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#1 zuriku

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Posted April 20 2011 - 06:52 PM

Well one of the things im really worried about is if it doesn't come out onto the Console market place- Is will i be able to play it.

The most high performance game i can play is TeamFortress 2, on the lowest settings and everything is smooth as silk.

It would be awesome if you could switch off/low on just about everything or in great amounts.
Just as BattleField Play4Free I was able to play the game but on low settings. It sucked but i was still able to play it.

So what i'm basically worried about if it'd work on a computer like mine.

Of course we don't know yet because the game is not even out, But should i be worried?

#2 Dizet

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Posted April 20 2011 - 07:13 PM

No. Don't worry. The Unreal engine is really flexible and will run on "low end computers". By the way .....put a $150 video card in ya box and your "low end computer" will disappear !!!
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#3 TMRNetShark

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Posted April 20 2011 - 07:19 PM

I mean, if appeal really goes up throughout the development process, I'm sure they will order a developer's PS3 and/or Xbox 360 to port it. As of right now, I believe it's just making, developing, and having ideas be put into the games... optimization and porting comes much later.
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Posted April 21 2011 - 06:45 AM

Dizet said:

No. Don't worry. The Unreal engine is really flexible and will run on "low end computers". By the way .....put a $150 video card in ya box and your "low end computer" will disappear !!!

Haha, my high end computer has a $500 graphics card and 8 cores. I think I can handle it.

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Posted April 22 2011 - 09:16 AM

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Haha, my high end computer has a $500 graphics card and 8 cores. I think I can handle it.

HORRAY! WE'RE SAVED!

#6 mudpuppet

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Posted February 06 2012 - 06:20 PM

NECRO said:

Zero said:

Haha, my high end computer has a $500 graphics card and 8 cores. I think I can handle it.

HORRAY! WE'RE SAVED!

lmao!

so glad this will not require an upgrade / +++ for the use of the unreal.engine
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#7 Devastator

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Posted February 06 2012 - 06:55 PM

If your comp runs on anything higher than an 8800GTS you should be alright. That's a big if though, the engine could have been heavily modified since the days of UT3. A good way to know would be to check the system requirements of recently released games using Unreal Engine 3. Mass Effect 3 should be a good starting point.

#8 Naraklok

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Posted February 06 2012 - 08:29 PM

As I've stated previously:

Naraklok said:

This game will be reason alone to upgrade/build your rig.

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Posted February 06 2012 - 10:32 PM

I seriously hope this game isn't much CPU demanding.
Games from 2010-2011 that don't look that good are demanding lots of CPU for who knows what, having stuttering and bottlenecking, while a 2007 game like Crysis that is still the best looking videogame to date runs smoothly on a dual core.

#10 Naraklok

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Posted February 07 2012 - 03:31 PM

Well, considering the engine their using....it shouldn't be too problematic.
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#11 RAYU

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Posted February 07 2012 - 08:50 PM

I hope not have to buy a new gpu fot the beta to playit on high, but is my plan to buy a new one at the end of the year when hawken is released.

#12 Naraklok

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Posted February 07 2012 - 09:26 PM

Prices on GPUs tend to drop quite dramatically over a years time.

So I guess it just comes down to how much you want to participate in the beta and how long you can hold out waiting.

If it was me I would probably buy the new GPU now and be prepared and not look back. After a year though I will somewhat regret my decision of course - but with a game like this it would be really tough to regret.
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#13 RAYU

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Posted February 08 2012 - 01:01 AM

I'll wait until kepler arrives, then make my decision. But now i'm stuck with my old gtx 460 sli, since i fried out my gtx 560ti so i cant do and sli of 560 anymore hehe.

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Posted February 08 2012 - 02:08 PM

I don't know what you guys are saying about it not needing much. Tribes ascend is running on UT3 engine and it's horribly optimized. It's a beta so optimization most likely will be extremely poor. I know people that run tribes ascend on i5 2500k with a radeon hd 6950 on low and they get 40-50 fps. With my nvidia 9800gt I have to change settings to get 30-40 fps on low.
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#15 Devastator

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Posted February 08 2012 - 02:20 PM

Gotta keep in mind that UT3 came out late in 2007. The engine/UDK have been improved/modified a lot since it's official release allowing for better graphics/lighting/physics. But all this takes it's toll on a computer, especially one that only has an onboard GPU.

#16 Naraklok

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Posted February 10 2012 - 06:19 PM

I'm sure some system requirements will be provided during beta or before the actual release. Below is the system requirements for UT3 given at it's release.

Minimum System Requirements
- Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
- 2.0+ GHZ Single Core Processor
- 512 Mbytes of System RAM
- NVIDIA 6200+ or ATI Radeon 9600+ Video Card

Recommended System Requirements
- 2.4+ GHZ Dual Core Processor
- 1 GBytes of System RAM
- NVIDIA 7800GTX+ or ATI x1300+ Video Card
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#17 Rsllxs

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Posted February 12 2012 - 07:36 PM

This thread makes me feel good inside  :)
So this is how the world ends?

#18 The_Silencer

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Posted February 13 2012 - 08:08 AM

Just as side note... Hope the game allows switching off nvidia PhysX features ( incase it uses any... ) for the sake of those lower end computers.

I've been insisting on settings and more settings for the sake of this game. That's the way.. aha aha! :D


Edit: Just to remind you on posting your GPU model in here.

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#19 ForrestFire

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Posted February 13 2012 - 08:30 PM

Naraklok said:

I'm sure some system requirements will be provided during beta or before the actual release. Below is the system requirements for UT3 given at it's release.

Minimum System Requirements
- Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
- 2.0+ GHZ Single Core Processor
- 512 Mbytes of System RAM
- NVIDIA 6200+ or ATI Radeon 9600+ Video Card

Recommended System Requirements
- 2.4+ GHZ Dual Core Processor
- 1 GBytes of System RAM
- NVIDIA 7800GTX+ or ATI x1300+ Video Card

Here is tribes ascend min requirements which is running the same engine. UT3 has changed since release, and it seems to be needing more power. The detail in hawken is quite intense so i'm expecting to see it being quite gpu heavy.
Minimum requirements
OS: Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista or Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or Althon X2 2.7 GHz
RAM: 2GB (XP), 3GB (Vista, Win7)
Graphic card: ATI or Nvidia graphics card with 512MB video ram or better and Shader Model 3.0+ support. (ATI Radeon 3870 or higher, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT or higher).
Sound card: DirectX compatible sound card
Hard drive: 10 GB free
Recommended system requirements
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU
RAM: 4GB
Graphics card: ATI or Nvidia graphics card with 1GB video ram or better and Shader Model 3.0+ support (Nvidia GeForce GTX 560+ or ATI Radeon 6950+).
Sound card: DirectX compatible sound card
Hard drive: 10 GB free
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