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Originally Posted by ChemicalWarrior

I would say Bioshock should give someone a decent idea of how well their system will perform with regards to UT3 and performance. It must be stated though that Bioshock's developers did a lot of work and uses a number of their own rendering and engine aspects. The water for instance is entirely their own work. Also the game first started development on the Unreal Engine 2.5, then transitioned over to UT3. It should still provide a good clue.

My own experience with my system (Core 2 Duo E6300 @ 2.8Ghz, 2GB RAM, X1950 Pro 256MB) is Bioshock performs very well at 1680x1050 and near max settings.

I was aware of Chem's caveats but he and I seem to have come to the same conclusion: if your system will run Bioshock, it probably will run UT3. How well it runs the games remains to be seen. Epic has a history of tweaking the Unreal series so that their games run reasonably well on lower end (older) machines and they have said that this is part of the game plan for UT3 as well. This also factors into my assumption that Bioshock should give a good clue regarding UT3.