.msi with the new one, copied all the pakXXX.pk4 files into "..\Doom 3\Setup\Data\base" and started the installation...

[Mini]

lilgator: How much ram... And what about FPS???

I wish their was some more light... You can only see like 40% of the picture... That sux...

[HawainPanda]

god it looks amazing..i wonder wat it looks oh high everything :P we should get someone on the top of orb to post screenies

man there's like nearly 1 million people dling i htink...sucks for id

[LilGator]

1GB of ram running at DDR400. FPS i'm not sure yet, i'll try and find out today...

Level loads are just as quick as FarCry, and when 'reloading' a level, almost instant.

As for brightness, the gamma levels while playing the game are higher, so its not as dark as it looks...

[Soulburner]

Originally posted by Mini
I wish their was some more light... You can only see like 40% of the picture... That sux...
That's the point...

[Cow2kie]

pull out your flashlight if you want some more light ;)

[JupiterSSJ4]

I am having problems like crazy. Mainly, I can't even get past the main menu because it is soooo rediculously slow. I mean, my mouse moves about once every 15 secs.
For my system , it recommended medium settings and 640x480. The beginning movie is very slow, the menu is unusable.
I had the 56.42 version that was on guru3d that was tweaked for very fast and low quality, and I thought maybe it was too old, so I got the newest driver in the 60's, its still the same very slow game.

My system might be in my sig but here it is if it isn't. Athlon XP 1700 @ 1.8GHZ, 512MB DDR @ 320. Albatron TI4200P Turbo 128MB. At least 10GB free on HDD, just really really slow in this game. I can play wolfenstein at highest res and quality settings with antialaising on at highest settings and get better than 60 fps.
I got directx 9.0c, does it not like c? or does it like b better?? anyone have any answers. I should be able to at least get a little bit of a playable game.

It took about 20 mins, but i finally got the menu to low quality and the text is sooo fuzzy I can't even see it.

[[XC]thewildblue]

Wicked game, "aquired" it today, installed and had a play, its really scary...lol.

Running well on my system barton 2500 @ 10x240 with 9800pro @ 460, 400. PLayting 1024x768 high quality.

[Cow2kie]

i hate the mouse lag i get if i run high & 1024. :(

[masterofpuppets]

I have just finished downloading it and I haven't burnt the cd's yet, but I will another time. Too tired to mess around with rars and bins now.

[All Kill3r]

1024 high quality runs good for me. 6AF/8AA

What an awesome looking game. And real interactive too :D

[Iridium192_217]

I got the game yesterday & started playing it today. It is very scary & the graphics are great. I highly recommend it.

[LilGator]

Originally posted by masterofpuppets
I have just finished downloading it and I haven't burnt the cd's yet, but I will another time. Too tired to mess around with rars and bins now.

LOL, bins/cues are easier to deal with then CD's :D Just mount and install ;)

[tylerhskate]

I have some pics to post, i only have a 9200se im running 4xaf no aa, 800x600 medium settings..cant wait for my GT..anyways im gnona post the best 4 outta eight. Im on the third section of the 2nd? level now, pretty far into it!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/tylerhskate/Doom3%20Pics/Doom3-8.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/tylerhskate/Doom3%20Pics/Doom3-6.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/tylerhskate/Doom3%20Pics/Doom3-4.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/tylerhskate/Doom3%20Pics/Doom3-7.jpg

[cowpuppy]

WooooHooooo it's out finaly and I have my copy. As far as cpu clock goes I didn't have to cut back at all, I was able to run my 24/7 clocks of 257x11.5=2.952 The vid card on the other hand couldn't handle it artifact free at 475/398 wich was what the ATI tool came up with and I have been using for my 24/7 clocks, I had to back the 9800XT down to 450/384 to clean it up.
I run pertty smooth at 1156x864 and the highest detail settings, but I get a little lag on door openings.

[masterofpuppets]

I have just installed it and am gonna play it later. x800 pro at stock, p4ee @ 3.8GhZ and 2gb of teh l337 ram. This thing is gonna play great!

