Game freezes on Campaign start

[Tschebel]

hi

got my ut3 today and it work fine for instant action. but if i try to start the campaign, the game freezes at the intro sequence and the last second of sound is repeating (falters), then i have to kill the ut3.exe, I tried some changes in the ini's but nothing helped

my system:
athlon 64 4000
2 GB ram
gf 7900 gs
creative audigy 2 zs

windows xp profesisonal sp2

anyone has an idea?

thx 4 any suggestions
tschebel

[Rakelden]

I have the same problem here

[cynderrr]

Jup i have the german version and i have the same problem

Win Xp Sp 2
Amd Athlon 4000+
2 gig ram
geforce 7800gs
with the 169.00 driver and i also tried it
with the 163.75 and the problem remains.
i got to say...im really upset...i waited long for this game.
and especially i diddent wait for the game to play it without the sequenzes.
and while im writing please send out a patch for the language...the german
language is sooooo awful in games.
(its not meant offencive i am from germany)
so please help.
and btw if i hit esc i can play absolutly perfekt but the game freezes again in the second sequenz

[Maxx_Niwa]

hi,

I have the same Problem, too.
But only on resolutions of 1024x768 and above.
On 800x600 the intro-sequence works fine.

System:
WinXP pro SP2
AMD 64 3800+
7900GT 512MB
2 GB RAM
Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Fatality
all drivers are new

[Sam Urai]

i've the same problem :(
and i don't wanna play on 800x600 ...i've recently bought a new widescreen tft and unreal looks awful with that resolution X__x

@cynderrr:
UT3 German-> English (http://anonym.to/?http://forum.ingame.de/unreal/showthread.php%3Fs=%26amp;postid=357382%23post3573 82) ;)

[cynderrr]

hehe thanx sam.
and i agree i bought a widescreen aswell and i aint gonna play in 800x600
anyway thats not how it can be intendet. i aint bought the game
to play like its 1985

[dr4g0nsr]

Delete the cinematics.

[Rakelden]

Yeah, well, but actually I want to see them, thats why to play single player.

[SoD_Master]

I encounter the same problem as you do...
But if i skip the cincematics and enter the first map, the game'll still freeze like described above ..
now it throws me to my desctop and i get an " Visual C++ Runtime Library" message wich says ut3.exe is terminated in an unusual way.

hope this helps :(

[happycat]

I'm getting freezing during any of the campaign cinematics. I've updated drivers, killed useless processes.... not sure what's going on.

[Saja]

Same here
amd athlon xp 4800+
gforce 7900gtx
2 gb pc3200 ddr
asus a8n-e

win xp prof sp2
169.00 driver

Imedeately after pushing the campaign button the game freezes an your only posibility is to kill the process in the taskmanager.

[cynderrr]

Delete the sequenzes???
yeah thats why i paid for the game, so i have less of it than
someone who got it illegal..
anyway i tried a trick from splintercell double agent were you add the lines "-ll" to the shortcut of the exe
it went on a alittle longer than before but still froze up in the cinematic

[Alf1507]

I have the same problem. As soon as I start the campaign my game crashes. I don't want to delete the cinematics because that's why I bought the game. Please help!

[Tschebel]

till now i didn't find any solution of this problem but a workaround, you can press ESC to skip the movies

there is a possibility to view the movies without a starten ut3
download the rad video tools
http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm
start it and choose ut3folder/UTGame/Movies
select the movie wich you want to play
klick on advanced play
go to soundoption an choose track 5 for english or 8 for german
mark checkbox use waveout for output
klick play and enjoy the movie

best whishes
tschebel

[happycat]

till now i didn't find any solution of this problem but a workaround, you can press ESC to skip the movies

there is a possibility to view the movies without a starten ut3
download the rad video tools
http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm
start it and choose ut3folder/UTGame/Movies
select the movie wich you want to play
klick on advanced play
go to soundoption an choose track 5 for english or 8 for german
mark checkbox use waveout for output
klick play and enjoy the movie

best whishes
tschebel

I viewed the movies with the Bink tools, but was unaware of the multitrack. I was dissapointed because there was no dialog.

THANK YOU :)

[cynderrr]

thanks for the effort, but i dont want to watch the videos than play than watch the videos than play and so on and so on. that aint the reason i paid 50 euros for this game! and im starting to get really aggrevated

[_Lynx]

This may happen on PCs with certain integrated audio cards. In this case open My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Config\UTEngine.ini and look for the section called [Engine.ISVHacks] there change the line PumpWindowMessagesWhenRenderThreadStalled=False to PumpWindowMessagesWhenRenderThreadStalled=True.

Edit: Damn, guys, just read the supplied readme file - it says clearly:

Some issues with C Media or other sound drivers cause the game to stop while playing a movie: Follow these steps for a workaround -
1. Open UTGame/Config/UTEngine.ini
2. Set PumpWindowMessagesWhenRenderThreadStalled=True instead of False.

[mnz]

listen to Lynx, that helped me!
if you're still having problems, try to go to your UTEngine.ini and set:
bInitializeShadersOnDemand=True

there seem to be some problems, too.

[cynderrr]

i know i fixed it myself a couple of alot of hours ago.
and that aint nothing with DUDE READ THE READ ME!
in the read me there ist something for soundcards which i do not have i have a
onboard soundcard and alsow there is a problem description for geforce 7900 but i have a 7800 so that read me help nuttn!
but still i can now play cya

[Cor3]

hmm...perhaps the game has problems with the c-media onboard cards...but i had that problem, too and i use a Creative X-FI Xtreme Music and no onboard cards.

[Rambo64]

Yea man I was really upset when this happened too. My specs are pretty much all the same. When I start the campaign, it freezes during the first 5 seconds of the cinematics, but not always in the same spot. It also loops the last sound that was played when it froze. I really hope they come out with a patch that can fix this.

[[YS]Alienz]

Open the UTEngine.ini (My Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Config) and change PumpWindowMessagesWhenRenderThreadStalled=False to PumpWindowMessagesWhenRenderThreadStalled=True

Worked flawlessly for me after having the SAME issue. Found it here:
http://utforums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=585669