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Author:  dsdelboy86 [ Tue May 23, 2006 5:08 pm ]
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i have a really bad problem with this mod. everytime i use it i get really bad FPS spikes... usually halfway through a match, which can only be fixed by constantly staring upwards or down at thefloor
i love this mod, the weapons are soooo good......but i just can't play it.
any idea whats wrong?
Author:  Mr.UglyPants [ Tue May 23, 2006 7:56 pm ]
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what are your PC specs? what settings do you run UT2004?
Author:  James [ Tue May 23, 2006 8:11 pm ]
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Mr.UglyPants wrote:
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what are your PC specs? what settings do you run UT2004?


lower the grpahics settings, i cant play BW with settings even on normal.
Author:  Sgt. Kelly [ Tue May 23, 2006 10:03 pm ]
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You need one of those super new cards to run Ballistic at all highs with good performance. Try getting the Nvidia GeForce 7800, that should reduce most of the lag.

Post edited by: Sgt. Kelly, at: 2006/05/23 23:09
Author:  Mr.UglyPants [ Tue May 23, 2006 11:56 pm ]
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dude i have a Nvidia FX 5200 series GPU and have not much problem running BW with BW content on highest, the only lag i get is from my 512 ram and CPU!

Also a 7800 is probably able to play UT2007 on low settings so don't start thinking you need a 7800 to play UT2004/BW at the best quality, you mostly need a good processor and ram, and a Geforce 5 or 6 series GPU!

Post edited by: Mr.UglyPants, at: 2006/05/24 00:58
Author:  Bjossi [ Wed May 24, 2006 3:10 pm ]
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UglyPants, Geforce 7800 will play UT2007 on high settings. Do you think Epic would get any copies sold if you needed to shell out $1000+ to be able to play on low settings? :blink: Low settings would be a Geforce 6600 series card.

And for UT2004, don't even bother upgrading the GPU, the processor has far bigger peformance involvement.
Memory plays a big role as well, 1 Gb makes huge difference over 512 Mb.
Author:  Redshift [ Wed May 24, 2006 4:34 pm ]
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Bjossi wrote:
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Memory plays a big role as well, 1 Gb makes huge difference over 512 Mb.


Aye, so very true! I recommend 1.5 Gb (or higher, obviously) because WinXP is such a freakin resource hog... Ideally you should have (at least) one Gb of RAM just for the game. This should significantly improve load times, and maps should run smoother as well.

But forget about upgrading CPUs... Better get a fresh new rig after UT2007 has been released.

Have you seen the pics & vids at http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/unrealtournament2007/ btw? Looks totally awesome, especially those tripods they ripped from War of the Worlds! UT2k7 is gonna be wicked sick, though they'll probably mess up again with things like gibs (fake looking) and locational damage (hardly any). Also the lighting looks a bit funny in the pics, like they're all permanently basking in the glow of a nuclear explosion or something... :dry:

But those are just relatively minor issues... As a whole, the game will probably 0wn h@rd and d33p, esp. with the enhanced BW guns! :cheer:
Author:  Bjossi [ Wed May 24, 2006 5:02 pm ]
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You won't need more than 1 Gb for UT2004, and WinXP only uses around 140 Mbs for me. But that is after a lot of tweaking I did.
Author:  Dracone [ Wed May 24, 2006 8:04 pm ]
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I hear it's going to be for PS3, UT2007. If so, it'd be a lot cheaper just to get that if you can. May be expensive for a console, but think of what you'd pay for a PC that can run it. AND YEAH THOSE TRIPOD THINGS LOOK SWEET...I recall the 2 Necris people in the ECE pack. Did anyone see their ages?
Author:  Redshift [ Wed May 24, 2006 8:52 pm ]
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Bjossi wrote:
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You won't need more than 1 Gb for UT2004, and WinXP only uses around 140 Mbs for me. But that is after a lot of tweaking I did.
Dracone wrote:[/b]
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I hear it's going to be for PS3, UT2007. If so, it'd be a lot cheaper just to get that if you can. May be expensive for a console, but think of what you'd pay for a PC that can run it.


Uh, but you wouldn't be able to play BW -or any other mod for that matter- on a console, right?? :S Consoles suck, only being able to play the official version of a game is boring as hell. The only reason I still play UT is because of the community content, period. Also I don't have to pay extra to get online. :cheer:

Yeah, gaming PCs are expensive, but they're infinitely superior to consoles, imo.
Author:  Bjossi [ Wed May 24, 2006 8:58 pm ]
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PCs cost more, that is obvious, but you get what you pay for. The extra $1000 will guarantee you many times better visual quality, moddability, plus more freedom of what happens in the computer.

