We used NVIDIA’s ForceWare 61.77 drivers for all of the GeForce cards, and we used ATI’s CATALYST 4.9 beta drivers, intended for DOOM 3, with all the Radeon cards. Western Digital WD360GD 10,000RPM Serial ATA hard drive plan update is that DOOM 3’s High Quality mode uses 8X anisotropic filtering.Ĭorsair XMS3500 DDR SDRAM at 400MHz and 2-7-3-3 timings Perhaps the most important thing to take away from that. Duffy explains the differences between the Medium and High Quality modes we used for testing and why things look the way they do. To gain a better understanding of DOOM 3’s image quality modes, you’ll want to read id programmer Robert Duffy’s July 26. This second group was also tested at Medium Quality at resolutions up to 1024×768 with 4X antialiasing, and in High Quality mode. The second group of cards has a little more power, so they were tested at Medium Quality at resolutions up to 1280×1024. On these cards, the game just isn’t playable at higher resolutions or detail levels. The first set of cards was tested at Medium Quality and resolutions up to 1024×768. To segment things a little, I split the cards into two groups like so:
How do these cards compare in DOOM 3? Read on to find out.īecause this comparison includes so many different cards, there’s a wide range graphics horsepower available. I scoured the Benchmarking Sweatshop for cards, and with a little digging and dusting, I was able to come up with two GeForce4 Titaniums, two Radeon 8500 series cards, five GeForce FXs, six Radeon 9000-series cards, one Dustbuster, and even a Parhelia. To find the answer, I’ve assembled an eclectic collection of 17 low-end, mid-range, and former high-end graphics cards and run them through a gauntlet of DOOM 3 performance and image quality tests. These cards may not have the features or horsepower necessary to churn out playable frame rates with the resolution and detail level cranked, but they’ll still run the game. While DOOM 3 is obviously most comfortable running on the latest high-end graphics hardware (especially NVIDIA’s GeForce 6800 series) the vast majority of gamers are equipped with older and more mainstream graphics cards.
W E’VE ALREADY examined DOOM 3’s performance on the newest generation of high-end graphics cards from ATI and NVIDIA, but we’re not done with the game just yet.
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