UTIII demo screenshot/tips/tweaks etc. topic

[Badie05]

download link: http://www.egraphixstudios.com/UT3BetaDemo.exe

Thanks! This is MUCH faster. 300-400kbps! Can't wait to wipe out this DEMO with my 8800GTS...

Edited October 12, 2007 by Badie05

[ZEROarmy]

http://forums.epicgames.com/search.php?searchid=1363428 may help (it's a search in the Unreal Tournament 3 > Beta Demo Feedback subforum for topics with the word 'Modified' in them. There are two so far, both regarding your problem).

Dang it, tried installers from Fileplanet, filefront, epic server and same issue. Fix it Epic!

[Unimatrix Xero]

thankx for the external link mate :)

nice suprise to come home to from a crappy 68th birthday part for some guy i dont really know

[revvo]

It's running way better than I expected! Although there are slow moments, at 1024x768 with medium settings on a 6800GT it's pretty good :D

Now, I just gotta wait for the prices of 8800's to continue to drop :cool:

[InternalStorm]

Runs not the best at default/1680x1050 on my X1900XT 512MB, it's smooth, but not 100% smooth at all time as you would need in such a fast paced game. It runs good for what I expected though! Played just a little bit of the one map and the map is very small and definately didn't get any fun out of it. Will have to try the other map soon... so far graphics didn't impress me compared to Gears of War, but not BAD.

[rajputwarrior]

No, Epic confirmed the demo only had medium res textures. They tried to keep the size down to a respectable minimum.

OK, I don't know if anyone can help me, but I've searched for awhile and nothing so far. I'm on my older PC which is a AMD64 3200, 6600 (vanilla), and 2 GB of ram. And for the life of me I cannot get this demo to run. I've went into the INI's and I just can't figure out what's wrong.

Anyone else having this issue, or know of any solutions to something similar?

i have another system similar to that one (amd 2800 OC'ed and a 6800xt) and it runs the game fine running windows xp professional. Looks pretty good for a three year old system. On my main system i have it maxed out running 1680x1050 res and it looks great :D :D runs smooth too :)

[Slimy]

It's quite sad how easy the players are to kill. On my second online match I ended up first :s

The lag is pretty bad I might say. I can't tell however if it's my computer or the fact that I'm in Canada...

[Piggy]

What are we supposed to do when someone mans one of those machines that look like the aliens from war of the worlds?

I get gibbed almost instantly when it spots me.

[Slimy]

^ Dodge and shoot :p (It isn't invincible)

[Denis W. Veteran]

What are we supposed to do when someone mans one of those machines that look like the aliens from war of the worlds?

I get gibbed almost instantly when it spots me.

Gun him down! :D It takes close to 1000 (?) damage so it'll take a bit of shots before the thing blows up.

So far, quite impressive. The game hitches quite a fair bit in first two minutes of a map, but other than that, it's reasonably fast. FPS averages around 30, highest being in the 40-45 range and lowest in the low 20s. Seriously, after getting some poor performance in Bioshock and average performance in Roboblitz, it's a relief to find this beta running this well. :yes:

I LMAO'ed at some of the taunts. Finally no more corny ass taunts from UT2003. Also open the console ~ and enter 'loaded' and try the redeemer. :woot:

Some screenshots from the VCTF map:

The menu design in UT3 is horrendous to say the least and the map i played had not so good graphics from what i was expecting.

UT2004's GUI was flexible and feature rich, but IMO it felt clunky and lacked polish. This UI looks slick, but personally I felt they dumbed it down too much. And what's with the game forcing you to create a user profile right at the start?

[nylock10]

My settings won't save, its stuck at 640x480 and looks pixelated when I play... any ideas?

[Cloud Constructors]

Where can I dl the demo?

Nevermind found the link up there ^ thanks!

[Cloud Geek]

just want to check dose this work on vista?

the full game dose and the demo should but this is beta demo not final

[Guest xiphi]

just want to check dose this work on vista?

the full game dose and the demo should but this is beta demo not final

Runs just fine on Vista

[PermaSt0ne]

only thing i absolutely hate so far is the double jump. it absolutely sucks. you get NO air what so ever in this game unless you have the jumping boots. and even then it's slow

bring back the UT turny (on the 360) style double jumping!!!!!!

[Blackhearted]

The menu design in UT3 is horrendous to say the least and the map i played had not so good graphics from what i was expecting.

I agree, the menus are terrible. 1 great example of how i said epics selling out to console tards would hurt the game. (And like how i refer to console gamers or not it fits. They need things nice and simple for that crowd, why do you think halo sells so well? simplicity)

No, Epic confirmed the demo only had medium res textures. They tried to keep the size down to a respectable minimum.

Well if a small download size was there goal they sure failed at that. Cause it's rather large for a demo with less content than just about every ut demo before it.

Anyway...

Overall i think the demo is "ok". Although it runs like absolute crap online. I can't tell if that's due to crappy servers or poor netcode yet, though. But it lags out frequently. I'm also unsure if i like the movement changes and how the characters feel significantly heavier now. As well as kinda unsure on the liking of the seemingly increased weapon damage all around. I'm also annoyed with how it refuses to save my video settings.

