Gears of War 2.... I mean Unreal Tournament 3 COMMETH!!!!

[W1nTry]

Please excuse the use of a console game to herald the coming of the HIGHLY ANTICIPATED, SURE TO BE A BEST SELLER, KICK @$$ title otherwise known (previously) as UT2K7 now Unreal Tournament 3. The reason I used GOW was because its built on the Unreal 3 Engine and gives insight into what UT3 will look like. GOW is GORGEOUS in its full 1080i/p or 1280x1024 goodness and UT3 will certainly surpass it with the extra power PCs have available to them today. Sure you'll need a DX10 card... and SURE you'll need Vista.. but in addition to crysis, this is prolly the ONLY other reason to cough up the money to get the new bloated OS. Check out the site HERE

And for your viewing please a screenshot or 2 (FULL size 4MP shots available on the site):


You can also download the HD trailer at the website. So check it out

[rb]

was it actually stated that it would require vista  and dx10 ?

[TrinireturnofGamez]

 sure its vista only? Its been in production for quite a while and meant to be run on DX9 cards like the 7900s...

[Berzerk]

Hasnt unreal always been very scalable?

I remember runin ut2k4 on a machine with a weak onboard video card.


 I really doubt its vista only and dx10. At most it might require shader model 3.0

[TheApprentice]

^I hope not!!!

I don't have sm3.0 on my desktop

[Arcmanov]

Vista who?

Come on people.

Not for a MOMENT did I think this was going to be Vista only.
I certainly have not seen that 'written in stone' anywhere.....

[TheApprentice]

Its not Vista only...

Heard it from the developers themselves in an interview earlier this year...

They said if you could run UT2K4, most probably UT3 will work...

[W1nTry]

Well it perhaps won't be Vistaonlycentric but will probably look better with DX10 than its predecessor:

Unreal Tournament 3 is Vista DX10 compliant

Yet more goblin-bashing

By Wily Ferret: Friday 11 May 2007, 09:33
WHILE THEO waxed lyrical about the upcoming release of Unreal Tournament 3 yesterday, the one thing he forgot to mention was that the game will be DX10 and tied to GraphZilla's TWIMTBP programme.

We first saw the game in action at the GeForce 7 launch here in France, and got the opportunity to speak with Epic MegaHoncho Mark Rein, who seemed pretty happy with the way the game was progressing. That was a long time ago now, and since then, a number of Xbox 360 titles have shipped using the titular graphics engine, whilst UT3 itself has been stuck in game development hell.

Gears of War, the most high profile UE3 title, was developed and tweaked for the ATI Xenos architecture in the Xbox 360, but the creators of the engine, it seems, have been working closely with Nvidia for its first outing on the PC. This isn't really a big surprise - UT2004 was heavily branded with Nvidia logos.

So if you want the best out of Unreal Engine 3, it seems like you're going to need to be running Vista with an 8800. As Theo said, expect this to be a majorly popular benchmark - but with the release date still to be set in stone, don't hold your breath. µ

[TrinireturnofGamez]

'DX10' games for this year won't  see any big improvement over dx9 cards except in performance.. Most of them aren't built with DX10 from the ground up, they just added support for a few features here and there , just better versions of what DX9 does already, longer shaders etc.
   
   Unreal Tournament 2007/ 3 's engine was more or less complete in 2006 , Kaizen said he got a demo disk of it that ran on his 6200 at the time , Plus its optimized to run on the DX9 of the PS3, it shouldn't really have any big improvements with a DX10 card other than one or two features that are easy to implement . 
   I don't think any developer would make a Vista only game besides microsoft (to promote vista) , so there should be no worries.

[W1nTry]

Trini thats alot of talking out ur.... but its nothing unusual. DX10 has alot of improvements over its predessor most of which dare I say are not 'easy' to add on. As for DX10 only, last I checked Crysis is DX10 only and seeing as there is presently no MS DX10 wrapper to get DX10 working on XP, we're stuck there. What D10 will allow in the game are better effects which is the point really. Not only that but DX10 interacts very differently with the OS as did DX9 in XP, so to say these are 'easy; to add on is underestimating the overhead on such an undertaking. Yuh think they delayed the release of UT3 cause they wanted to? NO its cause the development process takes longer, esp with adding more functionality. Either way this game is gonna ROCK

[TheApprentice]

Either way this game is gonna ROCK

Hell Yeah!

[TrinireturnofGamez]

 what i meant was that the features that ARE easy to implement with DX10 , like just making a longer shader that would slow down a dx9 card would be implemented more likely than them trying to do the harder features that would really make DX10 stand out , and Vista worth it .

 And Crysis  DOES support dx9 , why don't you try and appreciate what i say instead of shooting me down the first chance you get? 

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/crysis/news.html?sid=6150139

The third act sounds like it'll be kept a surprise for now, but the first two acts both look and sound incredible, from what we saw. Crysis will support both DirectX 9 and DirectX 10, which means that you can run it on a Windows XP PC, as well as an upcoming Windows Vista PC. You'll get the absolute best graphics with a Vista machine, but DirectX 9 still will look good. The version of the game we saw was using a DirectX 9 machine "simulating" DirectX10 by brute force, and it looked amazing

[W1nTry]

Sounds like playing Oblivion without SM3 to me, the question would be why would I... but thats another dispute altogether. It doesn't change the fact that it's a pretty bold statment to say anything is easy to implement in DX10 so your still shot down as usual.

[Berzerk]

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/39309975/m/117001094831

link to crysis dx9 multiplayer gameplay.

game still looks awesome despite some frame rate hits.


and berzerk hates shader model 3.0,


 its been badly implemented in many of the so called sm3 only games like splinter cell double agent and rainbow six vegas not to mention the badly ported spiderman 3 on pc. if anything splinter cell chaos theory, looks 10 times better than double agent.