The Big Debate: nVidia or ATI?

[HideInLight]

UT3 had a lot of problems with Nvidia drivers in it's early days. But that's a thing of the past. Most of the driver related problems are gone now, it's actually pretty **** stable now. Think my FPS doubled since UT3's release, simply because of Titan Pack + new drivers.

[twocenst]

I have always run Nvidia and have never had a problem. One of they guys I play against did an "upgrade" to ATI and regretted it. Lots of problems and few solutions. I guess ATI can be good, but, you have to be a real bit twiddler who likes to spend time tweaking them. I would rather have something that works right out of the box.

that can happen when you up grade from nvidia to ATI... as i have done lots of times.
went from a 7900 to a 4850 back to an 8800gt and then to a 4870 hd

and you just have to rember if you dont want any problems switching to and from nvidia to ATI. you must do a fresh install of you windows. this was the only way i could ensure the card's would work correctly.
and my 4870 1G runs the game well on my 23in monitor running 1920x1080
i average 100 to 250 fps...except for a few maps that are not fps friendly
currently rinning win7

[Ace08]

What Drunkenstein said. I have a Nvidia graphics card and it works really fine on my PC.

You should more focus on the processor though. I read somewhere that the UE3 is very processor-heavy (sorry if this word is wrong.. couldn't find any translation for it) like it's forerunners .

How do you think UT3 would handle with an EVGA nVidia GTS 450 with an AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition processor?

[Bl!tz~]

no problems to run the game on highest settings with such a CPU
not 100 % sure but for the GTS 450 probably more around middle class settings than high or very high...depending from the size of ur screen and from the maps themselves of course

[Sly.]

How do you think UT3 would handle with an EVGA nVidia GTS 450 with an AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition processor?

Without any doubt!
I can tell you, in comparison to your processor mine looks like a bunch of dirt but it can run UT3 on (a bit above) mid settings quite well.

[UTPlayer529th]

I switched out my 2 5870 cards for my GTX 480 and the 480 is much nicer to say the least