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Immortal Combat: Unreal Tournament 3 Performance Preview (page 10)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin , Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 11/13/2007 | 09:30 PM ]

Mainstream Graphics Cards

In the mainstream class the results differ somewhat from those of the flyby tests: the average frame rate of both of the cards is lower, never reaching even 50fps. Anyway, this is not a total failure. The speed is always higher than 30fps at 1280x1024, which is indicative of the optimizations implemented by the developer and the opportunity to play the game in comfortable conditions. Unfortunately, the speed of the ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT and Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS fluctuates from 40 to below 25fps at a resolution of 1600x1200, and this resolution is practically unplayable.

So, the game can hardly be played at the maximum visual quality settings on these two graphic cards, let alone less advanced solutions. They may deliver acceptable performance at a resolution of 1280x1024 at best, but you’ll probably have to reduce the level of detail and the overall image quality of the game.