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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: whabang on November 17, 2004, 08:23:02 AM

Title: WUNDERBAR! (There is no better word for it)
Post by: whabang on November 17, 2004, 08:23:02 AM
When Doom 3 was announced, they told us that they might have to wait with the release until PCs caught up.

Still, some crazy SOB just managed to get playable framerates with a Voodoo2 SLI-setup! :-o
:-D
Title: Re: WUNDERBAR! (There is no better word for it)
Post by: whabang on November 17, 2004, 09:56:41 AM
Stupid me forgot to add a LINK (http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1462)!
:roll:
Title: Re: WUNDERBAR! (There is no better word for it)
Post by: bloodline on November 17, 2004, 10:21:52 AM
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whabang wrote:
Stupid me forgot to add a LINK (http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1462)!
:roll:


Hehehe, ok, lets see soem joker port it to an A500 :-D
Title: Re: WUNDERBAR! (There is no better word for it)
Post by: Effy on November 18, 2004, 09:04:47 PM
What about Genetic Species on OCS ???  :-)
Title: Re: WUNDERBAR! (There is no better word for it)
Post by: Karlos on November 18, 2004, 10:50:25 PM
Im surprised nobody has pointed out that both the A1 and Pegasos have voodoo drivers supporting more powerful voodoo cards than those used to make these screenshots.

It would seem that (albeit minus all that loverly shading) doom3 is feasable for amiga1/peg at least ;-)

Title: Re: WUNDERBAR! (There is no better word for it)
Post by: adolescent on November 18, 2004, 10:59:36 PM
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Karlos wrote:
Im surprised nobody has pointed out that both the A1 and Pegasos have voodoo drivers supporting more powerful voodoo cards than those used to make these screenshots.

It would seem that (albeit minus all that loverly shading) doom3 is feasable for amiga1/peg at least ;-)



Don't forget the 2GHz processor backing it up helps just a tad. ;)

Maybe I need to bust out my SLI setup and see what my 1.8GHz can do.    
Title: Re: WUNDERBAR! (There is no better word for it)
Post by: Karlos on November 18, 2004, 11:02:38 PM
@adolescent

Even so, assuming that a 1GHz G4 fully altivec optimised version could only calculate half the polygons (and frankly I'd expect an optimised version could do better than that), youd still get up to 30fps if those shots are any guide.

Don't forget that doom3 is comparively low polygon - almost all of the detail is in the bumpmapping. Stripped of all of that and you have a managable level of detail.