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10-08-2003, 02:00 PM
From Our Friends at <a href="www.Gamepro.com"> GAMEPRO.COM</a>
<A HREF="http://www.gamepro.com/computer/pc/games/features/31282.shtml"> <b> Doom III Q&A Gamepro Link </b> </a>
A piece of it:
GP: So the base is a 1 Gigahertz processor for playability on PC?
TH: Yeah. Really, the gating factor for most PCs will be the graphics card. You have to have geometry acceleration on the board. Basically, we're looking at it as you don't have to start turning stuff off to make it run at an acceptable framerate. The framerate taps out at 60 frames per second—it won't ever run faster than that. We believe that everybody will be able to enjoy the experience at 30 frames per second. So there are going to be some differences depending on what system you have, but basically, a GeForce 2 class of card should be a full-impact experience at a reasonable frame rate.
TW: Until we're finished with it, it's impossible to nail that down.
TH: Yeah. The minimum spec, literally—when we're weeks away from being completely done and we start testing it on system, that's when we come up with "This is acceptable performance" or "Wow, we need to optimize this," and we haven't gotten to that point yet
<A HREF="http://www.gamepro.com/computer/pc/games/features/31282.shtml"> <b> Doom III Q&A Gamepro Link </b> </a>
A piece of it:
GP: So the base is a 1 Gigahertz processor for playability on PC?
TH: Yeah. Really, the gating factor for most PCs will be the graphics card. You have to have geometry acceleration on the board. Basically, we're looking at it as you don't have to start turning stuff off to make it run at an acceptable framerate. The framerate taps out at 60 frames per second—it won't ever run faster than that. We believe that everybody will be able to enjoy the experience at 30 frames per second. So there are going to be some differences depending on what system you have, but basically, a GeForce 2 class of card should be a full-impact experience at a reasonable frame rate.
TW: Until we're finished with it, it's impossible to nail that down.
TH: Yeah. The minimum spec, literally—when we're weeks away from being completely done and we start testing it on system, that's when we come up with "This is acceptable performance" or "Wow, we need to optimize this," and we haven't gotten to that point yet