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.)

[Pooky]

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.

That is single handedly the stupidest fucking complaint I've ever heard.

[X3RO SHIF7]

That is single handedly the stupidest fucking complaint I've ever heard.

um not really, the demo doesent look very good IMO, if these settings were actually the true high settings then he means they dumbed the visuals down too much for people with crappier machines - like the demo doesent look as good as previous screenshots released

[Tweek]

um not really, the demo doesent look very good IMO, if these settings were actually the true high settings then he means they dumbed the visuals down too much for people with crappier machines - like the demo doesent look as good as previous screenshots released

did you even play it?

[X3RO SHIF7]

did you even play it?

yeah wasnt impressed, runs maxxed out on my PC and I still prefer 2004

[DaneO'Roo]

You are a fucking retard. You obviously are lying and didn't even play the game.

UT2004










UT3

[Amit]

yeah wasnt impressed, runs maxxed out on my PC and I still prefer 2004

You are a fucking retard. You obviously are lying and didn't even play the game.

UT2004










UT3

PWNED!

[TheGhost]

You really didn't need to quote all of those pictures, did you?

[Pooky]

You really didn't need to quote all of those pictures, did you?

^

Those pictures don't show off the graphics that well anyway, you really need to see it in motion and on a shitty or old PC to truly understand why it's so awesome.

[jahrain]

That is single handedly the stupidest fucking complaint I've ever heard.

Hey I had to find at least something to complain about.