Midway and Epic have released the system requirements for UT3, and it doesn't look half bad. Especially since you've already upgraded your rig for Crysis.
Minimum System Requirements
* Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
* 2.0+ GHZ Single Core Processor
* 512 Mbytes of System RAM
* NVIDIA 6200+ or ATI Radeon 9600+ Video Card
* 8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space
Recommended System Requirements
* 2.4+ GHZ Dual Core Processor
* 1 GBytes of System RAM
* NVIDIA 7800GTX+ or ATI x1300+ Video Card
* 8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space
Wow, the minimum requirements are surprisingly low. Wonder what kind of experience you would have on those specs. My old PC was almost the exact minimum, too bad its in storage about 7000 miles away (it was an athlon 2400+ @ 2.0GHz, 1GB Ram, Radeon 9600XT).
new PC sounds like it will love this.
strange how it almost seems like they are implying that an ATI X1300 will run the game as well as an nvidia 7800 gtx.
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* 2.4+ GHZ Dual Core Processor
* 1 GBytes of System RAM
* NVIDIA 7800GTX+ or ATI x1300+ Video Card
* 8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space
The recommended specks actually impress me, being so low. Only 1 GIG recommended? Really? The video card requirements aren't a huge surprise, but even the processor speed seems a little low for some of the recent games.
Either its a very efficient engine or the game has been scaled back on the PC end so as not to interfere with the console side development. Sadly I am inclined to believe the latter since I've been hearing rumors for over a year that the PC development was done last year and all this delay has been trying to make it work on the consoles.
Roboblitz doesn't run all that smooth on a system with higher specs than that. I suppose you can't really use it as a benchmark, but certainly as some sort of indicator of UE3 performance...?
I wonder if a PhysX card would make it run any faster/smoother.
I agree with Goronmon, the 2.4 GHz Dual Core is pretty damn high compared to other games. Which is surprising considering that a 2.4 GHz Dual Core is more than twice as fast (in a multi threaded scenario) than a single core 2Ghz.
Maybe they make it scale well, because as a multiplayer game, they dont want it to be burdened by slow graphics?
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Nah, 2.4ghz on a dual is pretty high. My +4200 is 2.2ghz, but I could probably overclock to meet the recommended. If Bioshock is any indicator, I expect UT3 to be very playable on my machine, since I ran Bioshock on mostly high settings at 1280.
ahhh feels good I just picked up a new motherboard, RAM and cpu yesterday. will install this weekend: Asus Striker Extreme, Intel Core 2 Duo E6850, 2g Corsair XMS2. Take that Crysis you bitch!
ahhh feels good I just picked up a new motherboard, RAM and cpu yesterday. will install this weekend: Asus Striker Extreme, Intel Core 2 Duo E6850, 2g Corsair XMS2. Take that Crysis you bitch!
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I'll try both games on my work computer and let you know how it goes.
Work PC = Dual Quad core xeons, all 8 cores @ 2 GHz, with 4 GBs ram, and a quadro 3500 or something, probably going to be upgraded to a 4600.
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Originally Posted by Oxonian
The last time someone went around being tolerant of everyone around him, we nailed him to a fucking cross for being a preachy asshole.
* 2.4+ GHZ Dual Core Processor
* 1 GBytes of System RAM * NVIDIA 7800GTX+ or ATI x1300+ Video Card
* 8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space
Why the big jump? I thought that the x19## series had the 3:1 shader pipe ratio, not the lower x1## series? Or is the GTX one of those ripped down versions of the 7800 series?
The minimum specs were actually sold about 6 years ago. I find it kinda impressive that a 6 year old machine will play this game with an upgrade in the video card and that is it. Very cool.
And this game is going to own.
