Unreal Tournament 3 with DirectX 10 support

**ubu-for** · May 14th, 2007

Mark Rein On UT3 DX10

After Roy Taylor's NVidia blog was updated Thursday with his blurb about Unreal Tournament 3 and DirectX 10, a lot of questions began to come in regarding whether or not Taylor meant to say DX10 would be required or supported:

More good news, I just had lunch at Vesuvios here with Mark Rein and he confirmed that we can now come out and say that Unreal Tournament 3 will be DX10 and in "The Way Its Meant To Be Played" program for launch. We have a long standing and close relationship with Mark and the team at Epic. We're delighted to be able to confirm this. The official site for UT3 can be found here. Thanks to Bill Rehbock, the father of 'The Way Its Meant To Be Played' program for lunch. There will be more news on developments with the Epic team here soon. Thanks Mark.

Because things can change from what has been stated in the past, and to ease the fears of those tinfoil hat wearing gamers out there, we wanted to get a direct quote from Epic. Mark Rein had this to say:

Supported yes but absolutely NOT required.

Doesn't get more direct than that. Rest easy, conspiracy theorists, DX10 will be an extra goody for those that have it, while those that don't will be pleased to know that Vista will not keep them from enjoying Unreal Tournament 3.

I thought all Unreal games use OpenGL and UT3 will work natively with Linux?!

**Xenix** · May 14th, 2007

Originally Posted by ubu-for

I thought all Unreal games use OpenGL and UT3 will work natively with Linux?!

Windows versions of Unreal use Direct X. Linux & Mac versions use OpenGL. I am pretty sure that there will be an Unreal Tournament 3 for Linux (native).

**Enverex** · May 14th, 2007

Yeah, they normally have 3 renderers. Software, OGL and D3D. Back on the UT1 days they had about 6 renderers. Software, D3D, OGL, Glide, S3, etc...

**hobieone** · May 14th, 2007

i wouldn't worry to much about it they come with multiple mode of support and epic already stated that unreal 3 will shipp with a native linux client. unreal tournament has always been developed on linux using open gl then ported over to direct x which is why unreal tournament ran faster and better under linux vs windows

**Eazy©** · May 14th, 2007

There will be UT3 for Linux I see

Originally Posted by Mark Rain

All this means is that UT3 will support DX10 - it does NOT mean that DX10 is required! We expect the vast majority of our users will be Windows XP / DX9 users. We will also support Mac and Linux as per usual.

http://utforums.epicgames.com/showth...=570096&page=3