[Skooz]

USA Today has a more recent article, but we cannot post their articles here anymore.

DOOM 3 System Requirements:

Minimum Specifications:

• 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.

Recommended Specifications:

• 2Ghz CPU or AMD 2500+
• 512 megabytes of memory.
• Two gigabytes of hard drive space.
• Radeon 9700 or an nVidia GeForce4 ti4600 graphics card or better.
• 5.1 surround sound audio

Worry Free Specifications:

• 3 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 chip or AMD Athlon 64 3000+.
• 1 gigabyte of memory.
• Two gigabytes of hard drive space.
• An nVidia 6800 graphics card or an ATI X800XT
• 6.1 surround sound audio

My system:

• 500 Mghz Pentium 3 500 CPU
• 256 megabytes of RAM
• about 100 gigs of free HD space
• nVidia gforce 2 MX 400
• very nice Audigy 2 ZS w/ MidiLand MX-5, 5.1 speakers

In other words, there is no way Doom 3 would run on my system. Have fun everybody. I might be able to pick it up next year.

[kenth]

Thanks for the post. I had forgotten all about this coming out.

I've been wasting my playing time with CoD multi.

[Phantom Lord]

When the hell is Halo 2 finally gonna be released? Thats the one I am waiting for.

[Skooz]

Consider yourself pinged.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I broke down and bought a new computer this year. I found the HP with an AMD processor to be an excellent deal that went through setup easily and quickly. And best of all, it was only $750 after rebate of $75.

[Lazamataz]

This is making me aroused.

[Lazamataz]

I cannot stand that this game requires such a powerful machine. I simply won't buy a new computer right now.

(resisting)

(resisting)

Okay, but only this once.

[Badeye]

Like you, my business partner and I both loved the old Doom game.

I have always thought the real genius of id software was allowing the "cheat codes".

Any word on that aspect?

Thanks, and please add me to any ping list alongs these lines.

[chilepepper]

in the pre-WWW days, games like doom and descent were *the* killer aps that fostered PC sales (at least for home users like me).

i bought my first "modern era" PC from gateway, a pentium 120 just to play descent... (got ripped off by gateway in the process, but what i learned in the process made it worthwhile)

[Lurking in Kansas]

My system:

500 Mghz Pentium 3 500 CPU
256 megabytes of RAM
about 100 gigs of free HD space
nVidia gforce 2 MX 400
very nice Audigy 2 ZS w/ MidiLand MX-5, 5.1 speakers

Sounds like my system. I guess that is why all my games are over 3 years old. LOL!!

[sigSEGV]

I'm going to have to wait and see how my system performs with it. I've got an Athlon 1.33 Ghz with 1GB RAM, NVIDIA 5500 video card w/256MB. Running Linux, so it should run a little better than in Windows.

[martin_fierro]

I swear I saw these guys at the FleetCenter last week.

(Microsoft Pinball Arcade and FreeSpace are about as high-tech as the games get around here)

[edchambers]

Damn I really "need" a video card!or three.As it sits I have three systems, all running, I never throw anything away.I have an old multi booter AMD K6 233 W/128 megs of ram running Dos 6.2/7.1/Win98,A Pentium 3 500mz W/256 meg and A P4 2gz W/500 meg.

[StoneColdGOP]

I need a new computer.

My ancient system features a 5 gig HD, Windows 98, 64 megs of RAM, a Pentium II processor, DOS 6.0, a twisted and mangled modem port, and a DVD-ROM drive that hasn't worked since I punched it in about a year ago.

Good thing I never tire of Axis & Allies and Aces of the Deep... Too bad I didn't keep DOOM on my system before rendering it incapable of installing new games.

[Simmy2.5]

The long awaited game is finally here (well, almost here)...and guess what? My computer, my sister's computer, my brother's computer, and my dad's computer will NEVER run it. Yeah. :-(

All well, I could always wait for the Xbox version. But by then, I would probably be playing Halo 2. So many great games coming out, so little time.

At least I'm not waiting for Duke Nukem Forever! Hehehe.

[Brett66]

I'm not sure what does it — the highly detailed textures, the fancy colored light and shadow-play, the all-new physics models, the "normal mapping" (whatever that is)

Normal mapping is a way to make a 1,000 polygon model look like it has 10,000 polygons. This is definitely the future.