Doom 3 Alpha Leaked

Alex_Ionescu writes "The Doom 3 E3 Demo Alpha has leaked to the public. It looks promising, altough I'm only getting 12FPS on a Radeon 7500. Did anyone else have the chance to play it and could post their FPS? Here are some sites with more information and screenshots: here , here, here, and finally here. "

150FPS on ASCII White

[Anonymous Coward]

This computer truly is a monster

Slashdot...

[Chester K]

...News for Nerds, 0-Day Warez!

You have to love ad placement

[Speedy8]

I wonder if this story has anything to do with the ad at the top of it for a Radeon 9700...

And in other news..

[wahgnube]

And in other news (TOTALLY UNRELATED) today, sales of high end Nvidia and ATI cards goes up by 1000%.

toilets in the game

[npongratz]

http://www.thegameclans.com/doom3pics/high%20res/s hot0054.jpg [thegameclans.com]

Do those urinals have CAMERAS strategically attached to them????? Creepy...

Re:Pretty old, really...

[Moofie]

And that means...what? That you have a really big penis?

Methinks not.

Re:FP

[RyuuzakiTetsuya]

What? Run. Run. Run. Shoot. Shoot. Shoot. Shoot. Kill. Kill. Grab ammo. Grab ammo. Change weapons. Shoot. Shoot. Feel Asshole go from O to . after going down a dark and lonely hall way to find a million imps waiting on the other side.

This isn't good gameplay?

Re:Slashdot...

[isorox]

...News for Nerds, 0-Day Warez!

Nah, more like: News for Nerds, 3-Day Warez

Re:It's Too Bad

[isorox]

I DON'T think that slashdot should be posting mirrors to the leaked alpha

iD was worried about the leak, so they submitted to slashdot to stop people downloading. If a server cant take a 50kb page being slashdotted, what about an xxxMB file?

Uh, this is SO wrong

[dw3ll]

I don't believe slashdot posted this. Isn't it considered piracy in the worst form? Now EVERYONE on the planet will be after a copy (as ever 1/2 the world was not after it already). Sucked that JC's labor of love is exposed to the world in such an incomplete state.

I will get off my moral high horse now and look for a copy :)

Re:You have to love ad placement

[aussersterne]

Why is this modded as funny? It's insightful and informative, if anything.

It's also so obvious as to be unseemly, even for Slashdot.

Re:Not interested...

[Anonymous Coward]

Fact 1: calculating shadows, bumpmapping etc. is very hardware intensive.
Fact 2: you're a moron.

what I wanna know

[abe ferlman]

Will winex run it?

Or am I going to have to install that leaked version of Longhorn after all?

Re:Slashdot...

[SweetAndSourJesus]

Well, if you're sorry that you burst his bubble, why did you?

What is it about good jokes that makes insecure people like yourself feel the need to retalliate with bubble bursting? Can't you accept the fact that someone else said something clever?

Did you just want to be the first slashbot to point that out? Does it somehow validate you to get that oh-so coveted +1, Informative? You, sir, are a loser. A complete and utter loser. I pity you and your family.

You may want to look into seppuku [everything2.com] as a means of avoiding further dishonor.

Thank you for your time, and have a pleasant day.

Your Lord and Saviour,
SweetAndSourJesus

Re:Um...

[Twirlip of the Mists]

This shows a serious lack of respect. For the first time, my opinion of slashdot/taco has dropped severely.

So... you're new here, then?

Re:SWEET!!!!

[furballphat]

What do you think distributed computing is for?

Re:Possible response from iD

[drinkypoo]

Xian> on a positive note, people seem to *REALLY LIKE* the leaked shit"

This reminds me of when I was talking about reaganomics and I said "trickle down? trickle down my ass. uh, wait."

ATI leak

[smallstepforman]

I can imagine the atmosphere at iD headquarters near Dallas right now;
John - "Damn bastards, the ATI folk. They leaked the alpha."
Xian - "We've got to punish ATI somehow for this."
John - "I know, I'll cripple performance on ATI cards. I'll just insert a sleep() function call here and half the framerate when I detect an ATI card. That will teach them."
Xian - "Excellent."

a few minutes later.....

[nebenfun]

John- "One more thing..."
Xian- "Yes?"
John- "I've got missles."
Xian- "Oh really...."
John- "The aerospace tests are going
better than planned."
Xian- "Excellent! I'll get ATI's address."

"Can of worms"

[Anonymous Coward]

That's funny, another poster mentioned the game was leaked to alt.binaries.games.worms...

