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    Doom 3 on a Toshiba, special

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by hobbes2834, Oct 4, 2004.

  1. hobbes2834

    hobbes2834 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have the Toshiba special edition. It comes with pent. m 1.7, 512mb, nvidia geforce fx 5200 64mb. Is that enough to run Doom 3? or will i have to turn down the settings and make it look ****ty.
    Thank you
     
  2. Andrew Baxter

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    Yes, you'll be able to play it but not having the latest vid card and under 128MB of RAM means you won't be able to set it at the absolute highest setting...it'll probably be decent for you though, here are the sys requirements:

    3D Hardware Accelerator Card Required - 100% DirectX® 9.0b compatible 64MB Hardware Accelerated video card and the latest drivers*.

    English version of Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP
    Pentium® IV 1.5 GHz or Athlon® XP 1500+ processor or higher
    384MB RAM
    8x Speed CD-ROM drive (1200KB/sec sustained transfer rate) and latest drivers
    2.2GB of uncompressed free hard disk space (plus 400MB for Windows® swap file)
    100% DirectX® 9.0b compatible 16-bit sound card and latest drivers
    100% Windows® 2000/XP compatible mouse, keyboard and latest drivers
    DirectX® 9.0b (included)
    MULTIPLAYER REQUIREMENTS:
    Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) play supported
    Internet play requires broadband connection and latest drivers
    LAN play requires network interface card and latest drivers
    Important Note: *Some 3D accelerator cards with the chipset listed here may not be compatible with the 3D accelerator features utilized by Doom 3. Please refer to your hardware manufacturer for 100% DirectX 9.0b compatibility. This product does not support Microsoft® Windows® 95/98/ME or NT.

    SUPPORTED CHIPSETS:
    ATI® Radeon(tm) 8500
    ATI® Radeon(tm) 9000
    ATI® Radeon(tm) 9200
    ATI® Radeon(tm) 9500
    ATI® Radeon(tm) 9600
    ATI® Radeon(tm) 9700
    ATI® Radeon(tm) 9800
    All nVidia® GeForce(tm) 3/Ti series
    All nVidia® GeForce(tm) 4MX series
    All nVidia® GeForce(tm) 4/Ti series
    All nVidia® GeForce(tm) FX series
    nVidia® GeForce(tm) 6800
     
  3. jfafimtu

    jfafimtu Notebook Geek

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    The thing about Doom 3 is that even if you have it at the lowest quality graphic settings, it'll still look pretty decent.