Those of you wanting to know if a 8400gs can run UT3 demo look here.

Hey guys, some of you may remember me from the 8400gs overclocking thread. Anyways my 8400 is overclocked 650 core and 850 ram. UT 3 ran fine (by fine i mean no more than 40 fps, it seemed like it averaged around 30). I tried doing fraps but it didnt load during the game. The game was smooth and i almost won 2 rounds. I think my CPU is holding me back. i have a 1.6ghz core 2 duo.


anways YES!!! it can run it...when its overclocked, i have not tried running it stock. I figured im slowed down by my processor.


if you can overclock your 8400 and you have a 1.6ghz or better then go ahead and load it up.

i ran the game at the resolution of 1280 x 800 and I put POST PROCESSING to MUTED.

i think my detail was either 1 or 2, neither made a difference. All resolutions ran the same speed so i figured its my processor.

 

No, you proc. is more then enough.
ANY CORE 2 DUO PROCESSER IS ENOUGH FOR GAMING & WON'T BE A BOTTLENECK IN ANY WAY!

 

well then. It still doesnt change the fact that i perfectly can play UT3 on my 8400gs

 

UT3 demo runs beautifully on my system too. HP dv6500t Core 2 Duo 2GHz, 2GB of RAM, GeForce 8400M GS, upgraded to Windows XP from Vista

I wonder if it would even load on the GMA 950 in my MacBook

 

That's actually very wrong. The 8700mGT is bottlenecked by anything under the 1.8ghz core2duo, and a single desktop 8800GTS is bottlenecked by anything under the e6600 (2.4GHz) core2duo.

Oh and the ULV core2duos for ultra mobiles are worse than higher clocked P4's, so that's a really broken statement you made.


But one thing is true, your processor wouldn't bottleneck an 8400 of any kind, it's not fast enough to be bottlenecked.

 

how many fps approx you get at 1024x768, and everything to high or max?

i would dream to get 30 or 40

 

Guys,I installed the UT3 demo but every time I try to creat a profile i receive an erorr message and it says the email compination and password is inncorrect or something like that. Any advice how to register or make a new profile to play the game?

 

Maybe true for non-extreme notebooks, but not true in a general sense. My 2.4GHz bottlenecks my 8800GTX in my desktop. Even at 2.88GHz, it still bottlenecks. I get more and more performance out of my card the more I OC. So, be careful making a generalized statement like that.

To the OP, nice OC and glad to here the games run. It seems like a pretty scalable game in terms of hardware which is great. I wish more games were scalable like that.