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I prepare for life in Connecticut by laying in my bed and playing Doom 3.
Saturday, 2004-08-07 | Classic Gin, Videogames
Installed and ran id's Doom3 to-nite. My trusty desktop and his 1.5 GHz of processing power were no match for the resource hog. Even with my fancy ATI All-In-Wonder (which has its own fan) pulling graphics detail, the 8100 was no match for John Carmack's full fury. We're talking massive frame loss here, people--and that was after I disabled anti-aliasing, bump mapping, special effects and turned the resolution all the way down.
The 8200, my mobile deck fared slightly better. I was still losing frames at the lowest resolution, but I could at least run the prog with bump mapping enabled.
I'd like to offer two conclusions; one follows from the above and the other does not.
- Doom3 will chew up and spit your computer out--if you're not rocking top of the line gear, expect a farce.
- Doom3 is about the baddest shit ever. Even while my machines choked and sputtered, I was still scared completely out of my wits and squealing like a young girl every time I got jumped or ambushed by the demonic host. To give you an idea of how badass Doom3 is, I'm going to let it leave it's icon on my desktop.
And the icon is a motherfucking pentagram.
Yeah, it's that kickass.
