#Doom 3 demo full screen windows 8 1080p

#Doom 3 demo full screen windows 8 1080p

Sure, I could play the game on “Ultra” at 1280 x 1024 again, but I wanted the full 1080p experience. To my dismay, the only resolutions available to choose from were non-widescreen. Once I downloaded the game via the Steam client, I immediately fired it up and went to the graphics options. With this newer hardware, I knew I’d have no problems running Doom 3 on “Ultra” with fast framerates.

I had a great gaming experience at the time, but even with the newer video card I couldn’t run the game on “Ultra” settings without serious drops in frame rate.Įnter 2011, my 24″ 1080p flat panel LCD, and an ATI Radeon™ HD 5870. At the time I was rocking a 19″ CRT from Dell, which was an awesome monitor at 1280 x 1024 resolution. Back in the day (am I really calling 2005 “back in the day”?) my GeForce4 Ti 4600 couldn’t really handle the brand-spanking-new “id Tech 4” engine that Doom 3 used, so I went out and bought a mid-range GeForce 6600 GT that did the trick very nicely. I hadn’t played Doom 3 since 2005 or 2006, so I figured I’d give it another go. One of my latest purchases was the QUAKECON pack that included a smorgasbord of games from id Software and Bethesda Softworks for pennies on the dollar. When you couple this to the fact that I’m a sucker for video game package deals on Steam, you can see how I end up playing a lot of older PC games. One of the great things about playing PC games that are a few years old is the fact that you can usually crank the graphics up to the max and still get a silky-smooth framerate.