[ut3] What graphics card will be fast enough for playing ut3 in linux in 1920x1200?

[Chris Trainor]

Really?  Mine just sings along just fine.   Tho I've got plenty of CPU. 
Pentium D, 3.2ghz, 2M L2 cache, 2Gb RAM.  Tho I do only play at 
1280x1024.... so that may be some of it.

--Chris



On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Alex Storkey wrote:

> Nah, my 7900GTO doesn't play it very well with most options on medium at 
> 1650x1080. Though it could be CPU bottleneck (socket 939 4200+ X2 at 2.4GHz 
> per core, 2GB PC3200 RAM)
>> The 7800GTX will play UT3 pretty much running at full bore with all the 
>> options turned up.  So any of the 8800's should do just fine as well (maybe 
>> even the 8600's but I don't generally bother with the x4xx and x6xx series 
>> cards).  You can generally get them cheap on eBay too.  However if you got 
>> the cash I'd go for a 8800GT or GTS.  I just bought a 640mb GTS and waiting 
>> for it toarrive on Monday.  Should be fun. :)
>> 
>> The downside to the 7800gtx is that other games like Crisys barely runs on 
>> it.  It's playable but you gotta turn just about everything off. :(
>> 
>> 
>> --Chris
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Thomas Ilnseher wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi there.
>>> 
>>> I got a new monitor that does 1920x1200.
>>> 
>>> unfortunately my 6600GT is too slow to do 1920x1200 for ut2k4 with
>>> acceptable FPS (acc. FPS is > 60fps ALL time).
>>> 
>>> so I need to get a new gfx card now! as I hope that UT3 will be
>>> realeased for linux, I want a gfx card that is fast enough to play UT3
>>> in linux with 1920x1200 with an acceptable FPS rate.
>>> 
>>> (that might be either an 8800GT or 8800GTS 512).
>>> 
>>> I would be glad if ryan could give me an rough estimate how much
>>> performance I will loose on Linux compared to winblows.
>>> 
>>> I will buy the new GFX card in two weeks or so, as I will attend the
>>> DATE next week.
>>> 
>>> Thx all.
>>> -- 
>>> Thomas Ilnseher <ilnseher at eit.uni-kl.de>
>>> 
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