nice, get a physx card though.. hear it improves things even with an 8800Ultra

PhysX cards are on the way out right now, mark my words.

And the 8800s have physics support, granted a seperate card would take some stress off the rest of the system, no doubt. But with current prices of PhysX cards from Ageia being around $135 and the performance increases being somewhat negligible in rigs similar to mine I really don't see the point in it.

Actually my rig is set up with a nice PSU and my motherboard is SLI ready so my next upgrade will probably be another 8800 GTS when they become available at sub $200 prices.

Oh damn, I just remembered something. When I first started messing with the UT3 demo my first thought was "I was expecting everything to look as good as the weapons do." The weapons looked pretty good, maybe not quite as good as I was hoping but I know I had high expectations going in.

Edit: PS - I edited that posted you replied to, added quite a bit to it.  Just wanted to make sure you saw that. 

 i doubt it.. it seems more devs are getting into the feel of having a separate card for physics. UT3 does install Physx drivers. UT3 will be a big push for Ageia. They are making a better model of their card that actually supports PCIe ports which will improve it's proformance. I'. still waitinf for a motherboard with 4 or 5 PCIe2 ports. lol Quad-SLI with a physx card = dream. 

I think we are way off topic now....gonna start a new thread....

edit: Added link to the new thread.

PS - I am curious to hear what you think of my edit above.   I imagine you are probably somewhat connected to the game if you know Mark Rein, but I don't think that means you can't be objective. 

Did you try the COD4 demo? I haven't tried UT3 demo yet but COD4 impressed the F'n hell out of me, that game might just get the most preference for playing time this christmas and I wasn't expecting it to be so awesome.

Well I don't really want to get too much into the CoD demo here since this is the UT3 thread, but I will just say that it was frustrating being dropped in the middle of action without a chance to learn the controls and get my bearings a bit.

The actual game is going to be awesome still I think, and I am pretty sure the same will be true for UT3. But I really think these were two very poorly thought out demos for two very different reasons.

Just to be clear the chaos of the CoD4 demo should be in the game, I just didn't think it was conducive to a demo where the player is going to be unfamiliar with the controls. I think I posted this already but I think a better CoD4 demo would have simply had 2 or 3 minutes of small arms small number combat leading up to the bridge to let you get the hang of things and then slam down hard with major amounts of chaos.

I thought the demo was the perfect way to introduce you to the game... that's how every COD starts... They just drop you in insane action, when it comes down to it though in the first few minutes it's pretty hard to die...

Anyway, just about to try out the UT3 demo now i'll bbs.

 I walked up to a car for cover and in 15 seconds I was dead.  The demo was nice enough to say "hey don't stand near cars, they can blow up!", so that was a plus. lol =)

OH MY LORD

Wow, I'm in love, the graphics kick arse over crysis and it just runs soooo damn smooth on my computer and I don't even have the highest specs, all highest settings at my monitors natural resolution...

 It even feeels like UT99, god bless the shock rifle being back, it's just a whole lot of fun!

Count me highly impressed, I'll be buying this too... god damn my list of games to buy this Christmas is getting longer by the day bleehhhhhh