Official Unreal Tournament 3 system requirements are here, and odd.

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 11:48:45 Wed, October 03, 2007

Stolen directly from the headlines of one of my favorite gaming sites, (Kotaku) I give you the official and very weird system requirements for Unreal Tournament 3:

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

Notice how the recommended system does not list an operating system. Apparently you don't need one! I'm kidding, I am sure it was just a mistake. What I really find strange is that they are suggesting a Nvidia 7800 GTX or higher or an ATI X1300 or higher video card. Since when are those two cards even remotely comparable? The game is a Nvidia TWIMTBP (The Way It's Meant to be Played) game and yet they are telling you that lowly X1300 is just as good as a 7800 GTX. Seems to me like it should be the other way around. I think they should have recommended at least a X1650 XT or maybe even something from the X1800s. What do you guys think?

It would have been nice of them to include the system requirements necessary for running the game in DirectX 10 mode as well. For those people who are not as knowledgeable as us.

Unreal Tournament 3

17 Comments

Wednesday, October 03, 2007 1:12:44 PM

Mach5Motorsport
n00b

This is what happens when an intern is assigned to post the software requirements. ;)

Wednesday, October 03, 2007 2:46:58 PM

Radiator
Senior Member

I suppose it was meant to be a X1800 card , not a X1300 card .
Anyway , the requirements sound great ... hell , even I will be able to run it :P .

Wednesday, October 03, 2007 4:13:54 PM

anonymousD
n00b

3 isnt that close to 8 on the keyboard..even on a keypad..:shifty:

Wednesday, October 03, 2007 10:47:28 PM

Evil Incarnate
The Progenitor

Guys there were three more comments that I meant to approve, but I pressed the wrong button (and then I even confirmed when I should not have) and deleted them. I am very sorry. Please re-write those comments if you can remember them.

Thursday, October 04, 2007 2:08:56 AM

anonymous
guest

I wonder if it's THE GeForce 6200 or the GeForce 6200a the one from minimum requirements.

Thursday, October 04, 2007 5:50:59 AM

Asbestos
guest

Well a 3 looks similar to an 8. Add to that the rough scrawl of some people's handwriting, and you have a recipe for misquote. However it happened, it is sure to start a flamewar somewhere on the internets. Also there is no OS listed for "Recommended" because it will run on WinXp/WinVista/OSX/Linux

Thursday, October 04, 2007 8:58:23 AM

Track
Banned

These aren't the official specifications.

Thursday, October 04, 2007 9:03:57 AM

wyz135
Senior Member

A simple explaination, low-end ATi card can run a high-end game, like F.E.A.R , the minimum is Radeon 9000, while nVidia is FX5700 or higher, so ATi is good

Thursday, October 04, 2007 10:59:46 AM

Evil Incarnate
The Progenitor

@Asbestos "...linux game exe in the box and mac version soon after. Not sure how the editor works"

From a Q and A on September 25, 2007.
http://www.beyondunreal.com/content/articles/203_1.php

Thursday, October 04, 2007 2:34:33 PM

Emil K. R.
guest

@ Cross-platform: Maybe they're not allowed by Microsoft to turn attention to that fact. o_O

Friday, October 05, 2007 4:29:00 AM

Radiator
Senior Member

A Radeon 9000 has no chance of getting stable FPS in DX9 in F.E.A.R. . And F.E.A.R. isn't that demanding , I could run it close to max on my X1600 Pro ( no AA though ) . I'm 100% sure that the X1300 card is not meant to be on the recommended requirements there . It just doesn't make any sense .

Friday, October 05, 2007 6:38:16 AM

Asbestos
guest

@Evil Incarnate, I'm just saying that Windows isn't listed under "Recommended" because it would infer superiority. It was probably a case of all or none. Anyway, I'll be interested to see if these system requirements are the ones printed on the case ;)

Saturday, October 06, 2007 6:22:00 AM

Radiator
Senior Member

Somebody put the minimum requirements of Crysis to GeForce 6800 GT / Radeon 9800 Pro . I guess it's the same joker who put these requirements up :P .

Saturday, October 06, 2007 9:36:07 AM

anonymous
guest

x1300 wow exxxxxxtreme AMD/ATI optimization lol(j/k).
Seriously they should change the 2.4ghz dual core processor recommended into something more specific for Athlon X2 2400 /Core 2 Duo E2140(lowest C2D I know of)/Pentium D 2.4ghz as it might mislead people to think they need a 2.4 ghz X2 4800 or even 2.4 ghz E6600 as I've already seen people confused on the low clock speeds of new proccessors and also a separate vista requirement as in 1.5 gbs of RAM.

Monday, October 08, 2007 3:42:55 PM

anonymous
guest

im sick of companies posting rediculusly low minimum requirements. sif it would get any higher than 5 fps on low detail wit a 6200 nad 512MB of RAM?! Are you kidding me?

Tuesday, October 09, 2007 10:53:43 AM

Radiator
Senior Member

They guarantee on that it'll run it on that hardware , however they don't say how good it will . But it will run .

Wednesday, October 10, 2007 12:13:58 PM

anonymous
guest

If the x1300 was a mistake they surely would have changed it by now so we can only presume that it is correct.

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