System requirements...

[Tidenburg]

Preliminary UT3 System Requirements

Minimum Requirements

CPU: 2.8Ghz
RAM: 512MB
Graphics: Geforce 6 series

Recommended System

CPU: 3-4Ghz
RAM: 1024MB
Graphics: NVIDIA 6800GT/Ultra or 7800GT/GTX SLI


UT3 Technical features and requirements
* Dual-core CPU: Multi-threading is supported and should provide much better performance
* 64-bit version to be available with better textures
* Renderers: SM3.0, 2.0, possible DX8 renderer
* HDR supported
* Physics: Novodex Physics Engine
* AGEIA PhysX PPU supported.

[Succubus Dryad Of The Undying Comet]

I want it to be on DX8 for uber-performance.

[Gs.SubMaFioZo.]

Preliminary UT3 System Requirements

Minimum Requirements

CPU: 2.8Ghz
RAM: 512MB
Graphics: Geforce 6 series

Recommended System

CPU: 3-4Ghz
RAM: 1024MB
Graphics: NVIDIA 6800GT/Ultra or 7800GT/GTX SLI


UT3 Technical features and requirements
* Dual-core CPU: Multi-threading is supported and should provide much better performance
* 64-bit version to be available with better textures
* Renderers: SM3.0, 2.0, possible DX8 renderer
* HDR supported
* Physics: Novodex Physics Engine
* AGEIA PhysX PPU supported.

Look's like DA System Requirements X( ahh.... i think not soo many people can play that...

[frvge]

Then start saving money ;D. You have till Christmas and probably even longer (mid 2008?). By then we'll have 7000+ processors. (although named differently).

[Tal]

wouldnt it be easier to use an engine that is less technical to support those who dont have the high tech computers? wouldnt that save a whole lot of time and make it easier to find programmers? I would upgrade my computer just for this game if it does have high requirements but alot of people would like to have the option for low specs...

[Tidenburg]

No, this is like whining a XB360 game isn't out on the Xbox. Time change and technology advances, deal with it. You have probably a year - few years to upgrade your PC.
Don't use dell! They scam. You want to buy your upgrades directly from a manufacturer. To find the original prices of a pc part you half the retail (store) price, this will give you the "middle mans" price. Then you half it again to get how much it cost directly from the manufacturer.
crucial.com
make their own stuff and so sell it cheap. There are many more sites like this on the net.

[Tal]

dude I know where to buy stuff from and im not whining just thinking to myself that alot of people didnt go to DA because of the high specs on dat so itll get a whole lot more people in the game if it has an option for lower specs. Just because you are willing to pay 1k a year on upgrading your computer doesn't mean everyone else is.

[Bionic-Blob]

1k a year? where the hell did you get that from.

[Tidenburg]

Spark 1K is enough to get you a new pc. You could easily stay in the required spec's for just about Ã,£200 a year. DA specs weren't incredibly high, just the programming in the game itself was very sloppy.

[frvge]

I buy a new medium-to-high-end PC every 3-4 years (=1500 euros). After 2 years I usually have an upgrade of something (=200 euros).
Total cost 1700 for 4 years. is 425 euros a year. That's close to 200 pounds.

I might get a new one for Crysis and UT3. Now on a 3400+, 1GB, 6800LE... Not too good, but it's got SM3.

[Tal]

thats 575USD a year frvge. And you dont buy any programs with that? how about the games themselves? or the costs to fix parts and such if you made the computer yourself... Itll add up to abit less then 1k a year wont it?

[Tidenburg]

Fix parts? How do you break them, parts are not as breakable as the companies make out they are. Making a PC is cheaper. You say you  know where to buy the parts from yet you insist that it would cost 1K? Also, even though the Ã,£ is worth 2 $'s prices are usually the same (somthing will cost $100 where you are will cost like Ã,£85 here) in pc stuff because its all imported :P

[Tal]

fix parts = parts break. I had my graphics card break for no reason last year. I had my monitor nearly on fire for no reason again 2 years ago... thats what I mean.

I dont insist it costs 1k. I thought it would get pretty close to that to have computers as good as they come to these days but apparently from what your saying its not. Ok then if its as cheap as you say ill say the same thing as i said from the start: Ill upgrade for the game.

[Overstatement]

Time change and technology advances, deal with it.

That is such BS. The first game I couldn't run was Battlefield 2. Someone explain to be why a computer that runs Doom3, Quake4 and every game before that, can't run Battlefield 2 and BF 2142.

What's the second game I couldn't run? Get ready for this, it's vietcong2! That's right, it's a conspiracy by game developers to sell video cards that you didn't really need.

And let's not forgot the Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. Surely, I can't play this and I couldn't :(...until Oldblivion ported the shaders over. I can understand if some developers want to use the latest and coolest shaders for their game, but give us an option to lower the graphics so we (the losers) can enjoy the game too! Look at this. The top picture is oblivion on "Ultra Low" settings, it requires 2.0 shaders. Bottom picture is Oldblivion and requires 1.1 shaders. I'd rather be playing with 20fps than not at all.

[Succubus Dryad Of The Undying Comet]

Same here - my PC runs CT on highest settings (res 1024x768 - my monitor suxx)
But it gets like 5-10 FPS on lowest settings in DA... conspiracy???