Zero Time to Spectacle

[Phopojijo]

UT3 isn't direct X10...as far as I'm aware.


Thats the beauty of it, looks a million dollars and runs a million dollars to boot and it's not DX10 :awesome:

Yes it is, the use it for optimizations (like shadowing), and to enable True 64FP_HDR+AA. All in all the benefits are marginal with the exception of the Antialiasing.

I'm a bit disappointed that I can run at maxed settings and native resolution and my framerate doesn't even shutter below 60fps (with SLI disabled running only 1 gpu). They optimized the engine too much, it doesn't make my hardware worth it.

Don't forget, the textures are locked at medium (which I believe is typically what'll be on the consoles).

Setting anything higher than 3 will not increase visual quality. Epic didn't include the higher resolution textures because they're not optimized yet and they wanted the demo to be under a gig. (That being said -- they also didn't turn on PC-specific optimizations -- so it should balance out anyway)

Also --

This is why I keep saying "A native HDR pipeline has benefits" -- you can now *very obviously* see the performance increases from having just a single optimized HDR rendering pipe versus having a standard color range pipe with an HDR pipe ducttaped on.

Yes, even when you turn off *bloom*, its still rendering in 64FP HDR. (Its to help with white balance, relative intensities; it also allows the developers to implement optimizations which would otherwise fail on 256-intensity color algorithms.)