Id Recommends Nvidia for Doom 3

March 1, 2004 - 9:00pm

It's official, you need an Nvidia card to get the most out of Id's Doom 3 while you also have to possess an ATI board if you want to enjoy Valve's Half-Life 2 to the full.
Nvidia has secured Id's coveted "recommended for Doom 3" logo for its GeForce FX family of graphics processing units.

For those of you worried about what this recommendation means in practical terms, we are about to reveal its exact significance, pay attention. All new GFX cards will carry a large sticker confirming this recommendation while even more importantly, when the game is released it will have an Nvidia sticker on its box and will most probably feature Nvidia's Way it's meant to be played little trailer when loading. Even though these are shocking changes and extremely important for all gamers, we also want to include Nvidia's official statement which follows:

NVIDIA is pleased to announce that id Software recommends the GeForce FX family of graphics processing units for DOOM 3. The rich feature set and programmability of GeForce FX GPUs enable the gripping world of DOOM 3 to come to life with real-time dynamic lighting and shadow, while raw horsepower delivers non-stop multi-player action at lightning-fast frame rates. Look for this sticker on video cards equipped with a GeForce FX GPU, and witness the mind-blowing detail of the DOOM 3 experience - the way it's meant to be played.

Well if Valve can cash-in(g) on gamer anticipation of its H-L 2 title there is no reason to complain if Id do it too. As far as we know however, you will not get any Doom 3 voucher when purchasing a top-of-the-range Nvidia board.

Follow the download tab above to find the full details on Nvidia's nZone sub-site.

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Id Recommends Nvidia for Doom 3

"2/3/2004I love watching the wars between Nvidia and ATI. Let the savings to the public begin! Hmmm...which board to get...the ATI 9800XT bundled with a copy of HL2 or..get a new Nvidia board that doesnt come with a copy of doom 3. Thats a no brainer "Dude your stupid. These Graphics Cards are made for about 2.00$ a piece in outsourced facilities in Taiwan/Korea/China. There workers will work for less than 25 cents a day so Nvidia and ATI can Take all that extra money from selling a 9800 or 5900 and put it into there pocket. The only Savings your getting is pennies to the 20 dollar bill.

Id Recommends Nvidia for Doom 3

i own a radeon 9800 pro and my mate owns an fx5700 and the games run much better and faster with fx5700. i'm definitely going for the fx! especially with these cool games coming out like ut2004 and doom3. already started saving some money for the nv40.

Id Recommends Nvidia for Doom 3

DeQuosaek: Unreal Tournament 2003 runs faster on 9800? No way. Already compared it with 5200 and the 5200 runs faster! And I wasn't comparing it with a 5900 or a 5950. Try it for yourself so you're not just talking or read about it somewhere.

Id Recommends Nvidia for Doom 3

ya wanna know the difference between the graphics cards...nothing substantial, it all comes down to what materials are used in it...everyone already has the same f**king technology. All the little logos and shit is all marketing promotions...which only advertise basically unnoticable statistics. God some of you are so stupid...

Id Recommends Nvidia for Doom 3

Oh really? Where's your source to confirm that the NV40 is really 16 pipelines? The Inquirer? Nothing has been confirmed. I will wait until the card is out and dissected. The NV30 and NV35 in it's marketing hype claimed the chip was a 8x1 card....we know better now. It's really 4x2. Until the NV40 is out, it's still rumor.

Id Recommends Nvidia for Doom 3

This f*cking asskissing to card manufacturers is a sure fire way to keep people divided. Games are supposed to be fun. If they want to screw people out of enjoying the game only to cater to some then just release the goddamn game on console and get it over with.ATI gets HalflifeDoom3 gets nVidia (which is funny considering how much Carmack stated he detested nVidia and the way they market cards - Guess you can be paid enough cash to change your mind)CARMACK YOU SELLOUT!

Id Recommends Nvidia for Doom 3

Nvidia isn't stupid, they're not going to alienate half the gamers out there by making a game that won't look terriffic on an ATI board! They'd be shooting themselves in the foot. When they say you need an Nvidia board to get the most out of Doom 3, they mean that since Doom 3 was made using Nvidia hardware, the game will look it's absolute best on an Nvidia board. They DO NOT mean that it won't look drop-dead gorgeous on an ATI board! I'm sure it will! Just like Half Life 2 is going to look great on an Nvidia board. Relax, when is ships, it's gonna scare the crap out of us all! You'll see!

Id Recommends Nvidia for Doom 3

Here's the plan:I'm buying a geforce FX 5900 Ultra and a Radeon 9800XTAnd, if I had enough money for that...I'll buy four monitors. Then, a few years from now when it's obsolete, I'll finally get the chance to cash in my voucher for a free copy of Half-Life 2.

Id Recommends Nvidia for Doom 3

lol, this is gonne be so funny for half-life 2 hating, ati loving and doom 3 loving fans. I don't give a shit. I'm looking forward to both games. BUT I'm getting an ati card cause I don't want that fuñking 60hz headache and blindness.

Id Recommends Nvidia for Doom 3

Listen, it doesn't matter what card you have... in some ways.You like ATI! GREAT BUY THE CARD AND ENJOY IT AND WHILE YOUR AT IT SHUT THE f**k UP. If I want to enjoy my Nvidia card I will, I have been doing so for the past 3 years. As far as the moron that said Doom 3 will suck in multi... Are you and idiot... Doom 3 strongpoint is going to be its graphic and putting the player in a totally new experience. If you want multi... UT2K4 will do the job. ATI and NVIDIA are both great cards. It all comes down to prefference, so when you do get one. Please shut up and just enjoy it. The cards will speak for themselves.

