UT2003 System Specs

meh, I'm not too psyched any longer for UT2k3....BF1942 has taken my attention away from this for good now....I only have so much time for gaming lately outside of work and life....woulda been nice if they had been able to make a somewhat more accurate call on their demo instead of leaving everyone hanging since e3. sh*t happens.

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who gives the damn about system specs? DEMO NOW! Thats the only way to find out how much the game will require... if they hadn't had that lame meeting about system specs and do some lame coding instead, maybe they would be closer to THE DEMO. I have stopped waiting for this game, end of story.

I bet they're going to require OpenAL to be installed too. Damn Creative and their strategic funding; all I need for multiplayer is stereo DirectSound, not this bloated EAX crap. I'll take Dolby Digital for any SP game though.

My impression of this thread:

'Waaah'.

1. 3 gigs is NOTHING and hasnt been anything for years. Delete some of your porn or mp3's for chrissakes.
2. a 733 mhz cpu is just shy of being a 3 year old cpu. In case you hadnt checked cpu prices in the last, oh YEAR or so, an upgrade is dirt cheap.

Thank you for your attention.

Hmm. Take a look at the average home user's system specs; they're way below this. Factor in the decline of the fantasy/sf FPS in sales. Also, consider extremely depressed PC hardware sales.

The success of this product will hinge on how good it looks and how playable it still is at low res with features turned down.

3 gig? pffftttt.. I have 160 gigs + free on my system, bring it on!

I'm glad the minimum is a 733. My mom is a big UT addict and her machine is an 850 athlon so it should run "ok" for her.

ok first off let me say by saying that i will not be upgrading my Athlon 1.4Ghz slive live 5.1 card with a geforce4 TI 4400 (which i think is the best card ever made, to bad there going to be gone soon from the market) 19 inch monitor and dsl connection i think i will be able to play the game with everything maxed out at 1024X768 and get at least 70fps (trust me for some strange reason my pc the way i have it all setup and oc (GF4 TI at 310 chip and memory at 650) i get a bench mark on 3d mark 2001 SE 10033 that the highest i've ever gotten when i don't have anything on i get 9800

Why do they recommend people use an Audigy card for sound? What is the difference between the Live! and the Audigy? I haven't seen any advance in sound for the longest time, should I really upgrade to an Audigy?

Meeting the minimum requirements just means that you'll be able to run it at 640x480x16, low detail, absolutely no effects turned on and low quality sound.

Shuttle SiS 648 mobo (8x AGP)
P4 2.0 NOrthwood
256MB 400DDR
Radeon 9700

ahhhh...... (woke up from dream)

first game to ever require me to upgrade my CPU to play, too bad this won't be the game to make me do it.

#61, Roofles to you good man

Ugh. I'm not upgrading my PC till early next year, either. Looks like it'll be a while before I play this one.

They cant produce a damn demo so they try to WOW us with a 3gb install crap, <sarcasm>o man I'm so like excited again , o sorry Epic masters</sarcasm>

first game to actually make me upgrade my hd instead of my cpu

30 megs for maps, 20 megs for sound. 5 megs of game code.

That leaves 2.95 gigs for movies of cliffy b getting down.

Epic can eat peanuts from my pooper.

The largest games I ever installed were Commandos 2 and Baldur's Gate 2 (both about 3GB) - neither of which is an FPS.

Actually if the game is a 3 gig install that means that when you're DLing custom maps, there will be 2 distinct types of maps... Maps that use nothing but textures and prefabs that ship with UT2, and these maps will likely be very very small to DL, under 2 megs I'd wager, and there will be maps that use a lot of custome textures and prefabs, and they'll be 50-70 megs apiece. Think about it... UT2 is supposedly shipping with ~30 maps... lets say that all the game code and sound effects and music and everything else but level geometry and textures takes up... 500 megs... or even, a gig, which seems extremely high, but who knows, maybe they have a million techno songs to DM to, which would be fine by me, but that leaves 2 gigs for levels? 2 gigs/30= nearly 70 megs per map.

If that's the case, then how big is is the demo going to be? Let's place bets, I think it will have 3 maps, so I'm guessing 176 megs. Whoever gets closest gets a visit from HWM. :)

3GB = CD swapping install = :`( <---- A famous baby.

You know, if they released this in a DVD version, I might just go get a DVD drive for my system. My machine is brand spanking new, but I just didn't see the reason... If a AAA title like this does it, that sets a precedent, and other companies might start doing it too. You know Doom 3 is going to be a humongous install, (I think the guy at Quakecon running the Doom booth said that the 15 minutes (3-ish levels) of gameplay we say took up 1 gig of space... hopefully that's a lot of unoptimized hard drive usage other textures and levels and other data that wasnt' actually used by the demo, or else the full game will be a 35 gig install) as well as Unreal 2, and likely anything based on either engine. Plus if I have a copy of UT2 on DVD, then half the moochers at all the LAN parties I go to won't be able to 'borrow' my copy for a quick install. Get a job and buy your own copies you punks!

No doubt all this space for 80% useless maps. Hope i'm wrong.

this sounds like a good candidate for a DVD release

well... that rules me out.

but where's the damn demo!

They probably just say 3gigs for installation and for mods and such. Don't sweat it.

Aaahh... 3 gigs... my computer will cry :(

a 733? Shit I just grabbed a GeForce2 so I could try this. I have a 667, think it'll run? I'll probably just get the xbox version.

This would be a good topic for a new frontpage poll. Personally I'd only download the demo (heh, how the HELL is PC Gamer going to fit anything else on the mag CD with this game's demo?), and only if it had bot support, because very few people in the dorms are going to have a good enough system to run this well, and my pipe here to the Internet is unfeasible for online play (and I have nothing at home).

However, I'm glad they're taking their time developing this game (imagine the size of the first thorough patch if UT2K3 was pushed out the door!). They just need to add more incentive to offset these system requirements.

something that is bigger than the VS.NET install.

wow.

I wonder if half of the install is documentation as well. <g>

No wonder there's no demo, they couldn't upload 1.5 GB file to their FTP