[Truepop]

Doom 3 is on pre-order at gamespot and ebWorld for pc and it set for first quarter 04.

Where is the Mac OS X version? I see a lot of footage running around with interviews of John Carmack developing on a Apple Display with an aqua interface. didn't Quake 3 ship at the same time? I think Wolf shipped about a moth or two behind but they were shooting for a same day thing about 3 months before the pc shipped.

Just wondering.

PS why are there so many threads about Halo being laggy?

[MindFad]

Originally posted by Truepop:
Doom 3 is on pre-order at gamespot and ebWorld for pc and it set for first quarter 04.

Where is the Mac OS X version? I see a lot of footage running around with interviews of John Carmack developing on a Apple Display with an aqua interface. didn't Quake 3 ship at the same time? I think Wolf shipped about a moth or two behind but they were shooting for a same day thing about 3 months before the pc shipped.

Just wondering.

PS why are there so many threads about Halo being laggy?

Can't wait for DOOM III. It's supposedly still on schedule to ship for the Mac and PC at the same time. That was the plan, I thought. I'll live if it's a little after the PC version.

Why so many threads about a laggy Halo? Because it's a hugely pixel shader-intensive game (i.e., practically everything is bump-mapped). People don't understand that high resolutions, FSAA, and everything having pixel/vertex shaders is going to strain even today's graphics cards. Halo runs better than it ever did on the Xbox (at 640x480, capped at 30FPS). Is it any wonder that the fremrate drops at 1280x1024 with everything maxed, even on a dual G5? No, not really. I've been enjoying it without the pixel shaders on my dual 800 with GF3 at 832x624 without VSYNC. Runs great, though all of the character animations show through since they were animated at 30 FPS—but that's how it was developed; have to live with it. It's still a fun game without all of the fancy graphic effects.

Really can't wait for DOOM III, though. Oh man—that's going to be fun.

[ambush]

Originally posted by MindFad:
Can't wait for DOOM III. It's supposedly still on schedule to ship for the Mac and PC at the same time. That was the plan, I thought. I'll live if it's a little after the PC version.

Why so many threads about a laggy Halo? Because it's a hugely pixel shader-intensive game (i.e., practically everything is bump-mapped). People don't understand that high resolutions, FSAA, and everything having pixel/vertex shaders is going to strain even today's graphics cards. Halo runs better than it ever did on the Xbox (at 640x480, capped at 30FPS). Is it any wonder that the fremrate drops at 1280x1024 with everything maxed, even on a dual G5? No, not really. I've been enjoying it without the pixel shaders on my dual 800 with GF3 at 832x624 without VSYNC. Runs great, though all of the character animations show through since they were animated at 30 FPS—but that's how it was developed; have to live with it. It's still a fun game without all of the fancy graphic effects.

Really can't wait for DOOM III, though. Oh man—that's going to be fun.

Doom 3 is going to be fun, but it really looks like an alien VS predator, but with zombies...

But, I ***can't*** wait for the tactical mods to come out. man. this is going to be so nice.

this reminds me, I have to buy new hardware, my iBook600/eMac700/iMac1000 prolly just won't support it. GRRR.