Id Recommends Nvidia for Doom 3

ATI Cards will still score higher framerates than Nvidia + Nvidia doesnt know one lightning effect from another + they'll probably cheat and build some kind of overlap into their drivers which sacrifices Eyecandy for Higher framerates.Carmack You Stupid F%ck

Id Recommends Nvidia for Doom 3

lol. anyone who speak good of a 5200 needs a reality check omfg roflmao.and while i belive the move was made because of the new card (i looks kickass) all the 5xxx series are crap if you go higher resolution with AA and AF. sad thing is since you paid so much money for it you have to blind yourself and belive it's good. sad, so sad

Id Recommends Nvidia for Doom 3

Also is it possible to play doom3 online? I have a 10 year old and I would like to set up a little network to play doom3. For a card it has a sweet diamond VGA card with 1MB WRAM.Can't wait to play doom3! How much fps will I get?

Id Recommends Nvidia for Doom 3

All you people bickering over this card that card, write things in which you have no idea what your talking about because you all get your information from other opinionated sources, such as others reviews on MegaGames. Both manufacturers have GREAT cards, both cost arguably the same amount and both run games equally well with marginal and almost unoticable differences. For instance, ATI might get 102 frames per second, while Nvidia gets 100. I garuntee thats unnoticable when cought up in a game and certianly wont be a win or a lose situation attacked with it. Untill you all get your facts straight and understand what things like pixel pipelines, or how many transistors a chip has VS. its clock speed, your all just talking about the card you bought. My personal experience from years of dealing with both companies is driver compatability issues with ATI. I have not had a chance to play with catalysts, and ATI has cleaned their sh*t up since the 9000+ series but in the end with both cards your getting what you pay for. So before some of you post look up some facts and dont blurt out stupid phrases like "lol. anyone who speak good of a 5200 needs a reality check omfg roflmao."Because that just makes you look like a 10 year old kid blurting out what you heard your daddy or little sister say. That is all.

Id Recommends Nvidia for Doom 3

About the companies making huge profits on the graphics cards. True they do make them for next of nothing, but the huge amount of marketing and more importantly research that goes along with creating any such card is huge. So selling you a 20 cent card for 300 dollars is there way of recouping the money back.This is the same with the drug industry, huge research bills and to make there money back and make a profit they sell the drugs for 20x+ there product price.

Id Recommends Nvidia for Doom 3

Well its nice to see the competition between companies like this.... BUT!!! ATI Still have the advantage over nvidia.. Look at the cooling the high end nvidias need compared to a 9800 PRO/ XT... This must prove something!!!! Also ive got a gforce 4 ti4800 and it will beat a gfx 5200 Ultra neday!!! i think its still gotta be a 9800 XT for me! :D

Id Recommends Nvidia for Doom 3

Its funny how many Nvidia fanb0y's are "hahha"ing this was so obviously coming 3 months ago when id was supposedly optimizing for Nvidia to make it run as well as Ati. When the whole time it probably ran close to as well and now that they can show it runs slightly better with optimazations Nvidia will give them a fat paycheck to be endorsed by the first released of the 2 heavyweight fps's of the year. Its all marketing and has nothing to do with the actually card performance, so i guess all us Ati fans should run from the big bad Nvidia marketing department and go buy a FX card. Anyone who believes marketing bs should be shot to thin the population by the way, the numbers still pronounce Ati king atm, which may change with the next Nvidia release but you're a retard if you think this changes that the current Nvidia lineup is a complete joke.

Id Recommends Nvidia for Doom 3

They didn't say it'll run better on GFFX than it will on Radeon9xxx. They just said it's RECOMMENDED. That's kinda lame, since the Doom3 mp demo from quakecon used a back-end software to make it run properly, which ATi's card doesn't need :)Put that aside, id didn't use Cg to build this game, as far as I know, which will make it run kinda lame on GFFX's.Btw, this gfx cards war is getting really funny. Maybe one day it'll be 2 seperate platforms that won't have shared games, just like Mac and PC :)Anyway, the Radeons are still better cuz they built their card by industry standard, and nVidia came up with Cg which failed badly.

Id Recommends Nvidia for Doom 3

Just one thing kids, there is no such word as 'atidiots'. that's just stoopid. the term 'nvidiot' was produced long ago and since then the kids have had to copy us ati lovers and come up with 'atidiot'. i mean, what the f**k does that say? u certainly cant say it without sounding like a complete f**ktard, but then again, that wouldnt be much of a change from the shit that dribbles from most nvidiot's mouths anyway. heh - pwned by teh sobbsmo. now shut up

Id Recommends Nvidia for Doom 3

...its sad.....ati may be faster in some ways ..is it because the dam f**king card converts everything to 24bits I THINK SO ..ye ye reduce quality to improve performance players wont see the diference right u nvidia f**ks? i tested doom3 alpha and the shadows get so so so lame with Radeon 9800XT...its sad ..f**king loosers ...and thank god iam not american and cant right so well vao todos po caralho seus filhos da puta como ati´s ao pekeno almoxo

Id Recommends Nvidia for Doom 3

Idiot eh? How do you expect a game to last when it isnt based on multiplayer. Get with the times singleplayer only goes so far retard. Why has HL been so successful? 5 Years of awesome mulitplayer, multiplayer support, and constant mods. If you think otherwise you are just a moron. Doom3 can have the most awesome singleplayer but after that whats left? That only goes so far. f**king twit.

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