What are Red Alert 3 ULTRA HIGH requirements?

Comrades! I seem to be unable to extend my Battle Lab's capability. I can run Red Alert 3 on high graphics, but not Ultra High graphics. (This also applies to CnC3 Tiberium Wars, as they use the same engine)

It seems I have a processor of 3.0GHz single core, with 1.5GB RAM, and 256VRAM that has 2.0 shaders/pixels etc... which all runs on a XP system.

I can select 'Ultra High' graphics on the game, but the gameplay slows down, and I don't get anything spectacular as seen on some videos and screenshots. The emphasised bloom effect, extra particles, and water smooth edges are non-existent and nothing has changed from 'High' graphics.
This also happens in TW, where the road seems plain and smooth, and not realistic (if you've played World In Conflict on high graphics, you'll know what I mean).

I was wondering, what could be the cause of this? Is it.. my processor? My RAM? Or my Video card?

How the heck should we know? The info you give from your specs is useless. You diden't list any specific graphics card or processer.

The only thing I can "guess" is that it may be the CPU because its single-core.

How the heck should we know? The info you give from your specs is useless. You diden't list any specific graphics card or processer.

The only thing I can "guess" is that it may be the CPU because its single-core.

JangoWuzHere

... updated to the newest drivers. or the screenshots you were looking at were mods... machiavell8x8

[QUOTE="machiavell8x8"]... updated to the newest drivers. or the screenshots you were looking at were mods... Crazy_M_Tz