Unreal Tournament 3 on HD 3870

Hey all,

Just a comment on how well the Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 512MB plays UT3! I just picked it up a few hours ago (the game) and have been playing @ res of 1600 x 1200 with all settings maxed and it's playing oh sooo sweet! Of course the fact that I'm using Windows XP SP3 which limits the card to displaying in DirectX 9.0c probably helps that a bit... haha. 2GB DDR2 667MHZ RAM is a nice bonus too for games I've found. Though I have ordered a 4GB Kit of Corsair DDR2 800Mhz Ram which should be arriving soon. At which point I'll step it up a notch and "upgrade" to Vista Home Premium 64 - bit and then unleash the full potential of this vid card.


-Jagnet

it's funny how people who like to portray themselves as being "smarter" or "better" if you will, then other people will actually make themselves look retarded by saying things like "no offense..... but ..." thogrom my comment to you is this: I may be a noob by your standards but you make me laugh by your pathetic efforts to make yourself appear better then me..... oh yeah.. sorry for the bashing.. hahahahaha

-Jagnet

thanks for sharing yur experience OP...and u r right use vista to get dx10 workign and enjoy the full potential of that card...

Ok... just a thought. The OP never ever ever ever said anything that could be misconstued as saying that the 3870 is the card to go out and buy so that you play UT3 with great graphics. What he said was that he has a 3870 and the graphics on UT3 look really good with it.

I'm still using an ATI x1950 Pro card, and it has handled every game i have thrown at it at 1440x900. Not a huge res but that's with just about every setting up to HIGH. Crysis and FarCry2 included. Think I'm goin to go for the 4850. Think I will see a noticeable improvement? ;P

heh, the one setting i usually haveta crank down is shadow filtering. Once you drop under HIGH it just doesn't look as good as the rest of the game. But it's been good to me

You talkin to me? or the originator of the post?

yes, it has to be one of my favorite pics i've EVER used yet But give the guy a little credit... You dont need the top of the line to be happy with what you got. He's got me beat, but I would never consider buying that card myself
But ya, probably a waste of a post... ))))

that is good to here. unreal engine is very efficient. the 3870 is a decent card one thing i dislike about is that it isnt great when enabling aa but its good card overall with moderate settings. 4000 series fixed the issue ati back in the game.
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LMAO!!!!! that is why i was NEVER able to find that option!!!!! hehehe seriously. I didn't look that hard cause, it did look VERY good anyways ))I think Bioshock was one of the last games I paid for... Gotta love Steam. Reformatted so many times, and was able to reinstall it i don't know how many times over. F@CK DRM!!!!