UT3, runs awsomely even on an old 9800XT!!! (56k might start to have probs)

THis really amazed me. I plan to upgrade my rig in a month or so for Crysis, but for now I have a 9800XT, 3.2GHz P4 and 1GB of ram. Basically min requirments for UT3 plus a little more. Now the demo doesn't allow me to enable the huge ammount of bump mapping and such that I'm sure other cards allow, and of course I don't get shader model 3. However, what the graphic options I do have available, I've been able to max out at 1024 with fairly smooth framerates. Here's a pic (not the best, I went pic happy and didn really know if UT3 saved em in a folder, it didn, so this was the last one I got).

It really isn a good pic to show the game, but as u can see, it does look fairly good and it runs smoothly for a rig thats about 5 years old now and barely above min specs. The Unreal engine is pretty damn insane.

UPDATED PRETTY SHOTS FROM SECOND PAGE (remember, still all running on 5 year old rig, barely above min specs, ingame was higher res at 1024, these shrunk to 640*480):

hmm as far as I know the 6600 meets the specs, so maybe it's a driver issue or something? But yeah, the game is crazily well optomised and scales amazingly. My friend was playing it on a higher end rig then mine, about 1500AUD (maybe $1000 in amerca), fairly new, max 1 year old hardware, and he was literally able to max everything and it looked amazing and ran perfectly smooth.

I'll get some more screens tommorow, that show this better, I'm really very very suprised at the performance.

hmm as far as I know the 6600 meets the specs, so maybe it's a driver issue or something? But yeah, the game is crazily well optomised and scales amazingly. My friend was playing it on a higher end rig then mine, about 1500AUD (maybe $1000 in amerca), fairly new, max 1 year old hardware, and he was literally able to max everything and it looked amazing and ran perfectly smooth.

I'll get some more screens tommorow, that show this better, I'm really very very suprised at the performance.

DriftRS

Thats sweet.

theni be able to run it on my GEFORCE 7100GS 256.

Yeah, it runs and looks kickass. I was on that Chinese/Japanese map yesterday, and, quite simply, it looks incredible. The distant scenery is breathtaking - with the lighting from behind the mountains and that deep valley below... it all looks brilliant. Not to forget the UE3 water effects aswell, that waterfall just looks too damn good. IMO, though this will vary with other people, UT3 looks better/is on par with Crysis.ruuuj

Um no it doesn't. I am in the beta for Crysis and I also played the beta demo for UT3, Crysis still has better graphics.

Here's some more screens I just grabbed, keep in mind this is running on close to the min requirments for this game. Also, I've scaled down the screens a bit for this forum. I'm running at 1024*768 ingame while these have been scaled back to 640*480.

I'd also like to say, the game handles sooo much better then 03 or 04, a tad more like the original UT. The pace seems faster and the controls tighter, which is awsome. The weapons also feel more solid. So yes, getting good UT vibes here, might be return to form for the series.

[QUOTE="ruuuj"]Yeah, it runs and looks kickass. I was on that Chinese/Japanese map yesterday, and, quite simply, it looks incredible. The distant scenery is breathtaking - with the lighting from behind the mountains and that deep valley below... it all looks brilliant. Not to forget the UE3 water effects aswell, that waterfall just looks too damn good. IMO, though this will vary with other people, UT3 looks better/is on par with Crysis.DragonfireXZ95

Um no it doesn't. I am in the beta for Crysis and I also played the beta demo for UT3, Crysis still has better graphics.

I suppose. But, lmao, Crysis runs like a pile of shi7 mate ;) UE3 is WAY better in terms of optimisation, no comparison.

There's a UT2007-er, UT3 demo out? As much as I'd love to play it, I don't even want to think about how it'll run with a system only packing an Athlon XP 1800+, 512 MB of DDR-266, and a 9600 XT. I can't even get a constant 60 FPS in UT 2004 half of the time... ...on the other hand, when I splurge 1700-1850 US$ on a new gaming PC by the end of this month, I probably won't have to worry about performance going by your comments, even on "HOLY *excrement*!" settings.NamelessPlayer

lol that will no doubt max it, my friends PC did and his was no where near that price. Long as ur building it right. I think that might be a Crysis killer :P

[QUOTE="ruuuj"]Yeah, it runs and looks kickass. I was on that Chinese/Japanese map yesterday, and, quite simply, it looks incredible. The distant scenery is breathtaking - with the lighting from behind the mountains and that deep valley below... it all looks brilliant. Not to forget the UE3 water effects aswell, that waterfall just looks too damn good. IMO, though this will vary with other people, UT3 looks better/is on par with Crysis.DragonfireXZ95

Um no it doesn't. I am in the beta for Crysis and I also played the beta demo for UT3, Crysis still has better graphics.

crysis is definately better looking in terms of reality but the two have completely different art directions and as such should not be compared.

[QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"]

[QUOTE="ruuuj"]Yeah, it runs and looks kickass. I was on that Chinese/Japanese map yesterday, and, quite simply, it looks incredible. The distant scenery is breathtaking - with the lighting from behind the mountains and that deep valley below... it all looks brilliant. Not to forget the UE3 water effects aswell, that waterfall just looks too damn good. IMO, though this will vary with other people, UT3 looks better/is on par with Crysis.ruuuj

Um no it doesn't. I am in the beta for Crysis and I also played the beta demo for UT3, Crysis still has better graphics.

I suppose. But, lmao, Crysis runs like a pile of shi7 mate ;) UE3 is WAY better in terms of optimisation, no comparison.

Man, not one of you people again... CRYSIS MP IS A BETA AND SHOULD BE TREATED AS SUCH. Besides, Crysis beta ran pretty well for me.

9800XT,1GB RAM and P4 3.2 max out UT3 @ 1024x768? I have a very hard time believeing this is legit.Indestructible2

he didnt say maxed. he doesnt have sm 3.0 so he cant run some of the more demanding things

[QUOTE="Indestructible2"]9800XT,1GB RAM and P4 3.2 max out UT3 @ 1024x768? I have a very hard time believeing this is legit.inyourface_12

he didnt say maxed. he doesnt have sm 3.0 so he cant run some of the more demanding things

[QUOTE="NamelessPlayer"]There's a UT2007-er, UT3 demo out? As much as I'd love to play it, I don't even want to think about how it'll run with a system only packing an Athlon XP 1800+, 512 MB of DDR-266, and a 9600 XT. I can't even get a constant 60 FPS in UT 2004 half of the time... ...on the other hand, when I splurge 1700-1850 US$ on a new gaming PC by the end of this month, I probably won't have to worry about performance going by your comments, even on "HOLY *excrement*!" settings.DriftRS

lol that will no doubt max it, my friends PC did and his was no where near that price. Long as ur building it right. I think that might be a Crysis killer :P

DriftRS did you play online or offline when you got those decent fps results? If so then there is something wrong with the UT3 engine because I have a ATI AMD Athlon64 3000 2.0ghz/1 gig ram/ ATI X850XT 256mb Pci-ex16 and I get 10-26 fps whenever I try to play online. If I play Instant Action then I get 29-41 fps easy with 12 players on DM.

I tried the following resolutions and each one gave me the EXACT results:

800x600

1024x768

1280x1024

I even lowered the world/texture detail to 1 and get decent fps until I play outside where the vehicles and explosions are or when riding a hoverboard.

the game does look incredible, i love the vivid lighting option and the game feels so solid and i love the sniper rifle.

Yea the Sniper Rifle rocks! I was kinda scared that they'd put in that horrible elektro sniper again....

Loved the Darkwalker!!! it feels just like it should, and it wreaks havok just like the War of the Worlds walkers ^^

Cant wait to get Gears of War (same engine!)

Here are some of my screenies as well. My laptop is a Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7100 @ 1.80GHz, 4.44GHz, 2GB, NVIDIA GeFore 8400 GS, Vista. I ran everything at max and I have a frame-rate in the mid-20s.

[QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"]

[QUOTE="ruuuj"]Yeah, it runs and looks kickass. I was on that Chinese/Japanese map yesterday, and, quite simply, it looks incredible. The distant scenery is breathtaking - with the lighting from behind the mountains and that deep valley below... it all looks brilliant. Not to forget the UE3 water effects aswell, that waterfall just looks too damn good. IMO, though this will vary with other people, UT3 looks better/is on par with Crysis.ruuuj

Um no it doesn't. I am in the beta for Crysis and I also played the beta demo for UT3, Crysis still has better graphics.

I suppose. But, lmao, Crysis runs like a pile of shi7 mate ;) UE3 is WAY better in terms of optimisation, no comparison.

I max Crysis and get about the same FPS maxed on UT3 and Crysis clearly looks better.

Im trying to run UT3 Demo on my new rig.

Specs:

Quad core

8800GTS

4GB Ram

I get a d3dx10_35.dll error. Does anyone have a solution to this problem, because im a really big fan of UT and i want to play the demo today.

Im trying to run UT3 Demo on my new rig.

Specs:

Quad core

8800GTS

4GB Ram

I get a d3dx10_35.dll error. Does anyone have a solution to this problem, because im a really big fan of UT and i want to play the demo today.

IllegalGamer

Go download the latest version of Direct X. That might fix it.

Lol cyrsis fanboys.Av177

Lol Unreal Tournament fanboys.

Amazingly well optimized, I run it on my 8800 gts on max settings, loving it. 60 fps, short load times. :D

It deserves GoTY

Amazingly well optimized, I run it on my 8800 gts on max settings, loving it. 60 fps, short load times. :D

It deserves GoTY

Khanezhyray

It deserves Goty because it's well optimized? Also the textures in that demo is rather shiiit tbh. And TC did u run fraps when you played it? Cause I did, and with my 3ghz,9800xt 1gig ram I got craaap fps at that resolution, between 15-25 and even lower when playing against alot of bots/ppl online.

