Unreal Tournament 2K3 Gets Software Renderer

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing out that the official Unreal Technology page has been updated with a software renderer for Unreal Tournament 2K3. This is an interesting step for those gamers with fast CPUs but inadequate 3D cards. The Pixomatic technology powering it was co-developed by Michael Abrash, John Carmack's right-hand man during the development of Quake, and a famous programmer and writer (at Microsoft and elsewhere) way before then.

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Re:Huh?

[Gadzinka]

And a GeForce2 can be had for what, $20? Less than the price of the game. Please tell me who this is for.

For anyone who has video card, not the game card.

My matrox g450 has perfect picture quality in 1600x1200@70Hz, very good Backend Scaller for video and very poor performance in 3D. While it can't compete in 3d speed even with TNT2 it's got better picture quality than several times more expensive GF cards.

If you spend 10+ hrs a day in front of the monitor you do care more about picture quality than 3D speed.

Robert

PS. ATI has much better picture quality than nvidia, but still loses with Matrox.