July 20, 2004

Doom 3 Minimum Specs

The Houston Chronicle got a hold of the minimum specs for Doom 3. • 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. These are the highest I've seen for a game. There are also reports that NOTHING out there in current hardware can play Doom3 at playable frame-rates at the highest resolutions and detail settings. This engine will grow with all of us over the next few years. I hope my 2.66ghz P4/ATI 9700/1 gig of RAM can do it justice. Read