Mark Rein on Unreal Engine 3 & Xbox 360 HDD

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Gameguru Mania News - Sep,02 2005 -

Mark Rein on Unreal Engine 3 & Xbox 360 HDD - console
(hx) 05:21 PM CEST - Sep,02 2005 - Post a comment
The chaps over at TeamXbox have conducted a brief interview with Mark Rein of Epic Games, asking him how the Unreal Engine 3 will work with the Core Xbox 360:

TeamXbox: How does the "virtual" lack of a hard drive affect the Unreal Engine 3? Would that force Epic Games to cater the UE3 to the lowest spec SKU, in this case the Xbox 360 Core System, or would you allow the developers to take advantage of the hard drive when present?

Mark Rein: We've designed the streaming system in Unreal Engine 3 with the expectation that we wouldn't have a hard drive at our disposal so there's nothing that needs to change at this point. Developers can take advantage of the availability of a hard drive in numerous ways. That's not really an engine issue but more about what a particular developer decides the functionality of their particular game should be. I would certainly expect many games to be able to take advantage of the hard drive.

TeamXbox: As soon as we heard that Microsoft informed developers to not rely on a hard drive, being mandatory for games to work without one, we wondered if that kills the Seamless World Support feature found in the UE3 that allows the engine to anticipate the content that will be needed and stream it in advance?

Mark Rein: We designed our streaming system around the optical disc. While we would have loved to have a hard drive on every machine getting 512MB of memory, rather than 256MB, was a far bigger win for us. The additional memory allows us to produce scenes with truly next-generation visuals and provides room to buffer the data that is being streamed in.

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