Doom 3 on a new 20" iMac

[harveypooka]

Any ideas on how Doom 3 will run on a new 20" iMac? I'm getting one with a gig of RAM and am wondering whether Doom is worth a purchase.

[Dont Hurt Me]

It should be fine, not stellar but fine .its got eneough in the hardware dept. It wont look as good as my Aurora 6800GT but it will look good. X600 series is very solid and mated to a new 2.1 G5 it should be very sweet. Hardware isnt going to hold you down anymore in iMac. Its taken years but they now have pretty darn good all around performance and the video isnt bottom tier anymore.

[harveypooka]

What sort of graphics settings and what sort of frame rates, approx? A friend with a PC, 2.8ghz P4, 512MB and a decent graphics card (can't recall the make....128MB at least...I think around £200 mark, so not bad) gets quite poor performance. A lot of stuttering. I couldn't bear that...!!!

[dollystereo]

I have a dual G5 2.3 2.5GB ram, the old one =(, with the Radeon 9600 that is almost the same thing that the X600, and the game is playable in 800x600.
Dont expect to play in 1680x1050, if you do you will get 3fps for sure.
Good luck.

[eXan]

I have a dual G5 2.3 2.5GB ram, the old one =(, with the Radeon 9600 that is almost the same thing that the X600, and the game is playable in 800x600.
Dont expect to play in 1680x1050, if you do you will get 3fps for sure.
Good luck.

Yes X600 Pro in 17 inch model performes only slightly better than 9600 in rev. B iMacs, but X600 XT in 20" is much faster http://barefeats.com/im21b.html

[jiv3turkey748]

it should run great it runs very good on the imac in my signature

[biohazard6969]

ok, i have just the demo, i'm gunna buy the full after christmas. but it runs really sloppy on my iMac, to be honest i expected a lot more, framerates can be anywhere from 8-60, and this is all only on the default settings (not allowed to change them in the demo) this is all on the iMac in my sig (G5) i don't know....is there something wrong with mine..? i really expected better

[Lord Blackadder]

ok, i have just the demo, i'm gunna buy the full after christmas. but it runs really sloppy on my iMac, to be honest i expected a lot more, framerates can be anywhere from 8-60, and this is all only on the default settings (not allowed to change them in the demo) this is all on the iMac in my sig (G5) i don't know....is there something wrong with mine..? i really expected better

LOL, funny but I'm getting pretty similar low/high FPS numbers on my 1.4GHz PowerMac G4 (see sig), which is a good bit slower than your computer (of course the default settings are lower too. ;) ). I expect that between in-game tweaks and the ATI Displays control panel (you did download and install that, right?) you'll see significant improvement with the full version.

[eXan]

ok, i have just the demo, i'm gunna buy the full after christmas. but it runs really sloppy on my iMac, to be honest i expected a lot more, framerates can be anywhere from 8-60, and this is all only on the default settings (not allowed to change them in the demo) this is all on the iMac in my sig (G5) i don't know....is there something wrong with mine..? i really expected better

Maybe you should set CPU to "Highest"?

[biohazard6969]

I expect that between in-game tweaks and the ATI Displays control panel (you did download and install that, right?) you'll see significant improvement with the full version.

ok, first off, the processor is set to highest. second what do you mean in-game tweaks. and no i didn't download the "ATI Displays control panel" would you mind telling me what it is and where to get it though?

[eXan]

ok, first off, the processor is set to highest. second what do you mean in-game tweaks. and no i didn't download the "ATI Displays control panel" would you mind telling me what it is and where to get it though?

Maybe look on ati.com? ;)

[biohazard6969]

Maybe look on ati.com? ;)

ooooooooook so i found and downloaded the app. i open it and it says unknown ATI graphics, and it just gives me a profile and info about the card that are already avai8lable in the system profiler....what the hell is this thing supposed to doi for me anyways???

[biohazard6969]

ok i went to the ati guide for the app, and i guess it isn't recognizing my card because i only have two things on the left panel, nothign that i can use to tweak the system, any ideas on how i can get it to recognize my card? is it in need of an update?

[slooksterPSV]

The iBook in my siggy gets (on the demo, lowest settings) 24FPS average.

[harveypooka]

I just downloaded the demo of Doom 3 on my lass' eMac. Not bad - impressed actually that it can run it fairly smoothly. Obviously it runs on LOW and 640x480 but still playable. I can't wait for my new iMac...it shipped 3 days ago...