DOOM PC minimum and recommended specs published

[simonpreston]

I think my bro might be a little disappointed. He is looking forward to this and his rig might not be up to it. He just upgraded is HD 7850 to a GTX 750.

Hate to break this to him but a 750 is not as powerful as a 7850.

[azrael-]

...the thirst for powerful 3D graphics cards all sparked by DOOM...

I believe you confuse DOOM with Quake. There wasn't even the thought of 3D hardware acceleration when DOOM came out. For Quake, on the other hand, ID made an OpenGL executable available at some point (glQuake.exe).

Personally, I'm not too excited about the game. While I've played them all in the past it never was that mindblowing experience for me that is apparently has been for others.

Also, I still firmly hold on to my grudge against the original DOOM for stealing System Shock's thunder. Maybe this also has something to do with the above.

[Zimano]

My 1440p screen will scale lovely to 720p

Doesn't look blurry at all? I've read about pixel doubling when you go to half the resolution but no screens I've used does this If I was going for a 4K screen as a computer monitor I'd also be going for a 50" + screen and would love one that didn't look like turd when I halve the resolution.

[EndlessWaves]

I can't believe there are people out there with 720p screens though. Even bargain basement laptops & ancient CRTs do better than that.

I'd say the vast majority of laptops sold have 720p (1366x768) screens (unfortunately)! Just a quick look at ebuyer shows that the cheapest Windows laptop > 720p is a 17" model with a 1600x900 screen for £423.99, but that's still not 1080p. I don't have numbers to back it up, but I suspect <£400 laptops are by far the lions share of the market, certainly for domestic use.

Except the minimum requirements require a £1000+ laptop with a GTX 980M and HQ processor so cheap laptops are irrelevant and can be discounted in the search for someone running an expensive gaming system on a low resolution 17" monitor.

The only realistic candidate I can think of is people who have connected their computer to older televisions and they're a tiny minority. Minimum specs these days really should be for 1920x1080 as that's what the vast majority of people run at.

My 1440p screen will scale lovely to 720p

Doesn't look blurry at all? I've read about pixel doubling when you go to half the resolution but no screens I've used does this If I was going for a 4K screen as a computer monitor I'd also be going for a 50" + screen and would love one that didn't look like turd when I halve the resolution.

Yeah, I wish AMD and nVidia would add it as an option as the screen manufacturers don't seem inclined to.

[DanceswithUnix]

Yeah, I wish AMD and nVidia would add it as an option as the screen manufacturers don't seem inclined to.

Gah, knew there was something I was supposed to do last night.

I'm sure I just get a momentary warning that I am not on the recommended resolution and the screen scales though for things like the BIOS & boot screens.

[DanceswithUnix]

Doesn't look blurry at all? I've read about pixel doubling when you go to half the resolution but no screens I've used does this If I was going for a 4K screen as a computer monitor I'd also be going for a 50" + screen and would love one that didn't look like turd when I halve the resolution.

OK I tried it, the monitor scaled from 720p to 1440p fine.

I think a 50" screen would give me neck ache looking around it though. This 27" is pretty immersive close up.

[TooNice]

Except the minimum requirements require a £1000+ laptop with a GTX 980M and HQ processor so cheap laptops are irrelevant and can be discounted in the search for someone running an expensive gaming system on a low resolution 17" monitor.

That is not relevant to the post Bagnaj97 replied to though. spacein_vader is surprised that there are people with 720p screens, claiming that even bargain basement laptops (which obviously won't be suitable for the new Doom game) do better than that. Bagnaj97 implied that 720p laptops aren't uncommon even in this day, and I am inclined to agree.
Also, I only what mobile GPU would be able to run the game decently. I am in the market for a new gaming laptop this year.

[Zimano]

OK I tried it, the monitor scaled from 720p to 1440p fine.

I think a 50" screen would give me neck ache looking around it though. This 27" is pretty immersive close up.

This is where a 4K screen gets complicated to me. You want to avoid neck ache and eye strain. You can fix the eye strain part by buying a bigger monitor and neck ache fixed by having the monitor further away. My 27" 1440p I had about 1.5ft away from my face, this 30" screen is 2ft away.

If I got a 55" - 60" 4K screen I'd have it at far side of desk at around 4 - 4.5ft away. This should avoid eye strain even on a game without a scaling UI and not give me neck ache.

[Zak33]

what effects is it going to have to need more grunt than Q4 needed then? An Athlon XP single core at 2gig, half a gig of ram and a Radeon 9800 Pro whipped it along nicely

If it's fast.. which it will be... I'll only be looking down a barrel at a rapid target OR at my own death.. over n over again.