Still As Life

As promised earlier, here are some screenshots of how my computer runs Unreal Tournament 2004 to compare to how it runs Unreal Tournament 3.

Unreal Tournament 3 is running with all of the settings as high as they go, including running at the highest supported resolution, 1280x1024 at 32bit.

It does not chunk, at all, even in large skirmishes, with Photoshop open in the background and also compressing a video file that I forgot I was compressing when I decided to see if it would allow me to take screenshots today, seeing as how it is picky like that.

When I was trying out Unreal Tournament 3, I had it running with nothing else going in the background and on low settings and it still chunked.

This is to be expected, but I am used to the low quality settings of new games still being around the same, or better than the previous versions so the fact that it was so much worse was a real surprise to me.

On another note, if you are in Brisbane, Gametraders currently have Unreal Tournament 3 for $89.95 with $10 off, or the collectors edition for $109.95 with $10 off. Or they do at Garden City anyway. This may be a nation-wide thing, it may not, definitely worth it though if you have the computing power to do the game justice.

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