Help please - UT3 - lack of graphics

MarcBird · 12-29-2007, 10:51 AM

I bought my son UT3 for Christmas and it loads OK (as in it works) but the graphics are so poor they are unplayable (like 3 colour-wash blurred).
I thought our PC would cope with minimum spec
we have:
AMD Athlon3000+ (2.16Ghz)
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card
1Gb RAM
Windows XP + service pack2

As the game works I guess the processor is 'handling it' - is the 9800Pro not upto it? (min spec says 9600)
Thanks for any support (not too tech please!)

jamie_Ridler · 12-29-2007, 11:02 AM

Minumum may say 9600 but it recommends a x1300.
Have you tried turning the graphics settings down, or turning some of the extra features off? Maybe you just have it up too high for the card.

MarcBird · 12-30-2007, 01:41 AM

It seems that the game automatically has set everything to lowest. Not sure if there's anything else I can adjust. If 9600 is stated as OK I assume 9800 Pro is slightly higher and should be at least capable of something?
Thx for reply

supermep · 12-30-2007, 10:26 AM

Be sure to set the resolution to 640 by 480 and double check everything is set at its lowest.

Are the video card drivers up to date? If they are I could walk you through how to possibly gain some more speed from the settings on your graphics card.

PaulRog1 · 03-23-2009, 08:04 AM

Make the graphics 540 by 640

12-29-2007, 10:51 AM	#1 (permalink)
MarcBird Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 2 OS: XP home SP2	Help please - UT3 - lack of graphics I bought my son UT3 for Christmas and it loads OK (as in it works) but the graphics are so poor they are unplayable (like 3 colour-wash blurred). I thought our PC would cope with minimum spec we have: AMD Athlon3000+ (2.16Ghz) ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card 1Gb RAM Windows XP + service pack2 As the game works I guess the processor is 'handling it' - is the 9800Pro not upto it? (min spec says 9600) Thanks for any support (not too tech please!)

12-29-2007, 11:02 AM	#2 (permalink)
jamie_Ridler Registered User Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Wellingborough, Northamponshire, England Posts: 341 OS: Windows Vista Home Premium My System	Re: Help please - UT3 - lack of graphics Minumum may say 9600 but it recommends a x1300. Have you tried turning the graphics settings down, or turning some of the extra features off? Maybe you just have it up too high for the card. __________________ *Comp Specs:* Asus P5K Intel P35 LGA775, Intel Core2Duo E6850 3.0GHz, Geil Ultra 4x1gb DDR2 800MHz, OCZ Geforce 8800GTX 768mb, Maxtor MaxLine III 300gb+250gb SATA2-300, Hiper HPU-4K580 PSU

12-30-2007, 01:41 AM	#3 (permalink)
MarcBird Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 2 OS: XP home SP2	Re: Help please - UT3 - lack of graphics It seems that the game automatically has set everything to lowest. Not sure if there's anything else I can adjust. If 9600 is stated as OK I assume 9800 Pro is slightly higher and should be at least capable of something? Thx for reply

12-30-2007, 10:26 AM	#4 (permalink)
supermep Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Phoenix Posts: 254 OS: winxp	Re: Help please - UT3 - lack of graphics Be sure to set the resolution to 640 by 480 and double check everything is set at its lowest. Are the video card drivers up to date? If they are I could walk you through how to possibly gain some more speed from the settings on your graphics card.

03-23-2009, 08:04 AM	#5 (permalink)
PaulRog1 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1 OS: Vista	Re: Help please - UT3 - lack of graphics Make the graphics 540 by 640