Doom3 Beta2

[pubjoe]

Has anyone played recently the Doom3 beta, I know its old now but there's a beta2 out, basically making it run a lot easier and a few homemade (I think) levels added.

...Runs surprisingly well on my machine (ti4200 + 1600XP) Most of the game is really smooth but goes jumpy ocasionally.

Fucking scary though and the best Graphics you'll see on your PC. Amazing when you think this was first leaked almost 2 years ago now.

...Don't forget to turn the lights off

 

[thebluenewt]

Yeah, I wish they'd actually finish it!

 

[Steve-O]

supposed to be out in May I was told... The Final Release should be faster than the beta I would think... Now I just need to get my Ti4200 working at full speed hehe

 

[unlucky]

bah the demo woudl run super smooth for a while ( 2500+xp overclocked 2 3200xo+ with a 9600 xt ) but i soon ran out of ram only 256mb of ram i really need 2 get that sorted my ram doesn't match my system

 

[Steve-O]

DOOM 3 Requirements -

A video card with at least 128MB RAM and Pixel Shader 1.1 support is required for DOOM 3.
A 2.5GHz CPU should be enough for the stencil shadows and physics calculations.




DOOM 3 will be released on 4 CDs.

does the Geforce 4 Ti4200 have Pixel Shader 1.1 ??

I REALY Need a Job now hehe.. Im hoping to update to a Athlon 2600+ and 1GB DDR PC2100... Think my ECS (ELite) K7S5A Will be ok to keep??

 

[pubjoe]

No it doesn't need pixel shader.

The beta runs well on my ti4200

I wouldn't worry about it, you have a good card at a cheap price, the next cards up are very expensive at the moment (unless you go for an under-powered cheap FX).

Just play some games like:

Prince of Persia SoT
Beyond Good and Evil
Need for Speed Underground
Max Payne 2
all Unreal Tournaments up to 2004 demo
Call of Duty
Halo (800x600 & vsync off - due to shit coding)

...For that matter every latest (I love IRC) game I've tried runs flawlessly with the card.

I don't know about battlefield, but I can't think why it's under-performing. I have been meaning to play it for a while and know a friend who's got it so I'll have to borrow it and try it out. As I said I'll let you know when I try it.

Heres a couple of shots of PoP SoT running nice and smoothly (That I just sent to The Accidental Video Game Porn Archive):

...Not the best shots I could show you but it's all I've got at the moment.

Don't :unsure: , be

 

[pubjoe]

Try 3D mark to see if you've got problems, you should be getting around 9/10k.

 

[lizard808uk]

@ Steve-O, I have a K7S5A and recently updated to Athlon 2400XP from a Duron 800. You will find it next to impossible to get Athlon 2600 since the front side bus needs to be 266mhz and they only made these chips in small quantities. You will also need bios update (dont use Award, they can mess up - theres a homebrew one out there that is nigh on perfect).

Looking forward to Doom 3's release.... (I tried to download this over P2P, turned out to be some dodgy porno!).

 

[Steve-O]

got the link to that Firmware??? WIll that allow Overclocking to the CPU ??

Thanks

 

[lizard808uk]

I will try and find the link tonight.

The regular firmware doesnt allow you to overclock it as far as I know, since you're running the FSB at full stretch. There maybe a third party firmware out there that will let you do this (not sure about this).

Once its up and running, its really fast.

 

[lizard808uk]

@ Steve-O : http://www.ocworkbench.com/2002/ecs/k7s5aguide/

This should help (or fry) your motherboard

 

[Steve-O]

@ Steve-O : http://www.ocworkbench.com/2002/ecs/k7s5aguide/

This should help (or fry) your motherboard

lol... Thanks... I Might try it