[All Kill3r]

AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[All Kill3r]

ctrl + alt + ` = console, then type timedemo demo1

Settings :
1024x768 High Quality / 8xAF / No AA / Quality setting in control panel

=52.7FPS

1600x1200 High Quality / 8xAF / No AA / Quality setting in control panel

= 35.2FPS

1600x1200 Ultra Qualtiy 8x AF / No AA / Qualtiy setting in control panel

= 25.8FPS

1600x1200 Full Ultra Quality 6xAA / 16xAF / Quality setting in control panel

= 15.3FPS

[Mini]

All Killer... The previews say that AA works MUCH better in doom3... Looks MUCH better than AF...

[Mini]

Originally posted by Soulburner
That's the point...

So this is the most beutifull game in the world ever and you can see like 30% of the game...

Sure is beuty... Sure they arent hoxing people... What is 50% of the thing is freakin ugly???

[Chris0288]

amazing looking, lighting is second to none, runs quite well considering how complex things are sometimes, i run it 1024 High detail on my 9700pro, runs great:banana:

scary as f0ck, the sounds do it mostly, you can hear voices and screams and crying and stuff, is bloody terrifying at parts:eek: :stick:

[docah]

Originally posted by Mini
So this is the most beutifull game in the world ever and you can see like 30% of the game...

Sure is beuty... Sure they arent hoxing people... What is 50% of the thing is freakin ugly???

Turn on the flashlight and freakin look around. It's an environment desinged to SCARE THE :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: OUT OF YOU. Hence, things hide in the shadows waiting... only in this game many of the shadows are so dark you really can't see into them. Just like real life, go figgure.

I love the PDA, you can start playing back notes from some guy and keep running around killing mosters while getting some storyline :)

ps. I own it, you should too.

[WesM63]

So far, great game! I had to resort to running it on my workstation (2600+/Ti4600/512mb) compared to my actual gaming rig. (Should'nt of let my roommates use it to play d/l dvd's on the tv). Even at 1024x768 with medium settings it runs great! I get a little lag here and there but no biggie.

That damn flashlight erks me off. Why the hell can't you shoot while holding the flashlight.

Oh well great game at any rate!

[Soulburner]

Originally posted by tylerhskate
I have some pics to post, i only have a 9200se im running 4xaf no aa, 800x600 medium settings..cant wait for my GT..anyways im gnona post the best 4 outta eight.
You are running 4xAA, on THIS (http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2146&p=5) card? The one that barely manages 13.7fps at 0xAA?

I call :bs:

[All Kill3r]

Originally posted by Mini
All Killer... The previews say that AA works MUCH better in doom3... Looks MUCH better than AF...

yea, i just did those tests up there to see if others would do the timedemo so i could have someone to compare with.

I've been playing with 1600x1200 High quality 4aa/4af now that i've had some time to mess with things. Looks and runs good enough for me...

[tylerhskate]

Why would i lie? the card is a piece of :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: but thats what im running it at and it plays fine. And i said 4xaf not aa, double check it

[Zyeox]

Ok I got the game about a a week ago and I had some major issues when I got. I was seeing these red and white dots on my screen. They where small but plenty of them sometimes not to bad. I checked everywhere for answers and I found out if u underclock your card they will go away. Well I never even overclocked it. I turned it down wham it works no probs. My question is do i have to do this everytime for this game. This seems a little ridiculous. But I do admit the game is awesome. Go check out my screenshots at my site. www.zyeoxshack.com

[Mini]

I heard about that also...

You can underclock it... But ALOT of people fixed it by turning off fast writes... From the BIOS and if that didnt work then go from 8x AGP to 4X AGP... You dont lose performance but 90% the red and white goes away...

[noreturn]

Originally posted by JupiterSSJ4
I am having problems like crazy. Mainly, I can't even get past the main menu because it is soooo rediculously slow. I mean, my mouse moves about once every 15 secs.
For my system , it recommended medium settings and 640x480. The beginning movie is very slow, the menu is unusable.
I had the 56.42 version that was on guru3d that was tweaked for very fast and low quality, and I thought maybe it was too old, so I got the newest driver in the 60's, its still the same very slow game.

My system might be in my sig but here it is if it isn't. Athlon XP 1700 @ 1.8GHZ, 512MB DDR @ 320. Albatron TI4200P Turbo 128MB. At least 10GB free on HDD, just really really slow in this game. I can play wolfenstein at highest res and quality settings with antialaising on at highest settings and get better than 60 fps.
I got directx 9.0c, does it not like c? or does it like b better?? anyone have any answers. I should be able to at least get a little bit of a playable game.

