Doom 3 Official (Minimum) Specs

Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
edited July 2005 in Science & Tech
found via Warp2Search > Phobos Lab
With all the hubbub floating around the net lately about what would and what wouldn't run DOOM³, we decided to bring an end to the system requirement confusion and contact the main man, John Carmack, himself. Here is the official word on the minimum system configuration you'll need to run Doom³.

1GHz CPU
256MB RAM
GF1 or Radeon 7xxx series card


Don't expect to run it fabulous with that system setup , but everything will be playable at least.

Also from Warp2search.net
Recently we posted some Speculative DOOM III System Requirements that where then confirmed by id Software's John Carmack and now we have found an article posted over at Gamezoom.net that put's the Doom III System Requirements on Test! Here's a quick translation at the site in German

DOOM III alpha is being run on 7 PC with different configurations this should give you a good comparison with the finally version of Doom III as this will be optimised for most hardware.

Doom III System Requirements on Test



# Speculative DOOM III System Requirements:

Minimum:

# CPU: 800MHZ ~ 1GHZ
# GeForce 3 TI / ATI 9600 Pro
# 256 MB RAM

Standard:

# CPU: 1,7GHZ ~ 2GHZ
# GeForce 4 TI 4400/4600 - ATI 9700/Pro
# 512 MB RAM

Optimal:

# CPU: 2,5GHZ ~ 2.8 GHZ
# GeForce 5800FX/5900FX - ATI 9800 Pro
# 786 ~ 1024MB RAM

Comments

  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited July 2003
    1GHz CPU
    256MB RAM
    GF1 or Radeon 7xxx series card

    Sounds like the requirements for MS's next OS. :)

    Good to know the "official" minimum requirements. I think it's time to get that 9800 Pro I wanted...
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    Just the impetus I may need to upgrade my system a little early :)
  • diabx0rdiabx0r The 7th layer of friggin' hell (Bastrop, TX)
    edited July 2003
    OMFG....


    NAZIAGE

    ;[;[;[;[
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    Obviously they're using Intel MHz. The rest of us Athlon people can get by on 2.3. ;D
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited July 2003
    OK I just meet Standard. I am prolly a lil behind in the vid card with a 8500LE tho.
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited July 2003
    Thrax said
    Obviously they're using Intel MHz. The rest of us Athlon people can get by on 2.3. ;D

    Amen!
  • karatekidkaratekid Ogdensburg, NY
    edited July 2003
    Wowzers, impressive. Where exactly did they come up with the video card requirements though? A GeForce 3 is no where near a Radeon 9600 Pro, and a GeForce 4 is not on the same level as Radeon 9700.
  • WuGgaRoOWuGgaRoO Not in the shower Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    :wow: 2.5ghz for optimum...what r u joking me?!?!?!? thast means my computer cant even handle it on an optimum level...and its hardly a year old (2.533ghz p4) WHAT THE phook...*sigh* regardlesslooks like i have to update around xmas time....damn u doom 3...damn u to hell!!!
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    Technologically speaking, your p4 is about 16 months old.
  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited July 2003
    WuGgaRoO said
    :wow: 2.5ghz for optimum...what r u joking me?!?!?!? thast means my computer cant even handle it on an optimum level...and its hardly a year old (2.533ghz p4) WHAT THE phook...*sigh* regardlesslooks like i have to update around xmas time....damn u doom 3...damn u to hell!!!

    Just OC your 2.53 to 2.85 and you'll be good to go. Like 99% of all 2.53 GHz P4's can hit 150 FSB x 19, even with the stock cooler.
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    I think they need to make better game engines to be honest, this is just a little over the top.

    NS
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    w00t! I thought it would be a lot worse on the minimum specs... once I upgrade the video card in my secondary rig, even that will be able to play the game... 'specially once I put the XP2500+ in my primary and the XP2100+ in the secondary rig...
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    NightShade737 said
    I think they need to make better game engines to be honest, this is just a little over the top.

    NS
    I think the issue is that it is SO good... :cool:
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    !!! WOW !!!

    Some of my users are running Drafting applications (AutoCad, Ideas...) on their PC and everyone thought that 2 GHz, an ATI 9000, and 1GB of RDRAM was overkill.... whoa. Like to see Doom III then... must kick some major butt.
  • herman22jherman22j
    edited July 2005
    I have played doom 3 on my old pc:

    pentium 4 1.5ghz
    512mb Sdram 133mhz
    nvidia 5200xt

    With this computer i couldn't even play on medium quality of course my videocard was way too slow. but i didn't upgrade it because i wanted to buy a new computer.

    I have now pentium 4 3.2ghz HT technology
    1024mb PC3200 DDRAM 400mhz
    6600GT Pci_e 128Gddr3 ram

    With this new computer and videocard i can play it even on ultra quality without slowdowns. For this game you really need a fast computer. This game is ment to be played at ultra quality but the most people don't have the computer for it to play the game the way it's ment to be. So that's why they have added low, medium, high and ultra quality. So do you want to play the game the way it's ment to be you need to get a better PC. :cool:
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