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YaWhateva · 08-03-2003, 12:32 PM

That just goes to show you that you cannot base anything on how the game ran, if it was meant to be run on an nvidia card at the time and there were all these specific things that had to be in a certain order for it to work. But hell if you wanna spend a lot of money on a new computer, by all means, do it. Just dont base it on that. I have actually seen the opposite of what you have seen. Every nvidia card i have seen run it, even the fx5900, has been slower than even the 9700Pro. And what LNCPapa said, is correct, when the e3 "demo" came out, Carmack did say that the game runs much better on an ATI based card. As me and many other people said, the leaked demo means nothing. Hell the game wasnt even coded. the computer has to use most of its processing power coding the game to play it, so there is a big factor as to why it doesnt work so well. When the game comes out and is properly coded, you wont have your processor being used up like that.

Even though UT2k3 was optimized for nvidia cards, my Radeon 9800 gets much better framerates than my friends fx5900 and thats the only difference between our computers. I get way better benchmarks in the UT2k3 benchmark program too.

there are big differences between a beta test of a game and the final finished product, and this isnt even close to a beta, there will be huge changes to optimize the game for lower end systems, The developers would not be so stupid as to make a game only people with top end systems could run. That would not be good business, they would be drastically limiting the amount of games get sold. Not gonna happen.

BTW when you said we shouldnt just take the side of the person we have known for a long time, i have no idea who any of these people are, i am just stating the facts.

08-03-2003, 12:32 PM	#19 (permalink)
YaWhateva Friend Location: New Mexico	That just goes to show you that you cannot base anything on how the game ran, if it was meant to be run on an nvidia card at the time and there were all these specific things that had to be in a certain order for it to work. But hell if you wanna spend a lot of money on a new computer, by all means, do it. Just dont base it on that. I have actually seen the opposite of what you have seen. Every nvidia card i have seen run it, even the fx5900, has been slower than even the 9700Pro. And what LNCPapa said, is correct, when the e3 "demo" came out, Carmack did say that the game runs much better on an ATI based card. As me and many other people said, the leaked demo means nothing. Hell the game wasnt even coded. the computer has to use most of its processing power coding the game to play it, so there is a big factor as to why it doesnt work so well. When the game comes out and is properly coded, you wont have your processor being used up like that. Even though UT2k3 was optimized for nvidia cards, my Radeon 9800 gets much better framerates than my friends fx5900 and thats the only difference between our computers. I get way better benchmarks in the UT2k3 benchmark program too. there are big differences between a beta test of a game and the final finished product, and this isnt even close to a beta, there will be huge changes to optimize the game for lower end systems, The developers would not be so stupid as to make a game only people with top end systems could run. That would not be good business, they would be drastically limiting the amount of games get sold. Not gonna happen. BTW when you said we shouldnt just take the side of the person we have known for a long time, i have no idea who any of these people are, i am just stating the facts. __________________ “If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.” - Bill O'Reilly "This is my United States of Whateva!" Last edited by YaWhateva; 08-03-2003 at 12:37 PM..