Any more news on hardware requirements???

Sun Jul 30, 2006 3:48 pm

I'm personally going to keep waiting. I don't need it yet and I've never seen a CPU price go *up*.

Sun Jul 30, 2006 4:11 pm

Just Wait, we have no idea what the game will need, and even more so what kinda of new fangled technology will be out in a a year. If you are truly upgrading for UT2007, just wait.

Sun Jul 30, 2006 6:17 pm

Well, like I said, it is more to stop annoying my wife. She is not thrilled to use my powerbook to do stuff on. Plus, for class, there is a lot of crap she needs windows for.

UT2004 does not run well on my mac (G4 1.33GHz, 768M Ram, 64M 5200). At least compared to the PC. So, I could either be really cheap right now and buy a Pentium4/D or low end AMD - or I can get one of the AMD/2 or C2D.

Like I said, I am keeping my video card for now. It is good enough for UT2004, which is all I really play. It is also pretty good for Rise of Nations, but I have not played that since I have discovered Onslaught. ;)

Mon Jul 31, 2006 12:46 am

into some Pentium motherboards if the motherboard, get this, can lower the wattage!

You must mean Volts. Watts is equal to the VoltAmps it will draw and is only a measure of that . Increase Volts Amps go up and vice a versa.

An electrical component will only draw what it needs as long as you supply it with the right volts.

Lowering volts to one chip on a MoBo could be challenging.

As far as system specs we are all holding our breath . Just wait and see . Patience.

Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:44 am

Probably better to get your wife a cheap computer or laptop. If you don't need it for gaming, a computer can be had for a few hundred bucks. You can frequently find respectable lappys for 400 or 500 after rebate.

Rich (TW)

Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:53 am

ToxicWaste wrote:Probably better to get your wife a cheap computer or laptop. If you don't need it for gaming, a computer can be had for a few hundred bucks. You can frequently find respectable lappys for 400 or 500 after rebate.

Rich (TW)

That was the other option I was thinking of. And I will just steal this computer.

Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:55 am

DW_Bomzin wrote:
into some Pentium motherboards if the motherboard, get this, can lower the wattage!
You must mean Volts. Watts is equal to the VoltAmps it will draw and is only a measure of that . Increase Volts Amps go up and vice a versa.

An electrical component will only draw what it needs as long as you supply it with the right volts.

Lowering volts to one chip on a MoBo could be challenging.

As far as system specs we are all holding our breath . Just wait and see . Patience.

Yeah, that is what I meant... There is a reason I got the hell away from desktop support. (Besides taking crappy phone calls)

Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:13 pm

I really have to disagree with how crazy people are saying the system requirements are going to be. It would be financial suicide to create a game that does not contain measures to include the "meat" of the gaming audience at the time of release. As much as we all want them, the water cooled, quad core, 5 gig, twin 7900 computers probably make up only 5% of the computers in this world that play online games (this is my guess, not a sited fact). Most people I think are around my position. 1 or 2 cores, 1-2 gigs of ram, a decent video card, and a lot of love for the game. If Epic were to release a game that required nothing less than the latest greatest card like I keep reading, they would loose a lot of money! People like me don’t have the money to quickly spend 1000 here and 500 there for the hardware on the drop of a dime. Now, do I think it is going to increase and push the envelope, and cause me to buy a x850 or similar agp card, of course, but I don’t think it will leave as many people in the cold as everyone is rumoring.

Someone said it earlier, but the programming is also key, as we all know. If they get it right (yeah I know, but we can hope), and have the selectable levels of detail, physics, textures, lighting, etc. There are also options to optimize your computer. Turning off unneeded scanning software, removing the desktop picture, and other things all save memory while playing. I am expecting this will be more of a requirement than an option in this one.

We will all know for sure when it comes out - then we can come back to this post and see who was closest :drunken:

Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:09 pm

Yeah, we will see... My past experience tells me that I am usually 2 years behind the software in hardware because I don't want to spend the extra cash for top of the line.

However, with the C2D being so cheap, you can build yourself a top of the line box for under a grand now.

The funny thing was I was on 3DBuzz the other day doing some optimization research. And I came across a thread from last year talking about 2007. Now, that was a funny thread. According to their estimates, it should be coming out right about ... now. And now we are expecting another year.

However, I thought that I read somewhere that a new game was coming out shortly which is going to use the Unreal3 engine. Anyone have any details?

Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:32 pm

Found it... Gears of War... XBOX360 exclusive...