Half-Life 2

by **soatari** » May 27, 2003 @ 4:39am

I do see your point there... the Doom 3 styled benchmark in 3dMark 2003 is absolutely staggering...

But the Half-Life 2 is probably going to focus on putting more than one character on screen at once :lol:

j/k

I still think that HL2 is looking mightily impressive... the movies do show that the characters themselves have emotions and expressions that have yet to be matched by anything I've seen in Doom 3... but like someone said earlier, they both have completely different engines... one is focusing more on indoor environments with extremely detailed lighting and shading, while the other is focused on high detail outdoor environments with a large amount of characters on screen at once.

Doom 3 is just more impactful because of the lighting, while there doesn't seem to be alot of detail. Half-Life 2 is putting as much detail as they can into every little thing.

I guess it all depends on what your tastes are. Do you like fast paced, eerie, scary shoot-em-ups? Or do you like drawn out story lines with very deep characters and plots, with dramatic scripted events and movie style acting?

by **damian** » May 27, 2003 @ 4:41am

Doom 3 benchmark in 3dmark03? What's that? There's a benchmark of a scene in which people in funny suits shoot other people in funny suits... is that what you're referring to? That's not Doom 3. That's a slideshow.

by **soatari** » May 27, 2003 @ 5:16am

LOL

It runs so poorly because it's a raw version of the Doom 3 engine.

I can get it up to about 12 FPS on my system... or course I'm running on a Geforce 4 ti-5800

by **damian** » May 27, 2003 @ 5:24am

It's not Doom 3... it has nothing to do with doom 3. what the hell are you saying?

And yeah, I have a gf4 ti4200. 10 fps or so average...
GF4 5800? The 5800 is a geforce FX.

by **soatari** » May 27, 2003 @ 5:26am

little typo on my part... I never said it was doom 3. I said it was the doom 3 engine.

ok so i may have said it once... but you know what i mean.

by **Michael Y** » May 27, 2003 @ 5:27am

except that it's NOT the Doom 3 engine...

by **soatari** » May 27, 2003 @ 5:28am

and you know this because....?

by **damian** » May 27, 2003 @ 5:29am

...because it's a well-known fact that nothing based on the doom3 engine is actually released.

by **Michael Y** » May 27, 2003 @ 5:30am

Think about it. What makes you think that Id would license out the Doom 3 engine <b><i>before Doom 3 has shipped</i></b>?

Oh, and I also checked the Futuremark site... I think they'd tell you if it was the Doom 3 engine :roll:

by **soatari** » May 27, 2003 @ 5:32am

Oh yeah... except maybe the doom 3 alpha leak... oh and the fact that id software licenses out their code and engine to other companies for testing on cards and inclusion into benchmarks.

None of the 3d engines in 3dmark 2003 were made by Futuremark. They are licensed from different companies.

by **soatari** » May 27, 2003 @ 5:33am

nvidia has had the doom 3 engine with them for a while... that's one of the suspected areas for the leak of the alpha.

by **Michael Y** » May 27, 2003 @ 5:33am

What does the Doom 3 alpha leak have to do with anything? No professional company is stupid enough to release commercial software based on a leaked version of an unfinished product, or at least I hope.

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