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>weren't very impressive looking on their face compared to end-of-life 6th gen games
UT and Q3 look pretty fucking good when decked out with AA at full HD and custom resolutions and such which they supported. UT had "high res graphics pack", modern graphic packs make it look decent. Q3's textures got a bit dated in comparison. There are texture packs but a lot of them are fairly roughshod and not as vanilla compliant from what I've seen.

With support for modded textures built in - playing UT99 right now looks way better than Xbox games even though it lacks the better lighting modes.

Even Quake 3 on user maps with FSSSAA at full HD or 4K even as a custom resolution supported by the original game executable.... looks great.

If XBox emulation comes around and jumps up the res, then these games will continue to compete with the best of the OG XBox graphics wise. The issue being some of the old games had a few tricks up their sleeves for longevity that consoles couldn't do - at least not without help of PCs or perhaps one days consoles emulating the newer consoles too.

These games definitely didn't look like this out of the box though, lower resolutions etc... fuck, some of us played Q3 at 640x480 with vertex lighting 16-bit initially and no AA and pulling 30-60FPS... Doesn't mean the game itself didn't support full HD, full AA, at 32-bit at 125hz or texture bumps. Hell you can even up the allocated memory in the configs themselves as well. I remember as promo there was even a Quake 4 high poly gladiator model ported to Quake 3 that could be used in gameplay. It's hard to find even screenshots or info on it though since search engines have long since been effectively fucked over and that goes quadruplicate for old web. It's probably kicking around on wayback, but until there's an effective search engine for that too, it's probably unlikely to be seen again.

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