Is Doom3/Quake4 going to support TrueForm?

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The Unknown
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I'm Just wonder ing if Doom3/Quake4 is going to support TrueForm?I'm Going to buy a Radeon 8500 card when it is realesed.....

08-22-01 18:29 #

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Lüt
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I'm Going to buy a Radeon 8500 card when it is realesed.....

The worst possible time to buy any piece of hardware.

08-22-01 19:26 #

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The Unknown
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What the hell do you mean it's the worst time to buy one?My crappy GF2 MX can't even play Black&White in 800x640 in res whit the lowest quality (Duron 800 256 MB ram) I like the card really much and i just wondering if Doom3/Quake4 is going to support TrueForm?

08-22-01 19:30 #

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Lord FlatHead
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My crappy GF2 MX can't even play Black&White in 800x640 in res whit the lowest quality

I'm sure you mean 800x600. And I've played Black & White myself on a P3 850Mhz with 128Mb RAM and a lousy TNT2 - and that worked just fine.

08-22-01 19:38 #

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The Unknown
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Really?I'm using T&L and still 30 frames per second in 800x600 >:(.Thats why i'm going to buy a Radeon 8500 to make Black&White run in higher res and 60 frames per second

08-22-01 19:48 #

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Linguica

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What the hell do you mean it's the worst time to buy one?My crappy GF2 MX can't even play Black&White in 800x640 in res whit the lowest quality (Duron 800 256 MB ram)

I have a P3-500 and a TNT2 non-Ultra, and I was able to run it just fine, even with all the bells and whistles turned on.

08-22-01 19:49 #

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AIRmichael
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I run black & white on a 450 mhz processor , 128 mb ram and voodoo 2. Only load time is very slow. But ingame is just ok.

08-22-01 20:39 #

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Zaldron
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Trueform? I'm pretty sure that's not viable. Since the low-poly models use the hi ones as reference/render, how could the video card tessellate the stuff without fucking up the system?

There's a great difference between drawing models in the old engines and doing it in this one. I'll say all those model-specific hardware features won't work well with this scheme. Dunno about vertex shaders, but looks like id's not using them neither...

08-22-01 21:42 #