On DOOM 3 Settings [Jul 26, 2004, 4:07 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Robert Duffy, id Software programmer,
updated his .plan about DOOM 3 settings and how they will work, discussing
specifics about the "ultra" quality setting as well as differences in how
certain data are handled differently by ATI and NVIDIA hardware. He also
mentions that the game is capped at 60 FPS (except when running demos as a
benchmark), discusses the software used during development, as well as a bit on
a hard drive nightmare encountered along the way. Here's a bit:
Image fidelity is dependent on what quality level we load the textures at.
In Ultra quality, we load each texture; diffuse, specular, normal map at full resolution with no compression. In a typical DOOM 3 level, this can hover around a whopping 500MB of texture data. This will run on current hardware but obviously we cannot fit 500MB of texture data onto a 256MB card and the amount of texture data referenced in a give scene per frame ( 60 times a second ) can easily be 50MB+. This can cause some choppiness as a lot of memory bandwidth is being consumed. It does however look fantastic :-) and it is certainly playable on high end systems but due to the hitching that can occur we chose to require a 512MB Video card before setting this automatically.
High quality uses compression ( DXT1,3,5 ) for specular and diffuse and no compression for normal maps. This looks very very close to Ultra quality but the compression does cause some loss. This is the quality that for instance the PC Gamer review was played in.
Medium quality uses compression for specular, diffuse, and normal maps. This still looks really really good but compressing the normal maps can produce a few artifacts especially on hard angled or round edges. This level gets us comfortably onto 128MB video cards.
Low quality does everything medium quality does but it also downsizes textures over 512x512 and we downsize specular maps to 64x64 in this mode as well. This fits us onto a 64MB video card.
Walt C you are obviously oversimplifying the issue of Capitalism vs Socialism!
There is a also the issue of a Socialist country and Democratic Socialism which are two totally different things and of course would hardly be understandable to an average US citizen like yourself. For e.g France is not a Socialist country. It is a capitalist country much like your own.
China is a Socialist country.
If you cant understand the difference between the two than feel free to ignore the rest of this post. The example of overtaxation on Air Conditioning has nothing to do with Socialism or Capitalism or any other -isms. Its government policy. A government that has been freely elected. Unlike the one currently in power in the White House.
I agree that Socialism or rather Kommunism are very dificult to implement but China seems to be doing rather well under this system, dont u think?
And yes people are poorer and a lot of their Political and Personal freedom is lost in the grander sense, but look on the positive sides.
Crime is very low, almost non-existant. There is very little favoritism. There are no social differences (since everyone has a similar income) which leads to less social unrest. Medical welfare is guaranteed to everyone. Equal oportunities at education for everyone (Why do u think the former Soviet Union had the best education system in the world?). etc. etc.
While I agree with you that socialism isnt suited for people today, since corruption and personal greed are inherited together with power, someday perhaps more sensible less greedy and more evolved humans will realise its potential.
There is a also the issue of a Socialist country and Democratic Socialism which are two totally different things and of course would hardly be understandable to an average US citizen like yourself. For e.g France is not a Socialist country. It is a capitalist country much like your own.
China is a Socialist country.
If you cant understand the difference between the two than feel free to ignore the rest of this post. The example of overtaxation on Air Conditioning has nothing to do with Socialism or Capitalism or any other -isms. Its government policy. A government that has been freely elected. Unlike the one currently in power in the White House.
I agree that Socialism or rather Kommunism are very dificult to implement but China seems to be doing rather well under this system, dont u think?
And yes people are poorer and a lot of their Political and Personal freedom is lost in the grander sense, but look on the positive sides.
Crime is very low, almost non-existant. There is very little favoritism. There are no social differences (since everyone has a similar income) which leads to less social unrest. Medical welfare is guaranteed to everyone. Equal oportunities at education for everyone (Why do u think the former Soviet Union had the best education system in the world?). etc. etc.
While I agree with you that socialism isnt suited for people today, since corruption and personal greed are inherited together with power, someday perhaps more sensible less greedy and more evolved humans will realise its potential.
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