New Nvidia Drivers Fixes UT3 Crashes

[Jonze]

thanks allot alterid for your guide - the problem is now solved
I deleted all the files from documents and than i installed nVidia physX driver!

regards

[KriLL3.8™]

If you're ever curious to try new beta drivers: http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?id=32

They also list WHQL ones, best source I've found, that link is to the Vista Nvidia ones, can browse from there to get to the 7/XP/ATI drivers etc.

[SkaarjMaster]

again i wanna repeat what i did...if all else fails just delete your Mydocuments config directory. this fixes the issue for a lot of people. ut will rewrite the ini files with the latest settings. though u may get away with just deleting a few files like utgame.ini, utengine.ini, etc, removing the whole directory makes sure you get em all.

Please keep in mind that your solutions sound promising only for Vista64 users. I appreciate your solution and will try it soon for WinXP SP2 32-bit. Is this still for only 182.08 or have you tried another one since then?

texhead, are all your other games still working with 178.24 and XP? did you try any other drivers that work with UT3?

alterid, what operating system and Nvidia drivers were involved with this "magic"?

I'm trying to run UT3 with the following configuration and it crashes without getting past splash screen on my new system (I still have to install all the latest stuff though, only patched through 1.3 right now):

OS: WinXP SP2
CPU: Intel Core2Duo E8600 Wolfdale
MB: Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P
HS: Noctua NH-C12P
RAM: Corsair 4GB(2x2GB) 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM 1066 (PC2 8500) TWIN2X4096-8500C5
VIDEO CARD: EVGA Nvidia GTX 280 (1GB) >> running 182.06 now!
PSU: Enermax Revolution85+ ERV850EWT 850W
HD: 2 WD 1TB internal drives (external Seagate disconnected for now)

Before I update my video drivers I'll try patching to the latest including the Titan Pack and then if that doesn't work then try the tricks mentioned in this thread. Thank you.

[SkaarjMaster]

Looks like UT3 works now! And I didn't even have to change video drivers!

I tried deleting those 3 files and also the whole Config subd and either got same BSOD or UT3.exe has encountered problem errors, respectively. I then installed the Patch 2.0, Titan Pack and Patch 2.1 and rebooted between each update, restarted, got fancy new splash screen, but same BSOD. I was pretty disappointed by now and thought I would have to reinstall video drivers, but I decided to try the deleting the 3 files again (UTGame.ini, UTEngine.ini and UTEditor.ini) and I got in the game and played one DM match all the way through without changing my settings, rebooted, changed the settings to 1920x1200 etc., then played another match all the way through, rebooted, played another match, did not reboot, UT3 started again, played another match, rebooted, left AntiVir free anti-virus running this time and still was able to play.

UT3 is working for me now with the 182.06 drivers! Hope everyone else gets it running. Now I need to add the custom content and tweak my install.

EDIT: it didn't work again and now it's working again. Apparently, it had nothing to do with the video drivers but UT3 screwed up when I enabled Hardware OpenAL which I fixed by renaming the OpenGL files in the Binaries/Config subd so that both are the same files (whichever one is larger in size). Not sure how this works, but it does.

[Sebban]

Any solution for laptop ?

As somebody sugested in my topic: http://utforums.epicgames.com/showth...5#post26655385

This driver is not for laptop.

[Gunwing]

How about you just select notbook drivers, and find out if your video card is support eh? It's a pretty easy system to understand you know. (Not trying to be mean just use your head man.......)

[Sebban]

How about you just select notbook drivers, and find out if your video card is support eh? It's a pretty easy system to understand you know. (Not trying to be mean just use your head man.......)

There is no version for notebooks that matches the one thats been recomanded in this topic.
However Ive found there oldest beta 179.28 and giving it a try at the moment.

[Sebban]

There is no version for notebooks that matches the one thats been recomanded in this topic.
However Ive found there oldest beta 179.28 and giving it a try at the moment.

That didnt worked. Game frozen after some random time and I had to restart the machine.

Im still searching for a solution for laptop.
If anybody could aid me in my searches, please do so.

[Unreal4Eva]

Works for me!

[Cosmicjerk]

Hello everyone I hope someone here can solve my problom.

I seem to be having an issue, everytime I start the game. just as I log in the game crashes on me, and there isnt a damn thing I can do because as soon as it gets to the log in screen it crashes....everytime...my drivers are up to date my computer should be able enough to run this game I dont understand why it crashes, I even went ahead and got the most recent patches.
I have:Windows 86x, 3.5 gigs of ram,3.30ghz Duel Core Processor,and a galaxy 9500GT 512MB. not a great card but a good one,runs everything else I have.anyone here know why the game crashes?? please help! I wanna play unreal!

[Lord. Dela]

Hello everyone I hope someone here can solve my problom.

I seem to be having an issue, everytime I start the game. just as I log in the game crashes on me, and there isnt a damn thing I can do because as soon as it gets to the log in screen it crashes....everytime...my drivers are up to date my computer should be able enough to run this game I dont understand why it crashes, I even went ahead and got the most recent patches.
I have:Windows 86x, 3.5 gigs of ram,3.30ghz Duel Core Processor,and a galaxy 9500GT 512MB. not a great card but a good one,runs everything else I have.anyone here know why the game crashes?? please help! I wanna play unreal!

Try removing the my games folder and you generate a new

[kobalt57]

i have window 7 64 bit the game is in X86 32 bit so there shouldn't be any problems i was able to play it till recently, i had a windows update now when i enter a map poof i go back to desktop this really sucks epic

well i take that back it's not "not" being able to play that sucks it's knowing how the peoples who took everyone's money for a game that barely boots dont seem to care enough to fix it

[Unreal4Eva]

i have a 32 bit Windows 7 and UT3 runs well with the Nvidia 266.58 Drivers. I haven't have any crashes since I installed them.

[MvTCracker]

Hello I keep having unreal tournament 3.exe crash just before games load I have installed the newest driver and the unreal 3 patch and it sometimes works but other times crash GeForce 7300 GT from EVGA windows 7 32bit.

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