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.
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Someone needs to tell all the corporations that their intellectual property is not being stolen by the Chinese.
There is very little favoritism.
There have been numerous reports that one reason for the looming banking crisis in China is officials giving loans for dubious investments to their cronies.
There are no social differences (since everyone has a similar income) which leads to less social unrest.
The Chinese premier very recently announced that combating poverty will be the government's next major goal. There are thousands, if not millions of poor in the outskirts of China's major cities, living in misery.
Medical welfare is guaranteed to everyone.
Except for people with diseases that the government feels should not be treated (AIDS and SARS, for example - though international pressure is forcing the Chinese to take some steps)
Equal oportunities at education for everyone (Why do u think the former Soviet Union had the best education system in the world?).
Is that why the U.S. accepts more foreign students than any other country in the world. While the primary and secondary schooling leaves much to be desired (probably because it is free along the lines of the socialist model), college and University education in the U.S. is the best in the world. No on else is better overall that U.S. universities. Sure there are pockets here and there - like India's Indian Insititute for Technology for coputer stuff, for example. But overall, there is no other system as good as the one in the U.S.
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You cannot make anything fool-proof. The fools are too inventive
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