Doom3 on a laptop?

[DoomPlayer]

How well can a laptop play Doom3? Just curious.

[ATilaptops]

Depends on what kind of laptop. It should play fine with a 9700, 1GB of RAM and a 1.6GHz Dothan. I mean no high details or anything but it outgha play acceptably.

[Chow-Yun-Fat]

Laptops are getting pretty powerful. The new dothan chips have a cache size of 2048 and the 9800 mobility should be widespread soon. With a 2.0GHz dothan, 9800M, and 1GB of RAM you should be getting really good performance (equal or better to mid-range desktop performance), all in a less than "desktop replacement" sized package with good battery life (the new dothans are beasts and give you good battery life).

[ATilaptops]

I don't think there will be 9800M's. The new x600, which I may be getting soon is the next mobile gfx card. It is PCI-E and will have up to 128MB, although it's possible up to 256MB, and will give performance on par or better than a desktop 9800 Pro. With that, 1GB of RAM and a 1.7GHz Dothan I will be playing DOOM 3 quite nicely. And the best part is that in a year I can swap out my x600 for a mobile x800 and my 1.7GHz for a 2.13GHz and have enough power to play the latest games without buying a whole new laptop:D

[Saffire]

Well...the 9800M was just announced by ATi, so...I'm sure it'll be more widespread :)

Regardless, I'll install Doom 3 on this laptop and let you know how it goes.

[ATilaptops]

I guess I missed it on their site, odd...

Funny how they rank the x600 higher but I read it has a 128-bit interface but with 16 pipelines whereas the 9800 has 256-bit interface (quad too) but only 8 pipelines. Something seems odd here.

[Kyrgizion]

Well, I seem to be able to run Doom 3 fine on my Acer Aspire 1620 (for my rig, check the lower half of my sig) in 1024x768 - medium or high detail setting...
With "fine" I mean smoothly, only a tiny bit of swapping when opening doors and such. Extracting the .pk4 files with winrar seems to help.

[ATilaptops]

Originally posted by Kyrgizion
Well, I seem to be able to run Doom 3 fine on my Acer Aspire 1620 (for my rig, check the lower half of my sig) in 1024x768 - medium or high detail setting...
With "fine" I mean smoothly, only a tiny bit of swapping when opening doors and such. Extracting the .pk4 files with winrar seems to help.

how much RAM on your 9700?

[Kyrgizion]

64 DDR. I'll update my siggy as well ;)

[ATilaptops]

Originally posted by Kyrgizion
64 DDR. I'll update my siggy as well ;)

That's cool then. So my 64MB 9700, 1GB of RAM and 1.7GHz Dothan (with 2MB of cache which I hear D3 loves) out to run the game fine. Coolness, but I'm still gonna try and get one with an x600:D

[eshbach]

my laptop runs it fine too. I have an A64 3200 DTR.

[ATilaptops]

What kind of gfx you got on there?

[mynameis]

My friend has been playing Doom 3 on a 1.8ghz Desktop with a R8500, low settings, 800x600. I would assume if you just had a 1.4ghz Pentium M with a decent 64mb video card, you could do it.

[ATilaptops]

It occurs to me that D3 isn't that hard to run, unless you want max everyhing:p

[bbock727]

ati.. uve been saying ur getting a new laptop for "at least" a year now.. first you say u can get 3000$+ then 1000$, u change ur mind every second :) which is it !

[rock]

FYI my Dell D600 doesn't run Doom3 at all. It's well below specs (1.6GHz, 512MB, Mobility Radeon 9000), but I tried it anyway. Constant stuttering at 640x480 low detail. I have to say though, 640x480 never looked so good. (As long as you stand still.)

[Vengance_01]

Well I have a Pentium M 1.3GHZ, 64DDR 9000 and 512DDR, and it runs decent:D 640-480, but all the goodies on mid details

[mynameis]

If I had a 64mb video card I would attempt it, but I only have 32mb.

[ATilaptops]

It crashes without CAT drivers but it plays smooth at 10x7 med details on my 64MB 9700, 1.7GHz Dothan and 1GB of RAM.