On a positive note tho: It's does look reasonably nice and is very scalable as ut always is.

[SacrificialSoldier]

only thing i absolutely hate so far is the double jump. it absolutely sucks. you get NO air what so ever in this game unless you have the jumping boots. and even then it's slow

bring back the UT turny (on the 360) style double jumping!!!!!!

Or Reduce the gravity a tad. Ever tried Monkey Moves on UT2004. I can't wait for that in UT3!

[EduardValencia]

OmNiPoTeNcE is coming to fragg you all!!! watch out!! :)

[rajputwarrior]

It's quite sad how easy the players are to kill. On my second online match I ended up first :s

The lag is pretty bad I might say. I can't tell however if it's my computer or the fact that I'm in Canada...

i kinda agree with that, i am usually second place or higher when i play. I have had no lag issues either BTW and i am in BC? maybe it doesn't like you cause you are from toronto :p

only thing i absolutely hate so far is the double jump. it absolutely sucks. you get NO air what so ever in this game unless you have the jumping boots. and even then it's slow

bring back the UT turny (on the 360) style double jumping!!!!!!

and yeah double jump kinda sucks compared to UT2004 :s

[Vice]

Took like 3 hours to download @ 25kbps.

But it installed fine on my XP install and it seems to work perfectly.

One thing that surprised me was how much it looks like UT2004. I mean it's an improvement and they have done some work but a lot of the stuff just looks the same and I'm not talking about repetition in level design but more like in the way things are being rendered. Textures are not very high quality. Simply standing near a wall and you can see ****-loads of pixillation even when all the settings are on Full. Floor textures up close look quite smudged. Less so then UT2004 but still...

Rocks, Mountains, are very poorly rendered. Oversized textures are used on boulders like a stretching to save time. Looks quite stupid. And the bump-mapping is almost non-existent.

On the + Side the game runs silky smooth on my system and it appears to be utilising all 4 of my Processor cores (to about 70% overall) but this is a similar story from Crysis which apparently only was ever using 2 cores (Explain that? lol I have no idea). RAM usage for the game was only like 800MB so its good on that front. When looking at things that are far away it looks amazing, it sort of has a Final Fantasy Advent Children look to the scenery, dark iron-black structures. It's quite sexy.

The Particle graphics are impressive, we got heat-blur scattering effects flying glowing/pulsing objects and generally a really nice design to the free-standing particle effects. The HUD is also really easy to use and isn't intrusive to the gameplay. It's there but you don't notice it.

The weapons and Character Models look nothing short of stunning but some of the Textures are a little low resolution. The weapon effects when firing etc all look great. The vehicles are "ZzzZzzZzz" If you've played UT2004 you won't find anything new or impressive. I didn't at-least, it all looked the same in the levels I played. I know there are some new vehicles that I didn't have access to in the Demo but the ones that I did use were practically unchanged from UT2004 and I think they could of at-least updated them with some more gameplay elements instead of just a graphical overhaul. The hoverboard was very cool though I liked it a lot.

Ummm the demo itself included only a handful of Multiplayer Maps. The Single Player mode was unavailable. One thing that ****ed me off is you have to create an account with IGN to play the Demo this can be done from inside the game but still why do I need to create any account to play the Demo?. It's rather annoying and just yet another username/pass I have to remember (getting pretty sick of all these games with there own account bull****. Just link me to my Serial dumb-asses)

Issues with the Demo: I was unable to join any online games. It would begin to load but it would error out with a Connection Failed message. So to play I had to host an online game and I played with some bots.

This obviously gave me an opportunity to try the Bots. They have a really good A.I. I mean seriously they gave me a run for my money. Epic didn't give them some super-amazing Aim like they did in the first two games instead they are very good dodgers they know where obstacles are and shoot around them. For instance if you run around some building columns and a Bot is on the other side he will reserve fire when his view is blocked and attempt to use the Columns for cover while other members of his Team try to flank you.

Very interesting AI Dynamics and the Bots are very talkative over the Voice communication which I found quite useful.

So I'm not sure if this Demo has low-resolution Textures to fit in to a 700MB installer (could be who knows?) But overall graphically I wasn't impressed. The Game play however was a ton of fun and I'll be buying it when it comes out.

EDIT:// Ok I just looked around the net and Epic has confirmed they only included Medium Resolution Textures in the Demo. So my Bitch-Fit about Textures can be overlooked :D

[lostspyder]

On XP and it crashes my computer after blank screening for 2 mins. Any recommendations?

[IceBrewedBeer]

I can't connect to any of the servers....=/

It just hangs there. Single player works great though.

[gazebee_]

Just downloaded ut3 and I can't get over how amazing everything looks, even on my crappy P4 setup. I was bored last week, so I downloaded UT2004, and I find performance on UT3 the same if not better.

[rajputwarrior]

Just downloaded ut3 and I can't get over how amazing everything looks, even on my crappy P4 setup. I was bored last week, so I downloaded UT2004, and I find performance on UT3 the same if not better.

when they said almost eight months ago they were optimizing, they weren't kidding. This is one of the best optimized games of all time...

[Cloud Constructors]

its AMAZING on my system's quad-core and 8800 gts , screenshots soon