I just got UT2K4 and installed it, and the maps all look....... wrong.
Anything in a shadow is totally, 100% BLACK. None of the video settings seem to have any effect; the in-game brightness slider only affects the visible portions of the view, not the parts in the shadows; the shadows are always black. The gamma adjustment makes NO difference at all, in fact.
---Now it is true that the current computer is rather old, something like 5 years, Win98 on a 1.2 Ghz T-bird, 256meg DDR ram with what -might- be a 32-meg ATI videocard, but the videocard does DirectX. I think the mobo's FSB is 233 Mhz. And the problem here is not that the view is to choppy or anything else, just that the dark areas in all the maps are too dark. I keep getting killed while trying to walk into walls, because I can't tell if a dark area is a doorway or a wall, because I cannot see anything in the dark shadow areas.
???
The whole game installed without a problem and runs correctly, there's no error messages or other problems. It's not a problem with the monitor or videocard; this computer works fine for everything else and for instance I see a dramatic difference with UT-GOTY if I change the in-game brightness and gamma settings. As of yet I have not downloaded any of the patches, expansion deals or mods--this is just the first day of playing it. I notice that even though my videocard does OpenGL, UT2K4 doesn't list it as an option, it only shows DirectX and software--does teh game support OpenGL?
Is there something here I have not done, or is this just the way the makers decided things should look from now on? And if "it just looks that way", where can I find a mod to turn on the d4m lights?
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Also:
I realize people gotta get paid and all, but has anyone here cracked the "insert-Play-CD" business? You don't need to say how to do it, I am just wondering if anyone has. This is a major annoyance, and I'd rather not put up with it....
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Anything in a shadow is totally, 100% BLACK. None of the video settings seem to have any effect; the in-game brightness slider only affects the visible portions of the view, not the parts in the shadows; the shadows are always black. The gamma adjustment makes NO difference at all, in fact.
---Now it is true that the current computer is rather old, something like 5 years, Win98 on a 1.2 Ghz T-bird, 256meg DDR ram with what -might- be a 32-meg ATI videocard, but the videocard does DirectX. I think the mobo's FSB is 233 Mhz. And the problem here is not that the view is to choppy or anything else, just that the dark areas in all the maps are too dark. I keep getting killed while trying to walk into walls, because I can't tell if a dark area is a doorway or a wall, because I cannot see anything in the dark shadow areas.
???
The whole game installed without a problem and runs correctly, there's no error messages or other problems. It's not a problem with the monitor or videocard; this computer works fine for everything else and for instance I see a dramatic difference with UT-GOTY if I change the in-game brightness and gamma settings. As of yet I have not downloaded any of the patches, expansion deals or mods--this is just the first day of playing it. I notice that even though my videocard does OpenGL, UT2K4 doesn't list it as an option, it only shows DirectX and software--does teh game support OpenGL?
Is there something here I have not done, or is this just the way the makers decided things should look from now on? And if "it just looks that way", where can I find a mod to turn on the d4m lights?
-------------------
Also:
I realize people gotta get paid and all, but has anyone here cracked the "insert-Play-CD" business? You don't need to say how to do it, I am just wondering if anyone has. This is a major annoyance, and I'd rather not put up with it....
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