Uncannily good UT2004 Peformance

[cramerica]

Hey all...

Something weird happened to me today

To see what visual quality I could expect from the GF 6800 I'm thinking about buying, I fired up UT2004, and maxed every visual detail, with the resolution at 1280x1024. Expecting a pretty slideshow, I loaded DM Antalus and was shocked to find that my 9600 was actually clipping...i didnt enable vsync, figuring I would get framerates in the teens. I could tell, however, that I was way above 60 for the whole time. The only slowdown came on the big onslaught levels, maybe dipping to around 25 ( i was going by the feel of the game...boo to UT for having a usless framerate display). Still not bad for a card that is less than half as fast as a 9800.

This was the first time I had ever been pleasantly surpurised by my poor little 9600.

Anyway, the game looked amazing, and I can't wait to crank up AA and AF with a 66 or 6800

Weird, eh?

 

[MercenaryForHire]

DM and ONS have huge framerate differentials. I'm not surprised that you were getting 60+ in DM.

What flavour of 9600? SE, NP, Pro, XT? That makes a big difference.

That wouldn't happen to be one of the 8200/8250 RDRAM-equipped Dells, would it? If so, those are quite competent.

- M4H

 

[LocutusX]

Not really... UT2k4 doesn't seem to use very many "advanced graphical features" so it should run fine using high video settings, even on archaic video cards. CPU-limited and all that jazz.

 

[CraigRT]

UT2K4 is a CPU intensive game.. ran amazing on my 9800Pro after I got my A64.

 

[cramerica]

It's a straight 9600 non pro

I missed the change in the Dell line by a few months...I have one of the last 4550's they made, before the mid tower design was renumbered. Pretty quick still.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

for me 40+ feels fluid

 

[otispunkmeyer]

im not sure i find it gpu limited in some instances....holy sh!t settings 4xaa and 8xaf (high quality in the geforce settings) and thats on my 6800gt

 

[LocutusX]

Well it depends on what sort of map you're playing. As M4H mentioned, most (all?) of the DM maps should be a walk in the park for most decent cards -- Onslaught, OTOH, might be tough on the lower end cards.

 

[Error Macro]

I have a P4 2.53, 1 GB RAM, 9500 Pro... ONS can be a freakin' slideshow at times. DM is very smooth though. Also, Assault is pretty intensive, and framerates are pretty low. I run at 1152x864 resolution.

 

[dguy6789]

Heh, there is no difference in fps on any map for me in ut2k4