It took about 20 mins, but i finally got the menu to low quality and the text is sooo fuzzy I can't even see it.

it uh.. didn't occur to you that maybe your system blows it out the butt?

[Çhrist0ph]

Im playing here @ ULTRA Quality, 1280x1024, no aa, no af. You dont even need any aa or af at ULTRA Quality in this game, it looks so perfectly fine without it, especially af, which is enabled automatically to some degree with ULTRA Quality mode. All this on a 6800 GT @ 420/1100. FPS is somewhere in the 50-60s all the time.

[Cow2kie]

its not 50-60 on my 9800np :( The imps kill my frame rates when they throw their fireball.

[tylerhskate]

Christoph will you post a couple pics plzz? I wanna check out some cool stuff @ Ultra settings

[aoc007]

Originally posted by Çhrist0ph
Im playing here @ ULTRA Quality, 1280x1024, no aa, no af. You dont even need any aa or af at ULTRA Quality in this game, it looks so perfectly fine without it, especially af, which is enabled automatically to some degree with ULTRA Quality mode. All this on a 6800 GT @ 420/1100. FPS is somewhere in the 50-60s all the time.

Whats the rest of your system specs?

[Mini]

1 of my friends is running this on a 3.0@3.7E and a 9700pro and he is OWNING my 3.0C@3.8 9800pro... He is running 1024x768 with ultra high everything on... Im only running high with everything on but 11XXx8XX... Why the hell that??? resolution is only a little higher... And the SOABS said that Ultra High would git performance HARD on a 128MB graficcard...

[noreturn]

they said you'd need a 512mb gcard, or some serious kickass system mem...

[aoc007]

He has a 3.0E Prescott? Anandtech has benches with Doom 3 where the Prescott beats the Northwood. Also how much ram does he have?

[bias_hjorth]

runs g8 here with 1280x1024 everything at high... a64 2.5ghz 9800pro 450 core 400mhz mem

[Çhrist0ph]

Originally posted by aoc007
Whats the rest of your system specs?

amd xp 1700+ tbred b @ 11x200

2x512 mb @ 400mhz ( 2.5/3/3/3/11)

DFI infinity

screenies coming soon....

[Çhrist0ph]

1280x1024 ULTRA QUALITY (0xaa/8xaf)

in timedemo 1, i get 47 fps.

heres some screens.....



http://mercury.walagata.com/w/dimmub/shot00005.jpg

http://mercury.walagata.com/w/dimmub/shot00007.jpg

[All Kill3r]

6aa/16af Ultra Quality

[LilGator]

woot, at 1024x768 8xAF on my 9800Pro i used to get 38fps. After enabling the better shader, I get 50fps :D

[Intense]

(1st post)

I had no problems playing Ultra Quality, 2x AA with my 9800PRO... I guess I should copy my OCC sig to here for my sys specs.

[I3lackCoffee]

I have played it flawlessly at 1024x768 on high details

I'm using my current hardware set up w/ DirectX9.0C and 4.7 Catalyst Drivers.

I've played once for 3 hours straight and not one glitch, not one artifact and not one hang up.

Sorry for all the other people having problems, because this is one hell of a freaky game, but it actually get's some-what *boring* later on in certain missions. But regardless, I love the shadows and how dark the mofo is. It's so bizarre how far this game went from Doom.

[Cow2kie]

nothing fancy.. i was trying to see what i could get w/ everything turned down.

[Çhrist0ph]

If you unpack all the .pk4 files in the doom3 base folder with winrar, it speeds up the game A LOT. Basically eliminates that jerkiness associated with texture uncompression. If you do the usecachemegs tweak along with this, DOOM 3 runs alot better. Also, if you have an nv40 card, the 65.62 beta drivers help a lot too.

[Sheik]

It is running fine on my 9800 Pro at Medium settings. I can play at 1024x768 and 1280x1024 no problem.
BTW there is a mod for the game where you can strap a torch onto your gun with "duct tape" for permanent light. Works really well.

[aoc007]

Does anyone know how to run doom 3 windowed? nvm its r_fullscreen 0, but I had to put it in the command line, run doom, then take it out for it to work....

[Cow2kie]

or alt+enter