I will never buy a console, simply because they are for people that don't have a clue how PCs work, or can't afford a decent one.

My 2 cents.
Author:  Dracone [ Wed May 24, 2006 9:42 pm ]
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Oh that's quite true...but then again if I can't get a good enough computer, I will have to go with getting the one for PS3 anyhow. I'm going to be getting PS3 either way, so...
Consoles may not be as adabtable, but you have to give them their good points. Like online play. There's not as many issues online with them. Also, a computer's gonna come up with a lot more problems overall than a console. But the computer does have a lot of it's own pros. So I call consoles and computers equal. But that's my opinion.
Author:  Bjossi [ Wed May 24, 2006 10:09 pm ]
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There are no problems for PCs if you know how to use them properly. Windows XP never crashes unless you or another application did something wrong, for example.
:)
Author:  Mr.UglyPants [ Thu May 25, 2006 1:56 am ]
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Redshift wrote:
UT2k7 is gonna be wicked sick, though they'll probably mess up again with things like gibs (fake looking) and locational damage (hardly any). [/quote]Bjossi wrote:[/b]
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UglyPants, Geforce 7800 will play UT2007 on high settings. Do you think Epic would get any copies sold if you needed to shell out $1000+ to be able to play on low settings? :blink: Low settings would be a Geforce 6600 series card.


No one knows the requriments so don't start betting that a 7800 will run it high end! dual 7900's are the way to go!
Author:  ShadowBlade [ Thu May 25, 2006 10:29 am ]
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BW should run fine with 1gb ram, and a decent P4 CPU.. GPU make the least difference at the moment.. but a 5500, 6,7 and so on will still improve things a bit..:)
Author:  Redshift [ Thu May 25, 2006 12:21 pm ]
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Mr.UglyPants wrote:
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I have a few High rex pictures from BeyondUnreal.com that have the gibs in them... and boy they look good, best gibs for anything i've ever seen!


Well, let's hope those are the actual in-game gibs, not just some artistically enhanced promo stuff...
Author:  Bjossi [ Thu May 25, 2006 3:28 pm ]
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Mr.UglyPants wrote:
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No one knows the requriments so don't start betting that a 7800 will run it high end! dual 7900's are the way to go!


Epic said themselves that the game would run fine on Medium settings with a decent Geforce 6800. :dry:
Author:  Mr.UglyPants [ Thu May 25, 2006 8:15 pm ]
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trust the shots that BU got are ingame high rez pictures!
Author:  Bjossi [ Thu May 25, 2006 11:28 pm ]
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Yeah, looks like the game will make good use of SM3.0 and DX9 effects, which are easily supported by even a FX 5950 Ultra.

Why are so many people thinking the game will have astronomical requirements? It puzzles me. :blink:
Author:  Mr.UglyPants [ Fri May 26, 2006 1:58 am ]
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trust me its going to need a good card and PC! Plus most people (myself included) want to play it at maximum settings!
Author:  Bjossi [ Fri May 26, 2006 2:19 am ]
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You could probably do that with two 7900 GTXs in SLi or two X1900 XTXs in Crossfire. Or a single Geforce 8xxx card or ATi X2xxx card.

But be careful when using AA, 8xAA/16xAF plus max settings even makes Doom 3 bog down to the 30s FPS for me occasionally. :ohmy:
Author:  ShadowBlade [ Fri May 26, 2006 9:38 am ]
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Bjossi wrote:
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You could probably do that with two 7900 GTXs in SLi or two X1900 XTXs in Crossfire. Or a single Geforce 8xxx card or ATi X2xxx card.

But be careful when using AA, 8xAA/16xAF plus max settings even makes Doom 3 bog down to the 30s FPS for me occasionally. :ohmy:


Man!! some big equipment thereB) could do with some of them cards..
Author:  Redshift [ Fri May 26, 2006 11:07 am ]
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Mr.UglyPants wrote:
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trust me its going to need a good card and PC! Plus most people (myself included) want to play it at maximum settings!
always[/i] try to downplay those, for obvious reasons). I'm not buying the game until I have the gear to run it maxed out, even if that means having to wait a couple months after release.
Author:  Bjossi [ Fri May 26, 2006 4:16 pm ]
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Change that into years. My system runs Fear on max settings with average 30 FPS. :blink:

I think UT2007 will requirements somewhat higher than that game, so you may even need better than dual 7900 GTX to handle it at full AA/AF with 1600 x 1200 and max details. :S
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