Help with UT3

[sickbastard67]

Thanks Epic for giving us a crappy expieriance. I've tried everything to get this game to stop freezing up. Nothing works!! Less than 1 min into Onyx Coast and freezes up. Instant action Deck map freezes 1 min into game. I'm just done with it. Very disappointing after all the wait.

[Sunshine]

im sorry for your problems, but this game is in no way crap. Either you havnt done enough research to try to get your comp to work, our your computer is too obsolete to run this high quality game.

Im glad you made such a productive post about it

[sickbastard67]

So how is it running for you? Give me some more ideas. Are you having freeze ups like the majority is having? I've had many post about this problem and listened to what people had to say and read all the stickys and tried all the tweaks. My system has more than enouph to run this game. How about you give a productive post and let us know how your experiance is or are you a share holder with Epic?

[alcom77]

So you tried the Driver Sweep like you said you would and no luck? If your colling fan is still stuck on 60% maybe try Speed Fan:
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

[sickbastard67]

Thanks alcom77. Is speed fan similar to RivaTuner? You've given me the best advice so far. I'm just really frustrated and want the game to run. How is the game running for you?

[Justme600]

In the beta demo forums search the technical problems...worked for me it works fine after tweaking your ini's abit

[sickbastard67]

OK. Here's what I just did I read some of Ultrons UT3 Tweaks. I tried this one [Engine.Engine] bUsesound=False and [Engine.GameEngine] bUsesound=False mine were set at True. I made it all the way through Onyx Coast without a hiccop but without any sound. How do i get some sound back without getting into freeze ups?

Hey Justme600 I see your from Holland. I spent 2 weeks at shusterburg air force base and traveled around amsterdam and I believe its called amersfort. Beautiful country. I'd love to go back.

[RUKKUS]

i dont want to be a jerk but its not epics fault or the games fault considering other people play it fine..

[Warhead]

Sounds like a sound card issue. Have you updated your sound card drivers? I know in other games, I could not launch them because they didnt like the sound driver I was using.

[sickbastard67]

You don't sound like a jerk RUKKUS and your right its most likely not epics fault. I'm just really getting frustrated. Thanks warhead i'll see about my sound card driver and my appologies to Epic games.

[sickbastard67]

Just found an update for my sound card. Installed new driver... we'll see how things go. Thanks again.

[alcom77]

Thanks alcom77. Is speed fan similar to RivaTuner? You've given me the best advice so far. I'm just really frustrated and want the game to run. How is the game running for you?

OK. Here's what I just did I read some of Ultrons UT3 Tweaks. I tried this one [Engine.Engine] bUsesound=False and [Engine.GameEngine] bUsesound=False mine were set at True. I made it all the way through Onyx Coast without a hiccop but without any sound. How do i get some sound back without getting into freeze ups?

Hey Justme600 I see your from Holland. I spent 2 weeks at shusterburg air force base and traveled around amsterdam and I believe its called amersfort. Beautiful country. I'd love to go back.

If it is indeed a sound issue, most people benefit from disabling hardware OpenAL audio in UT3's settings menu. One guy changed the settings right his UTEngine.ini file as follows:

went to
(My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Config\UTEngine.ini)
changed UTEngine.ini under [ALAudio.ALAudioDevice]

from:

MaxChannels=32
UseEffectsProcessing=true
TimeBetweenHWUpdates=15
MinOggVorbisDurationGame=20
MinOggVorbisDurationEditor=4
DeviceName=

to:

MaxChannels=128
UseEffectsProcessing=true
TimeBetweenHWUpdates=15
MinOggVorbisDurationGame=25
MinOggVorbisDurationEditor=4
DeviceName=SB X-Fi Audio [CC00]

UT3 with openAL enabled has yet to crash since the settings were changed.

[sickbastard67]

I changed engine.engine [bUsesound=false] and engine.gameEngine [bUsesound=false] back to =true and now game is stuck on the Login page. Thats as far as it goes.

[sickbastard67]

Game made it past the login page. Went to Onyx Coast and everything runs great now. Hmmm. Lets hope it stays that way. sweet.

[DrFish]

What did you change then? No sound is unacceptable, soldier !

[sickbastard67]

I changed [bUsesound=false] back to =true in Engine.Engine and Engine.GameEngine which game me my sound back. Sir No sound is definately unacceptable Col. Fish Sir!

[N4G-Violater]

im sorry for your problems, but this game is in no way crap. Either you havnt done enough research to try to get your comp to work, our your computer is too obsolete to run this high quality game.

Im glad you made such a productive post about it

I'm playing it on my PS3 is that obsolete too?

[Pikeoo7]

To whomever said it is not Epic's fault: How can you say that? One of the most popular sound cards out there is almost (and in some cases, totally) unable to work with the game. Who in their right mind releases a game with a flaw like that? But that's not the only one. This game has so many bugs I feel like I am playing an early Beta. It should have been tested more and vetted for longer before asking people to hand over $50 for a game that *might* work properly, and might not.