ATI released a new set of drivers a few days ago. Since it has changes that pertain to DOOM 3, I though you owners of a board of that brand would like to know ;) Performance Improvements: In OpenGL, several game titles show improvements in the lower settings. Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory, for instance, shows gains as large as 15% in low resolution (dr...
I remember hearing people praising DOOM 3 about its scalability at the time of its release, that is its capacity of running well whatever the specs of the target system. Well, I came down on a crazy stuff today, so crazy that it is hardly believable! Apparently, some people are still using 3dfx Voodoo 2 graphics boards (released in 1998) because a guy nic...
Barry's Rigs 'n Reviews has just posted a review of the "Zboard Gaming Keyboard" for DOOM 3. The D3 keyset that comes with it has its own unique key mappings; in particular, you can activate any weapon, the console, get back to the main menu etc at a single key press which is indeed very handy. This keyboard costs $39 and each additional keyset around $19...
Xbitlabs.com has an article up that is testing CPUs to see which CPUs can provide the best game play in Doom3, They have discovered some interesting things.They have come up with some suppressing results in the timedemo tests, and have found that the older Athlon XP Processors don’t even compare to the newer Athlon 64, and Pentium 4 Processors when it come...
Legit Reviews Has Tested To See How Well Doom 3 Will Run On Laptops an overall very interesting article that has them telling their system, and settings, and what kind of graphics chips and how well it worked out. Here's why they decided to do this all of a sudden After attending Quakecon 2004 and meeting some dedicated readers we found that one of the most...
The online shopping giant Amazon is now selling a Doom 3 keyboard set by Ideazon. Here are a couple of pictures: http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002H7NO2.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002H7NO2.01.PT01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002H7NO2.01.PT02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Priced at only $18.99 US, it may seem a...
Nvidia has anounced that Doom III recomends the Nvidia FX cards to play Doom III. NVIDIA is pleased to announce that id Software recommends the GeForce FX family of graphics processing units for DOOM 3. The rich feature set and programmability of GeForce FX GPUs enable the gripping world of DOOM 3 to come to life with real-time dynamic lighting and shadow...
For those of you wondering about the different graphics cards and need a guide, this is pretty helpful. It doesn't have everything on it, but has lots of different cards. Hopefully this will aid in making any graphics card decision you might have. I found this on http://www.tomshardware.com. Here is the guide
The next-generation of Ge-force technology from Nvidia has been revealed at Comdex, a show running in the Las Vegas Convention Center as we speak. Named Ge-force FX (not to be mixed with the similar MX technology) this is the newest addition in the Ge-force era. The NVIDIA® GeForce FX GPU ushers in a new era of graphics and gaming. With the GeForce FX...
It seems as if nVIDIA wants to show off their new and highly anticipated Chip NV30 at the Comdex fair on November 18th. They launched a Countdown-Website right here. If You click on the small "n" in the right corner, You can access a virtual desktop. It seems we get our hands on that card almost as soon as we get our hands on the Game of the Gods :)
A brand new version of Detonator from NVIDIA is released. named Detonator 40 this driver set is promissing us a 25% performance increase on some cards, along with a lot of new features. Here's a brief sum-up of the new features of the Detonator 40: Release Highlights: Up to a 25% increase in performance nViewâ„¢ 2.0 multi-display technology increas...