UT3 full crashes like the demo

[bmd]

Here's my fix for the crashing issue. I think the game crashes because of some issue with Xfi, well, mine did anyway.

[skank]

Gears of War, UT III demo, UT III retail, all freeze at splash screen unless I disable X-Fi audio.
Using onboard audio instead of X-Fi works fine, both games load and play great, so it must be related to X-Fi somehow.

System: Asus P5K dlx Wi-Fi AP, Core 2 Q6600, 4Gb OCZ RAM, 8800GTX, X-Fi XtremeMusic, Windows Vista x86 (32-bit), all latest drivers installed (tried multiple versions).

As I am running 32bit OS my useable system RAM is 3326mb.

[VIOLATER]

Here's my fix for the crashing issue. I think the game crashes because of some issue with Xfi, well, mine did anyway.

Gears of War, UT III demo, UT III retail, all freeze at splash screen unless I disable X-Fi audio.
Using onboard audio instead of X-Fi works fine, both games load and play great, so it must be related to X-Fi somehow.

System: Asus P5K dlx Wi-Fi AP, Core 2 Q6600, 4Gb OCZ RAM, 8800GTX, X-Fi XtremeMusic, Windows Vista x86 (32-bit), all latest drivers installed (tried multiple versions).

As I am running 32bit OS my useable system RAM is 3326mb.

I had the same issue. I figured that out last weekend. Nobody else but me that seemed to help.. Well, until now anyway.

[VIOLATER]

Are you silly Epic Games ?

Gears of War crashed here on splashscreen.

If i disable my X-Fi Fatalaty the game runs good.

UT 3 Demo crashes here on splashscreen.

If i disable my X-Fi Fatalaty the game runs good.

UT 3 German Fullversion crashes here on splashscreen.

If i disable my X-Fi Fatalaty the game runs good.


What the hell you doing there ? Drinking coffee all the day ?

I have the newest Creative soundcard driver installed. I am running Vista 64 bit.

Log: Log file open, 11/13/07 11:49:23
Init: Version: 3487
Init: Epic Internal: 0
Init: Compiled: Oct 21 2007 03:16:06
Init: Command line: 
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Log: GConfig::LoadFile has loaded file:  ..\UTGame\Config\UTEngine.ini
Log: GConfig::LoadFile has loaded file:  ..\UTGame\Config\UTGame.ini
Log: GConfig::LoadFile has loaded file:  ..\UTGame\Config\UTInput.ini
Log: GConfig::LoadFile has loaded file:  ..\UTGame\Config\UTUI.ini
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Init: Object subsystem initialized
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Init: WinSock: I am Desktop (192.168.1.2:0)
Init: Startup System Settings:
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Init: Friendly System Settings:
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Init: 	RemoteDesktop=0
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Init: 	MaxSpeed: 3005
Init: 	CurrentSpeed: 3005
Init: 	CoresPerProcessor: 4
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Init: 	ScreenPercentage=100
Init: 	UpscaleScreenPercentage=1
Init: 	ResX=1280
Init: 	ResY=1024
Init: 	Fullscreen=1
Init: Writing new compatibility level to ini. Composite: 5. CPU: 5. GPU: 5.
Log: Initializing FaceFX...
Log: FaceFX initialized:
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Log:     li

I have posted in this thread and other ones regarding game freezing a couple weeks ago. I also recently got GoW and I have the same issue as this guy. As long as I use my onboard sound "Realtek" I run great. If I try using my X-Fi I freeze either during the start-up of the game or shortly after I load a level. I don't think the Unreal 3 Engine likes X-Fi cards or drivers. Either Epic or Creative needs to come out with a fix for this. I had reinstalled UT2K4 & my X-Fi runs fine. That uses the Unreal 2 Engine.

[upNsmokeISaGOD]

Unreal 3 Engine should still be in the RC stage cause Biohazard , Gears of War and now UT3 are nothing buy buggy and full of Many different Issues from many different people so it can not be the users it has to be the makers.

[RedruM-X]

Unreal 3 Engine should still be in the RC stage cause Biohazard , Gears of War and now UT3 are nothing buy buggy and full of Many different Issues from many different people so it can not be the users it has to be the makers.

It's called Bioshock pipo.