Unreal 3 Engine Interview with Tim Sweeney
 

Want to have a look at a game that could be a Far Cry Killer in terms of graphics? Have a Look

Heres a Quote:
TS: Well, we are aiming at the kind of PC that we think will be mainstream in 2006. We will also be able to scale it down. Basically DirectX 9 cards will be minimum spec, so any DirectX 9 shipping today will be capable of running our game, but probably at reduced detail. If you only have a 256 meg video card you will be running the game one step down, whereas if you have a video card with a gig of memory then you'll be able to see the game at full detail.

At 1 GB of Video Ram necessary for full detail one has to wonder at the overall machine specifications. I know my poor AMD64 with paltry 1GB system ram will be considered too slow to run it.

Yeah.. this is a really promising engine.

Wowie
 

Show me a VGA card with 1gb of RAM and ill soil myself. :biggrin:

You wouldnt use 1gb for another 5 years

384 ones exist the nvidia quadro 3000$

With the rate of advancement of video games, I wouldnt be surprised to see 1GB DDR3 video cards next year.

I agree.. now they have 256mb ddr3.. i think even by the end of the year they are going to have ddr 512.. 1gb isn't to far away.

pfft.. 128 is enough for me ;)

128? wait till Doom3 and HL2 and then tell us what is enough.

it's enough for now... since hl2 and doom 3 won't come out until i retire, that's not an issue right now..

August means retiring for you? hmm.. you must be rich :/