Hmmm

[tunabomber]

Maybe, before he leaked it, he patched the game so that it was artificially crippled to only run at 12 FPS so that it will spur demand for ridiculously fast video cards.

Hey, I can wear my tinfoil conspiracy hat once in a while, can't I?

best ... line... ever.

[Anonymous Coward]

best... line... evar:
my dad is watching me play, and i shoot one of the monsters with the shotgun... and dood looks dead... and my dad goes:

"SHOOT HIS ASS IN THE HEAD, AND IN THE CHEST!!! --- I BET HE HAS DUAL PROCESSORS!!!" .omg. i almost died.

Re:more like 4-day :P

[Herkum01]

I can just see the John Carmack and his stock broker meeting,

Stock Broker: John, you stocks have been tanking lately, and the whole IT has been hit hard. Your portfolio is starting to get a little weak.

John Carmack: (jumps in a telephone booth, ripes off his shirt to reveal his costume, with an "IT" on his chest) The computer industry is hurting, must get it to rebound. I will create a new game, Doom 3 to save the Industry! They will all have to buy new computers to play it! That will improve my portfolio right?

Stock Broker: Yes!

John Carmack I am on it(leaps out the window flying to his Cubicle of Productivity)!

Re:more like 4-day :P

[Nogami_Saeko]

Let me put it like this...

I got ahold of the alpha demo at around 10am on Friday.

I played it on my GeForce2GTS at around 10:05am on Friday.

I picked up an ATI Radeon 9700 at 5pm on Friday. Thank dawg for leaked Alphas on payday :P :)

Re:Some performance tweaks.....

[epukinsk]

I found the r_enableDoomIII 0 command worked wonders on my machine. Of course, the game looks a lot like a Windows desktop with that setting disabled. Still, I got like 80 fps on my Neomagic 128 card on my laptop. Can't beat that.

Erik

Re:Slashdot...

[azaroth42]

...News for Nerds, 0-Day Warez!

Nah, more like: News for Nerds, 3-Day Warez

Nah, more like: News for Nerds, 3-Day Warez, 5-Day Warez and 8-Day Warez.
with all those repeat stories...

--Azaroth

CIA

[Snardly Dinkerton]

If the CIA were in charge of this the source code would be posted on telephone poles by now, with a "Have you seen me?" headline.

hi jon

[GoatPigSheep]

Jon Carmack: dooming society?

Lets talk about Jon Carmack. Jon is the legendary programmer of such classic PC games as Wolfenstein, Doom, Duke nukem 3d, Quake 1, 2, and 3, unreal, and the upcoming doom3. Jon has single handedly created the genre known as the first-person-shooter. He has also popularized the Direct3d 3d format over Microsoft's competing Opengl format, as well as caused public interest in 3d cards when he first released accelerated quake for the s3 virge chipset. Jon carmack has redefined gaming on PC's.

Now stop for a moment and think... What would have happened if Albert Einstein had worked creating amazing pinball games instead of creating the theory of relativity? Humanity would suffer! Jon carmack is unfortunately doing JUST THIS, using his gifts at computer coding to create games instead of furthering the knowledge of humanity. Carmack could have been working for NASA or the US military, but instead he simply sits around coding violent computer games.

Is this a waste of a special and rare talent? Sadly, the answer is yes.

Unfortunately, it doesn't stop there. Not only is Jon carmack not contributing to society, he is causing it's downfall. What was the main reason for the mass murder of dozens of people in columbine? Doom. It's always the same story... Troubled youth plays doom or quake, he arms himself to the teeth, he kills his classmates. This has happened hundreds of times in the US alone. Carmack is not only wasting his talents and intelligence; he is single-handedly causing the deaths of many young men and women. How does he sleep at night?

Carmack is a classic example of a very talented and intelligent human being that is bent on total world destruction. Incredibly, he has made millions of dollars getting people hooked on psychotic games where they compete on the internet to see who can dismember the most people. I believe there is something morally wrong when millions of people have computerized murder fantasies, and we have Jon Carmack to thank. Carmack has used his superior intellect to create mayhem in society. Many people play games such as quake so much that their minds are permanently warped. A cousin of mine has been in therapy for 6 months after he lost a 'death match' and became catatonic.

It is unfortunate that most people do not realize how much this man has damaged all the things we have worked hard for in America. Jon has wasted his intelligence, caused the deaths of innocent children, and warped this country forever. To top it off, he got rich in the process and is revered by millions of computer users worldwide. Perhaps one day the US government will see the light and confine Jon Carmack somewhere with no computers so he can no longer use his intelligence to wreak havoc on society.