Unreal3 Engine's First Game Demo released

[Hard Ball]

Originally posted by: cevilgenius

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
Doesn't work on AMD's CPU's at all? What kind of crap is that? :roll:

:thumbsdown:

Considering that applications are usually tested on Intels first. :/

Don't get me wrong, I don't care much for either one... but Intel is still used professionally.

Norm

You couldn't be more wrong,

at our research labs, all of the high end engineering servers and workstations are Opterons running on X86 solaris, but all of the run of the mill computer stations are outfitted with Dells. Intel seems to be mostly used in consumer products, while AMD clearly have the performance high-end.

 

[fierydemise]

Originally posted by: RussianSensation
I don't see how these specs will make someone upgrade their computer.

Processor Genuine Intel® Processor (3GHz+) supporting Hyper-Threading Technology

My P4 2.6 is clocked at 3.2ghz and has HT - bought June 2003. It's 2006 in in about 10 days. P4 3.0ghz is pathetic if you ask me. If cpus evolved as fast as before, we'd be at way more than 6.0ghz if speed doubled every 18-24 months (historically). So to me P4 3.0ghz is a joke.

Look at the valve survey posted earlier on this thread, 73.4% of people with intel CPUs don't have a CPU above 3Ghz.

Memory 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended)

Who doesn't have 1 gigs of ram for gaming? 1 gig costs $100. 2 years ago 2x512mb sticks of 2-3-3-6 quality cost $130

Again look at the valve survey, less then 50% of people have more then 512MB of memory

Video NVIDIA® GeForce? 6200 or better
ATI® Radeon? 9800 or better

Ancient technology. For a game that comes out in late 2006 at best we will have G80 and R600 in full force. I want to see 6800Ultra and X850XT as minimum. By then those cards will be well bottom level performance wise.

According to the valve survey if you got to decide the minimum requirements less then 1% of people would be able to play the game. With the current minimum requirements 56.07% of people would be able to play.

I think requirements are rather low. Games should push hardware way more so we can actually take advantage of hardware. There has not been 1 game that pushed P4 3.0ghz. Also only recently games like FEAR and COD2 have pushed videocards for FPS market. But 7800 series is already getting replaced by cards that will breeze through these 2 titles in about 2-3 months. Software is about 1.5-2 years behind imo.

You have to remember most people arn't enthusiasts who have 7800GTs or SLI setups, games have the ultra extreme settings for those who do but they also need to allow people to turn down the settings to play on older machines, otherwise the game will not sell well.