Can your system handle UT3?

The Warden · Dec 18, 2008

Lruce Bee said:
I can understand a pro wanting super high frame rates and everything turned off, anything to give him/her that edge but seriously, any casual gamer would be happy with say 60fps, anything above that is just computer cock waving as far as I'm concerned.

Lruce

If you WON'T do it (V-sync) shut it. You know why I said try it?

the game has a HORRIBLE feel with V-sync on, and I do mean horrible, as in mouse lag up the yin yang. I don't mind my Framerate limited, I don't mind V-sync, but when Vsync is ON????? you haven't tried it.

Leo(T.C.K.) · Dec 18, 2008

Damn...I dunno what's happening, I have a bit more memory now on this laptop, but UT3 just runs the same on all settings if I lower my ettings it isn't better, so it runs worse on low settings, wtf is up with that? How can I get it working right again? I cannot play online, especially with these campers in such conditions...that means I run the game but I get like 10 FPS max..or its these messy drivers, I dunno....
I mean now I can run it on max with these settings and its same as in low settings with fps, damn

Lruce Bee · Dec 18, 2008

It's not a case of won't do it, I don't have UT3 installed on my home computer because it can't handle it - the specs are too low - I thought I'd already mentioned that?
I do however have it installed on my work computer and I have played it comfortably at a steady 60fps - if it went above that, I never really noticed, which is the point I'm trying to make.
I have a hard enough time getting my levels at work to run a steady 30fps as that is our benchmark (actually 27.5) - between 30-40 is considered excellent but that's for a racing game on the PS3.
A first person shooter is different but when UT3 was being designed, you can bet you Vsynced little arse the fps benchmark wasn't 100fps - I guarantee that.

Lruce

cosmix · Dec 20, 2008

I have 280-300 FPS on "CTF-Princess Royal Box", 100-200 on most DM maps and an average of 70 on WAR-Serenity. So it depends on the map you are playing on, eh? Maybe we can get better (and comparable) results if we choose a specific map for benches.

Settings are allways at max and pimped up some more with Nhancer.

bobthemutant · Dec 20, 2008

I get around 45-60 Fps max settings on most maps,
dipping down to 35-40 on the larger Warfare maps.

Dusk is the most punishing on fps going down to 30fps with 31 bots.

ATI 4870 1gb ram, 2gb ram @ 1900x1200
not sure on the processor I'll edit this when I figure out what it is.

Molgan · Dec 21, 2008

My frame rate sometimes drop below 60 even on low settings so I voted "unplayable". The stuttering and tearing makes my head hurt.

Fuzz · Dec 21, 2008

It was actually an option that I had in mind. You might think that the game is unplayable with 60 fps too.

thinsoldier · Jan 8, 2009

depending on the map, anywhere from 25 to 200 fps

tech_rsr · Jan 9, 2009

I have a new Thinkpad T500 with a Core2Duo T8600 processor (3 MB L2 cache), 2 GB DDR3 RAM and an ATI Radeon 3650 256 MB video card and the game works pretty well. With tweaks I can play 960 X 600 with 2X AA and Trilinear filtering, HDR Bloom and so on with around 35 fps on most maps, with some parts of the maps running at 55 fps or so. Is there a way I can make this faster?

KillStreak · Jan 21, 2009

JohnDoe641 said:
I get an average of about 120-130 with max visual settings and all the doodads in the nvidia drivers page set to high quality.

really?

Mine is capped at 90FPS even on the lowest settings, i have not set this cap.

JohnDoe641 · Jan 22, 2009

Just turn off frame rate smoothing.

Dark Pulse · Jan 22, 2009

JohnDoe641 said:
Just turn off frame rate smoothing.

No, that'll actually cap it at 90 online. You have to set the cap to 999 in the INI, while leaving it on, for it to be "free" from the cap.

rAt.8^].bAg · Jan 22, 2009

"UTEngine.ini

[Engine.GameEngine]
MaxSmoothedFrameRate=62.000000 "

change to "999.000000" ?

Dark Pulse · Jan 22, 2009

rAt.8^].bAg;2241962 said:
"UTEngine.ini

[Engine.GameEngine]
MaxSmoothedFrameRate=62.000000 "

change to "999.000000" ?

Yeah. Keep minimum to whatever you want the minimum framerate to be, and set the max to 999.

Do keep in mind, though, that if you have huge framerate differences, the game won't seem as smooth. The reason for Framerate smoothing is to try to make the game as jitter-free as possible.

rAt.8^].bAg · Jan 22, 2009

The preset min of 22 would suck anyway, though I don't think I've ever been that low in-game. I'll up that against the 999 and see how it goes.

Bersy · Jan 22, 2009

Fuzz said:
The title kind of nails it. Still, it's interesting to know what framerates you play at and what settings.

I don't play at present, waiting for the expansion.. but when I did.. somewhere around 100 fps at full settings. Q9550, 8 gigs RAM and 9600 GT.

rAt.8^].bAg · Jan 22, 2009

Dark Pulse said:
Yeah. Keep minimum to whatever you want the minimum framerate to be, and set the max to 999.

Do keep in mind, though, that if you have huge framerate differences, the game won't seem as smooth. The reason for Framerate smoothing is to try to make the game as jitter-free as possible.

Much better FPS online now.

Thx DP.

JimBodkins · Jan 22, 2009

Now that I have upgraded to core2duo and nvidia 9600 gso - it runs fine. No idea what FPS I'm at - but it is smooth finally.

oldkawman · Jan 23, 2009

Dark Pulse said:
Yeah. Keep minimum to whatever you want the minimum framerate to be, and set the max to 999.

Do keep in mind, though, that if you have huge framerate differences, the game won't seem as smooth. The reason for Framerate smoothing is to try to make the game as jitter-free as possible.

Yes, for me uncapped is not very smooth at all, actually it sucks that way. That is why I placed a 85 FPS cap, max smoothed frame rate. Anything beyond that and sometimes it seems the the FPS almost hits a wall and drops much lower than it does when I have it capped. This may have something to do with the CPU intensive nature of the game as my system is CPU bound..

Another big part of what playable FPS means to a player depends on the quality of their display. Older LCD displays, non TFT, and newer cheap ones are going to make the game look bad no matter what CPU and GPU is used. Not all displays are equal.

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