Well...We might not be having a Doom fest after all...

[Khephra]

I can play the game on my mother's machine, but not this one. That means no internet play for me for a few months at least.

An Nvidia GeForce 3 graphics card or ATI Technologies 8500: Column author Dwight Silverman says that given the game's demanding visuals, serious gamers should splurge for a GPU from Nvidia's GeForce FX or 6800 line or ATI's Radeon 9800 or X800 series. He says more frugal PC owners can make do with a GeForce 5900XT or a Radeon 9600XT.

A 1.5-gigahertz Intel Pentium 4 chip or AMD Athlon 1500: Though these will run the game, Silverman suggests a 2GHz Pentium or equivalent, with the "ideal" processor being 3 GHz or over.

384MB of memory: Again, Silverman stresses that this is a minimum requirement, and he recommends 512MB at least, with 1GB preferred.

Two GB of hard drive space:. Four GB is suggested if your PC is running low on free space.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/doom3/news_6103036.html

[politicat]

1. Do you have a computer recycling or chop shop around?

Those are pretty common things, these days, but for the chipset.

You might be able to get them used...

Or pick another game, one that is not intended to make Intel Money.

Pcat

[Khephra]

2. Like I said, I can play it on the other family computer

But I can't imagine that we will have Doom parties with those numbers.

[qazplm]

3. the only good thing about being sent to IRaq

is that I will come back in a year with about 40-50K in savings. Which of course I will in part use to buy a kick butt computer to play Doom and other new video intensive wonders.