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Has anyone heard the change in required specs from high end G5 to slightly lower for Doom 3

# Operating System: Mac OS X 10.3.6 or later
# CPU Processor: PowerPC G4/G5 or later
# CPU Speed: 1.5GHz or faster
# Memory: 384 MB or higher
# Hard Disk Space: 2.2GB free disk space
# Video Card (ATI): Radeon 8500 or better
# Video Card (NVidia): GeForce FX 5200 or better
# Video Memory (VRam): 64 MB or higher
# Media Required: DVD Drive

Is what is posted on Aspyre.. Looks like my 17" 1.5Gh Pbook might stand a chance (at the low end)

[Mass Appeal]

I have seen those specs before but did'nt know that they had changed from a higher requirement. Sadly I have a 1.25 PB so I'll have to wait for the X-Box version. When it's released and you test it out post the results I'm interested in how well it performs on the low end.

[SonOfSylvanus]

Originally Posted by Mass Appeal ... Sadly I have a 1.25 PB so I'll have to wait for the X-Box version...

Rubbish! Lets you and me creak along at 21fps with all settings to "Highest Performance"!

[Mass Appeal]

Originally Posted by SonOfSylvanus Rubbish! Lets you and me creak along at 21fps with all settings to "Highest Performance"!

I'm down as long as the I.V. of Dramamine lasts.

[Luca]

Someone actually got Doom 3 running on a pair of SLI Voodoo2 cards, and actually got it running at around 20-40 fps. Of course he's backing it up with a 2 GHz Athlon, and it's not rendering any of the really demanding stuff, but it's still impressive for such an old card.

Check it out (56k warning):

http://www.hwsetup.it/images/screens...5194919_48.jpg

Looks like Doom 2.5 or something.

[SonOfSylvanus]

Originally Posted by Mass Appeal I'm down as long as the I.V. of Dramamine lasts.

Sorry, you've completely lost me.

/more into HL2 (though never played it despite owning it, 'cos my bro's comp is too slow )

LUCA, PLEASE DO NOT POST HUGE INLINE IMAGES!!! (heh )

[Mass Appeal]

Originally Posted by SonOfSylvanus Sorry, you've completely lost me.

Games with poor frame rates, Duke Nukem' especially, give me awful motion sickness. LINK

[Luca]

Originally Posted by SonOfSylvanus LUCA, PLEASE DO NOT POST HUGE INLINE IMAGES!!! (heh

That sounds like a challenge! Okay, you're on.

http://www.imben.net/junk/rava.jpg

Jesus fucking christ man, that inline image froze my computer up twice. Not cool. Changed to link.
-murbot

EDIT: Damn. Well, too bad SoS didn't see it, but yeah that was way too big. Sorry I didn't edit it earlier - I, uh, kinda forgot...

[SonOfSylvanus]

Biatch! Heh. I left it for 5mins and it still wouldn't load.

P.S. DON'T CLICK THE EFFING LINK. DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YOU...

[Crusader]

Sweet, I'm gonna have to try the demo and see how well it runs on my PB...

[ZogDog]

Good Lord, you sank my battleship (aka safari)!

[stoo]

It runs acceptably on my 1.3GHz Duron with a Radeon 8500. However, two caveats:

• You'll want 512MB of RAM.
• The Duron, despite costing all of £26, is a floating point beast. I'm not sure if Altivec can save the G4.