INI performance & graphics tweaks here

[Brad.G]

try the UT3 tweaker in my sig

8000 downloads since march cant be wrong

[sonny181]

Guys my graphics look like ****. Looks like the kinda graphics i had on my nintendo 64, on a game called doom 64.





Can someone tell me what tweaks i need to do to make it look normal, I have a NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS. 32 bit

[XEDR]

@MTL

Geforce 8+ doesn't use 16-bit anymore. It's all just a clipped color range, which is why old games look like **** on 16-bit on these cards (and the new Radeons).
As for the Radeons... they were always the same speed in 16-bit vs 32-bit.

Nowadays Unreal Engine 3 by default uses 64-bit precision and "turning HDR off" does NOT affect it in any way. You'd be just changing exposure/post-processing settings that way.

[MTL]

I tried to enable 16Bit support. Maybe i will find a solution. Would be cool if Epic enables 16Bit support, so maybe older grafic-cards will run very fast. It will disable HDR and 24Bit Z-Buffer, so it would not look as good as in 32Bit, but it will run very fast. On Nvidia it will increase FPS dramatically, on ATI it is possible to select a higher resolution with the same framerate.

16Bit textures are fine, too. Little quality loss, but it saves RAM/GPU Ram.

I cant seem to figure out how to get this to work and would like to try it. Do i just change my display settings on my desktop to 16bit? I tried but didnt notice a visual or performance difference during play. Is there an ini line tweak for this?

[NiMiTz998]

when i try to save the BaseEngine.ini file it says "cannot create the C:\Program Files\Unreal Tournament 3\Engine\Config\Base Engine.ini File Make sure the path and file name are correct" whats up

[UejYi]

bump some people would still like to refer to some of this here. Any binds yet?

[Benfica]

This is interesting: http://www.tweakguides.com/UT3_7.html

The game engine is capped to a maximum framerate, as determined by the value of the MaxSmoothedFrameRate variable (see below), which is 62FPS by default. This is done by the developers to prevent FPS spikes and thus provide smoother performance. However, by setting this option to True, you can completely remove this FPS cap. Keep in mind though that if you then find your framerate varying a great deal and causing jerkiness, this option is best set back to False. Uncapping your FPS doesn't increase overall performance as such, i.e. if you got 35 FPS in certain areas with the cap, you'll still do so without the cap.


MinSmoothedFrameRate=22
MaxSmoothedFrameRate=62


These settings control the framerate range between which the game engine attempts to smooth frames. As covered under the bSmoothFrameRate setting above, if that setting is set to True, the framerate limit specified by the value of MaxSmoothedFrameRate will be enforced. Although you can disable this FPS cap, ideally if you want smooth FPS but don't want the default 62FPS cap, one thing you can do is to set the MaxSmoothedFrameRate to a higher value, e.g. 85. It's usually best to set your FPS cap to match your Refresh Rate, since even with VSync disabled, any framerates above your monitor's refresh rate will simply be partial frames anyway. There's no reason why uncapping your FPS will necessarily provide you a better gameplay advantage, and in fact it may do the opposite due to greater FPS variability, so experiment to see if simply using a higher framerate cap is actually a better compromise of smoothness and performance.

http://www.tweakguides.com/UT3_8.html
CompositeDynamicLights=False. "true" gives more fps


OneFrameThreadLag=False. "true" may give more fps, because it's set to "False" on WorldDetail 5 and True on all others

[[FfFC]_-(MAD)-_]

I tried to enable 16Bit support. Maybe i will find a solution. Would be cool if Epic enables 16Bit support, so maybe older grafic-cards will run very fast. It will disable HDR and 24Bit Z-Buffer, so it would not look as good as in 32Bit, but it will run very fast. On Nvidia it will increase FPS dramatically, on ATI it is possible to select a higher resolution with the same framerate.

16Bit textures are fine, too. Little quality loss, but it saves RAM/GPU Ram.

[RaptorZX3]

here are the first options in the SystemSettings:

StaticDecals=False
DynamicDecals=False
DynamicLights=True
DynamicShadows=True
LightEnvironmentShadows=True
CompositeDynamicLights=False
DirectionalLightmaps=False

with these settings, i keep the shadows and the lights effects on the characters/vehicles/weapons while the lights effects doesn't appear on the map. Yes the textures look a bit less detailled because of this, but it still look good, and i gained a bit more FPS with that tweak).

tweaking the MaxAnisotropy can be a good idea to gain FPS too, like putting 16 to 8

what does the DetailMode option do? i didn't see a difference between 2 and 1

[AdenTallon]

Hump de BUMP ~RHCP

[RaptorZX3]

i just hope the full version of the game will be even more optimized than the beta demo.

[peppybb]

Basically, i have to turn down all quality settings and run at 128x800 in order to get acceptable fps(~100) I leave dynamic lights on so i can judge distance on shock rifle combos. My vid card does not support dx10, so i turn it off.

All this BS should be accessible in-game. This ini tweaking is soooo 1999. Step it up Epic!

Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3 Demo\UTGame\Config\UTEngine.ini

[Engine.GameEngine]
bSmoothFrameRate=False
MinSmoothedFrameRate=22
MaxSmoothedFrameRate=300
bClearAnimSetLinkupCachesOnLoadMap=TRUE

[SystemSettings]
StaticDecals=FALSE
DynamicDecals=FALSE
DynamicLights=true
DynamicShadows=FALSE
LightEnvironmentShadows=false
CompositeDynamicLights=False
DirectionalLightmaps=false
MotionBlur=FALSE
DepthOfField=FALSE
Bloom=FALSE
QualityBloom=FALSE
Distortion=FALSE
DropParticleDistortion=False
SpeedTreeLeaves=FALSE
SpeedTreeFronds=FALSE
OnlyStreamInTextures=True
LensFlares=FALSE
FogVolumes=FALSE
FloatingPointRenderTargets=true
Trilinear=FALSE
OneFrameThreadLag=False
UseVsync=False
UpscaleScreenPercentage=True
Fullscreen=True
AllowD3D10=FALSE
EnableHighPolyChars=FALSE
SkeletalMeshLODBias=0
ParticleLODBias=0
DetailMode=0
ShadowFilterQualityBias=1
MaxAnisotropy=0
MaxMultisamples=1
MinShadowResolution=32
MaxShadowResolution=512
ResX=1280
ResY=800
ScreenPercentage=100.000000
SceneCaptureStreamingMultiplier=1.000000
FoliageDrawRadiusMultiplier=1.000000
ShadowTexelsPerPixel=2.000000

Or you could run it in winxp and get twice that :P
seriously, i did it, got same specs only 1950pro

[RaptorZX3]

i was impressed how well BioShock was running on my computer, i thought it would drop dramatically in framerate, not at all!

[Ultron]

Yeah it's not the greatest system in the world, but it's been good to me.

I'm upgrading in February to something completely new, but until then this will have to get me by.

[RaptorZX3]

Athlon 64 3000+ on Socket 939?

i like the fact my 3700+ have 1mb of L2 cache.