froggy said:
I have a Geforce FX5900 card with 128MB, will that be enough with a XP3000?
Thanks for the link.
I have heard mixed reviews of Doom, mentioning its retro gameplay, which is why I don't feel like paying a large sum of money for it. I actually loved the previous Doom and Quake, but I guess I have moved on from that level of gameplay. I may wait a while longer...
You can run Doom3 with that, although you'll probably need to cut some of the glossy options, but it should still run ok and look good. However the FX5900 series was never a very good chipset, much like the 5800 before it.
Doom3 as a game isn't too bad, it starts off quite well, then the gameplay gets a little tedius for the next two hours, but after that the atmosphere and overall presentation seems to get better. In the end it does such a good job with the atmosphere that you no longer notice its flaws.
On top of all that it last a LONG time, the first FPS I've seen to have so many levels of gameplay in many many years.
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The HL2 code theft was real because you could actually get the FBI to comment on it, unless valve bribed them with early copies of the game!
Currently HL2 is done and in Release Candidate 1 stage, the problem right now is a legal dispute with the publisher and that has the potential to delay its delivery by several months.
Valve is known to have stated that it'll put HL2 out over Steam, at least, no matter what Vivendi try to do. Expected release is within a two or three weeks - early/mid-October. Some are now pointing towards early November though.