[dba-Tech] RAM timings question.

wow, so I'd better hold off on that Alienware Area 51 for another few months
then? :-)


Jon
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Oops, missed this first time.

The real problem/bottleneck is the video card. The rest of the system is
much
more than adequate, but the game is so incredibly graphics-intense that it
really needs one of the new cards with 256 MB video RAM and one of the
latest
graphics processors to run well. In fact, I understand that the "ultimate"
mode in Doom 3 *requires* a video card with 512 MB video RAM, and those
haven't even come out yet. But the system specs for Doom 3 are pretty wild
too: nothing less than a P4 1.5 MHz, at least 384 MB RAM, and 2.2 GB of
uncompressed drive space, and it does not run on anything less than Windows
2000.

Ron
> Eek, a 3ghz with 1gb of ram and it'll be a slide show??? What do these
> developers want, blood???
>
> Doom was one of the best (and most important) games ever written. I wonder
> if they'll keep the same feature whereby you didn't need the installation
CD
> to play it from on the new version? :-)
>
>
> Jon
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> <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 6:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] RAM timings question.
>
>
> I don't know enough about RAM timing to address your other questions. But
> this
> one
>
> > On a side note, how do ya'll think that the 4200 might do on Doom 3?
>
> Ahhh, that one is more up my alley :)
>
> It will run just fine, at "high" quality settings at 800x600, decals on
and
> vsync enabled. Go any higher on the resolution or try ultimate quality and
> it
> will be a slideshow at best. This from direct experience last night :)
>
> Ron
>
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