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Unreal Tournament 3 Performance Revealed

Posted by Zonk on from the winning-the-tourney dept.

Vigile writes "The Unreal Tournament 3 demo will be dropping sometime in the next two weeks. With a launch on the PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and even an in-box Linux client it will definitely be one of the most widely-played titles this holiday. With an early take on the UT3 demo's performance, PC Perspective has put up an article that compares cards from NVIDIA and AMD in both single and dual-GPU configurations to see which are the best performers. It turns out that even mid-range cards are going to be more than capable of playing UT3 at impressive image quality levels."

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  1. UT3 PC Demo is out NOW! by anti-human+1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    get downloading!
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    Fileplanet
    3D Gamers

    I just ripped the links off Voodoo Extreme. reply with more mirrors!

    1. Re:UT3 PC Demo is out NOW! by funkify · · Score: 2, Informative

      Here's a faster (for me) mirror:

      filefront.com

  2. Re:Linux but no Mac? by Ren.Tamek · · Score: 3, Informative

    Gears of War and UT3 are coming to the Mac, according to Epic's Mark Rein. Leaving it out of the news post is just an oversight.

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  3. What? by ahoehn · · Score: 4, Informative

    It turns out that even mid-range cards are going to be more than capable of playing UT3 at impressive image quality levels. Yeah, sure, midrange cards with a $1,000 CPU.

    Seriously. How about some benchmarks with a mid/low range CPU?

    I think I can safely assume that if bits of the demo dropped to 20FPS with a Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme X6800, 4 Gigs of RAM and an Nvidia 8800GTS, there's really no point in even trying on a midrange machine.

    Why can't I find the button to digg this article down?
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    1. Re:What? by p0tat03 · · Score: 3, Informative

      Agreed. Seriously, an AMD 2900XT and a NVidia 8800GTX are not "mid range" cards. Even the 8800GTS is a upper-mid range card that's considerably above most "middies" like the 8600 series, or even the standard 8800 320MB series. It only reaffirms the assumption that UT3 is going to require a behemoth of a machine to look remotely good.

      And I will continue playing TF2 on my old box with a X1600, and it will run smooth as butter and still look great.

    2. Re:What? by nuzak · · Score: 2, Informative

      Having a single 2900 or 88000 is considered "mid-range" on the gamer scene these days. It's seriously out of whack -- not only is the upfront cost high, which I can deal with by waiting a bit, but the power consumptions on these things is outright insane, to the point where it gets really noticeable on the electric bill.

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  4. Re:Xbox 360??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    It is - for a limited time.

  5. Torrent by Nahor · · Score: 2, Informative

    And here is a torrent (I'm getting 200K/s right now)

    http://www.gameupdates.org/details.php?id=1657