Tim Sweeney Talks Unreal Engine 3

An anonymous reader writes "Following the recent unveiling of Epic's Unreal Engine 3, Beyond3D has interviewed Tim Sweeney of Epic about the next-gen videogame engine. The discussion is mainly about the 3D requirements, but they also touch on other technologies that are used or required: 'Off-the-shelf 32-bit Windows can only tractably access 2GB of user RAM per process. UT2003, which shipped in 2002, installed more than 2GB of data for the game, though at that time it was never all loaded into memory at once. It doesn't exactly take a leap of faith to see scenarios in 2005-2006 where a single game level or visible scene will require >2GB RAM at full detail.'"

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Re:Technology goes forward...

[mahdi13]

I bet Epic and ID Software are making these new engines just to license them to other companies.

Is that really a bad thing? Some of the best FPS games are from these licensed technologies from id and Unreal

the Quake3 engine gave us Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast
The Unreal engine gave us Deus Ex and America's Army

We all know that even if Doom 3 sucks as a game, the engine will licensed and used in an even better game