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UE2 Minimum and Recommended Specifications

Document Summary: Gives the minimum requirements and recommended specs for hardware in a computer that is intended to run Unreal Engine 2 - both for end users and developers.

Recommended PC Hardware Specs for Developers

Please see the Recommended Hardware page for more information.

Recommended Software for Developers

Please see the Recommended Software page for more information.

Graphics Card Drivers

For NVIDIA cards we using the latest officially released drivers. Download here.

For ATI we currently recommend using the latest officially released drivers. Download here.

Performance Notes

  • VTune? can be an extremely useful tool for finding performance problems, but only works on Intel CPUs.
  • To help with hitting the NextGen Game asset wall, we do the following
    1. All machines have maximum amount of RAM.
    2. All machines have a RAID 0 (Striped) drive where the game is located.
    3. We have a companywide defrag process that runs on everyone's machine over night: Perfect Disk 8.0 by RaxCo.
      • Easy Centralized Management to install on remote machines, schedule runs, upgrade, etc.
      • Supported XP, Vista64, Server 2003.

Basically, the bottleneck is I/O so getting a RAID 0 and lots of RAM can help out a lot.