Carmack on DOOM 3D Performance
John Carmack has been active once more on the Slashdot forums, the site for all things geek (am I the only one who longs for a return to the days when geeks weren’t cool? Or have I been mis-led and they’re still not cool?), this time talking about the performance we can expect on current generation 3D cards when the next DOOM hits the shelf - I suppose that should be whenever the next DOOM hits the shelf.
There are several more Q3 engine games in the works that will continue to run great on existing systems, and Doom is still a long ways off in any case, so there will be a lot more upgrades and new systems. We are aiming to have a GF3 run Doom with all features enabled at 30 fps. We expect the high end cards at the time of release to run it at 60+ fps with improved quality. This is an intentionally lower average FPS for the hardware cross section than we targeted for Q3, but still higher than we targeted Q2 and earlier games (before hardware acceleration was prevalent).
There’s more info to be had in the post, that’s just the one paragraph I could get my head around.
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