[QUOTE="IllegalGamer"]

Im trying to run UT3 Demo on my new rig.

Specs:

Quad core

8800GTS

4GB Ram

I get a d3dx10_35.dll error. Does anyone have a solution to this problem, because im a really big fan of UT and i want to play the demo today.

DragonfireXZ95

Go download the latest version of Direct X. That might fix it.

What might the newest version of dx ? Because i run Lost Planet in DX10 and i get no errors.

Hi again guys, sorry kinda went to bed (was 1am) but back now, I'll try an answere some of these questions that popped up.

Hey DriftRS what video settings are u using on the demo?TheCrapp

Maxed at 1024*768 with all the settings it allows my rig to support. So maxed texture and environment detail, maxed post-processing option (though I have no idea what that does exactly), and maxed whatever else was available, although I forget what everything else is. However, even so it can't look as good as it does on newer hardware, it seems the Unreal 3 engine simply doesn't let older rigs enable settings such as the great bump mapping and parallax mapping thats supported by the engine, or shader model 3, but thats more because my GPU doesn't support it.

[QUOTE="inyourface_12"]

[QUOTE="Indestructible2"]9800XT,1GB RAM and P4 3.2 max out UT3 @ 1024x768? I have a very hard time believeing this is legit.Indestructible2

he didnt say maxed. he doesnt have sm 3.0 so he cant run some of the more demanding things

I did max it as I've said before, however only upto what it allows me to max. I suspect there's some options it's hidden from me. Anyway who cares, just have a look at the pics if you want to know how it looks. It's running like that at 1024 fairly smoothly, it's a great engine.

DriftRS did you play online or offline when you got those decent fps results? If so then there is something wrong with the UT3 engine because I have a ATI AMD Athlon64 3000 2.0ghz/1 gig ram/ ATI X850XT 256mb Pci-ex16 and I get 10-26 fps whenever I try to play online. If I play Instant Action then I get 29-41 fps easy with 12 players on DM.

I tried the following resolutions and each one gave me the EXACT results:

800x600

1024x768

1280x1024

I even lowered the world/texture detail to 1 and get decent fps until I play outside where the vehicles and explosions are or when riding a hoverboard.

DeltoidRecon

I'm playing it offline with bots. I didn't think online and off should cause a dif in framerate, the GPU and everything shouldn't be any more taxed with online play. infact without the AI calculations the CPU shouldn't even have to do as much. Odd, but I'll try out online and see what happens.

[QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"][QUOTE="IllegalGamer"]

Im trying to run UT3 Demo on my new rig.

Specs:

Quad core

8800GTS

4GB Ram

I get a d3dx10_35.dll error. Does anyone have a solution to this problem, because im a really big fan of UT and i want to play the demo today.

IllegalGamer

Go download the latest version of Direct X. That might fix it.

What might the newest version of dx ? Because i run Lost Planet in DX10 and i get no errors.

[QUOTE="ruuuj"]Yeah, it runs and looks kickass. I was on that Chinese/Japanese map yesterday, and, quite simply, it looks incredible. The distant scenery is breathtaking - with the lighting from behind the mountains and that deep valley below... it all looks brilliant. Not to forget the UE3 water effects aswell, that waterfall just looks too damn good. IMO, though this will vary with other people, UT3 looks better/is on par with Crysis.DragonfireXZ95

Um no it doesn't. I am in the beta for Crysis and I also played the beta demo for UT3, Crysis still has better graphics.

[QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"][QUOTE="IllegalGamer"]

Im trying to run UT3 Demo on my new rig.

Specs:

Quad core

8800GTS

4GB Ram

I get a d3dx10_35.dll error. Does anyone have a solution to this problem, because im a really big fan of UT and i want to play the demo today.

IllegalGamer

Go download the latest version of Direct X. That might fix it.

What might the newest version of dx ? Because i run Lost Planet in DX10 and i get no errors.

That .dll file is definately from DirectX. I've gotten that error before, I just searched google for the latest update of Direct X and it was fixed.

That's pretty crazy... maybe there's still hope for PC developers actually optimizing their games.Funkyhamster

I'm not surprised, all of Epic's games have had amazing optimization.

I knew of people in the UT2004 community running on integrated graphics chips...

Only problem I have is major stuttering in he first few seconds of the match, anyone know how to fix this?V4LENT1NE

Are you running with an nVidia card? Apparently, a shader optimization issue has been causing hiccups for some. There's an .ini edit that could potentially fix the problem for you. I'll try and find it and edit my post.

Edit: See here. Read the first post to find out how to edit your .ini, then read the 2nd post for a potential fix for your problem.