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Unreal Tournament 3 system requirements revealed

Category: PC, Posted: 10/03/2007 at 12:46PM CDT by Brendon Lindsey, Editor-in-Chief

UT3

I know, all of you PS3 owners are sad about Unreal Tournament 3 being pushed back until 2008. If you're like me, you don't have a very good gaming PC, and you were looking forward to messing around on the PS3 version.

Oh well. Guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens. In the meantime, PC gamers will still get to experience UT3 this November. Today Midway released the official system requirements for the game, and I have to say, I'm pretty happy. I may end up getting to play this on the PC after all.

Minimum System Requirements
Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
2.0+ GHZ Single Core Processor
512 Mbytes of System RAM
NVIDIA 6200+ or ATI Radeon 9600+ Video Card
8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space

Recommended System Requirements
2.4+ GHZ Dual Core Processor
1 GBytes of System RAM
NVIDIA 7800GTX+ or ATI x1300+ Video Card
8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space

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Posted by lastdinosaur on 10/03/2007 at 01:01PM

Awesome to see new games that still scale pretty well. I've also heard that UT3 will include the Linux client for the game in the retail box! An epic win for Linux gamers everywhere!

Posted by Dr.Aaron on 10/03/2007 at 02:56PM

just need to upgrade my card to 6200 then I ready to play on min settings!

Posted by Archem on 10/03/2007 at 03:41PM

Whoo! Low requirements means I can play this on medium-medium high settings!

Posted by Lopez on 10/03/2007 at 03:43PM

Thats actually impressively low. I could almost run it. Or I could steal my brothers laptop.

Posted by BahamutBBob on 10/03/2007 at 05:00PM

Wow, I can actually play it. It'd be on low settings, but it would run, which is awesome.

Posted by Blairyfairy on 10/03/2007 at 05:23PM

lol yet again may i make further statment on ps3 and all those kids who bought ps3 right when it came out for thousands on ebay * points laughs* dosen't it seem like your getting the short end of the stick all the time lol

Posted by rtanger on 10/03/2007 at 06:25PM

In my experience, "Recommended" requirements should more closely read "Minimum" requirements if you want any kind of enjoyment from a game...

Posted by DrZsbl on 10/04/2007 at 12:03AM

Enemy Territory says min. is a P4 2.8 GHz, 512 ram, & an ati 9700. I have a core 2 duo E6400, 7950gt & 1 gig and It looks like a ps1 game. Good luck trying to play this with a video card that is over a year old. Get a new 2 core Pentium, better for gaming higher clock that 4 cores & at least an 8800 card to play this.

Posted by jambo on 10/04/2007 at 12:46AM

If UT3 is as optimised as BioShock then I will be a very happy man!

Posted by DD_nVidia on 10/04/2007 at 01:46AM

Well there must be a mistake in these specs...
A GeForce 7800GTX is far FAR more powerful than an ATI Radeon X1300...x1300's are rubbish and I know because I have tested both cards! (I work in a computer shop)
As for the Minimum specs, they are clearly just trying to out-do Crysis since it is the only other BIG PC game and the main problem with it is the machine needed to play it when it actually looks like the videos. People seem to forget that when it seys minimum it means - 640x480, NO AA or AF, all settings at LOW or OFF. Recommended means - 800x600/1024x768 NO AA or AF, all settings at medium.
Personally, I would have to say, Core 2 Duo E6300/6400, 2Gb DDR2-800, Geforce 8600GTS / 8800 GTS 320 for playing this game at higher settings, but even at that it still won't max out.
Crysis is still going to look better ^^ Come November - Let the war BEGIN!

Posted by Kester on 10/04/2007 at 05:31AM

My computer laughs in the face of these specs!
I love my new rig =]

Posted by Wasabi on 10/04/2007 at 03:10PM

Hmm... I should be able to play this.
SHOULD being the operative word here.

Posted by Mancomb on 10/14/2007 at 05:09PM

Well, I'm currently running the Beta Demo available from FilePlanet and various other sites; my system specs are as follows:
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (which caused a few problems but those have been fixed)CPU: AMD Atlhon 64 X2 4400+ Dual Core 2.2 GHzRAM: 2 GB Corsair CMXP1024-3200C2 PC3200 200MHz DDR SDRAMVIDEO: XFX nVidia GeForce 8600 GTS w/ 256 MB DDR3 VidRAM & 675 MHz Core ClockHDD: 250 GB w/ 80+ GB available (secondary HDD)
Now, I know that what I am runnig is only a beta/demo, however I am able to run it at what appears to be full settings @ a resolution of 1024x768. Now, I say "what appears to be" because the layout of the options menus aren't typical of most games; there aren't many options to change. Below is a listing of the current settings options (with the ones I'm using encased in [ ] brackets):
Post Processing: Muted Default Vivd [ Intense ]
Hardware Physics: Disabled [ Enabled ]
Texture Detail: 1 2 3 4 [ 5 ]
World Detail: 1 2 3 4 [ 5 ]
V-Sync (Vertical Sync): Disabled [ Enabled ]
Screen Percentage (% of screen to render in): 1% to [ 100% ]
Screen Mode: Windowed [ Fullscreen ]
Now, I don't know if the finished product is going to have more advanced settings options or not; these options seem fairly simplified, so there's really no way of knowing if I'm actually running the game at "full" settings or not; all I can say is I'm running the current beta/demo at the highest settings it has available, whatever that means.

Posted by gnomeaphobic on 04/27/2008 at 01:03PM

mmm the graphic card demand is a bit high...

GUYS DO NOT BUY THIS GAME FROM A SHOP!!!

i dunno about world wide but price in Australia for unreal tournament 3 is $99 but u can buy the full version of this game on steam for only $30 all u have to do is register steam...

im not trying to get more members... but think about it... u spend like 10 mins and a few kbs of space and u save urself nearly $70... so worth it

anyway gl hf all u gamers

Posted by gnomeaphobic on 04/27/2008 at 01:10PM

umm guys i duno too much about video game requirements.. i just play them lol...

will a ATI radeon 9550 [BenQ FP92G] video card play this??

plz write back