Ultron's UT3 Tweaks

[Ultron]

Thanks to Ickle for posting this about the Pipeswitch binding.

Bindings=(Name="PipeX",Command="switchweapon A | setbind KEY PipeY")
Bindings=(Name="PipeY",Command="switchweapon B | setbind KEY PipeX")

Bindings=(Name="KEY",Command="PipeX")

This works now. I am on Patch beta 2.

[Ultron]

From the man, himself, on the issue of settings being not being saved.

If none of your settings are saving, it could be the game isn't creating the \my documents\my games\unreal tournament 3 folder. We've seen this occur if you move the \my documents folder off of c:.

A solution has been to add -nohomedir to your shortcut launching the game. This causes all configuration files to be kept local to where you installed the game, rather than the my documents folder.

Hope that helps.

On the key-only re-entry issue, we're making progress on our end.

Thanks Jeff!

[Ultron]

For anyone with a Nvidia 6800 Go video chipset on a notebook:

after a long weekend at a LAN we probably found the reason for my Crash-problem. Unfortunately, NVidia does not support the graphicscard of my notebook any longer. There are no new drivers for my 6800 Go ULTRA. So i took a look around the internet and i found sumthin interesting.

nVidia drivers are based on a system called Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) which means all nVidia card drivers are using one driver. However for some reasons, they just remove the support for installing those drivers for some cards, and mostly laptop-based GO cards.

So, for Users with a DELL Inspiron XPS like me, download the newest Forceware here and click on "Moddet INF" too. After downloading, extract the new patch in a directory on ur HDD and move the "Moddet INF" to the folder where u have extracted the Patch. OVERWRITE the old INF. Then install the patch. Maybe u will get a error, accounting the patch cannot find a file. i skipped that and it worked.

So, i hope this will help some of u guys.

[Kyllian]

[QUOTE=Ultron;25112524]
Again, in the UTEngine.ini:

[Engine.Engine]
bAllowMatureLanguage=FalseThere are 2 instances of that in the UTEngine.Ini by the way. Under Engine.Engine and UTEditor.UTUnrealEdEngine
I don't know if the second one has any effect outside of UEd, but if someone wants to turn it off, they can do such

[Ultron]

Found the link to the latest version of UT3Bench 2.0.45, which works on the retail version.

Here's a good benchmarking tool for the retail version of the game.

[Ultron]

didn't change anything

Sorry to hear about that.

[Ultron]

To run benchmarks:

Click HERE for one method of doing it without a tool.

Click HERE for a tool that lets you benchmark as well.

[krazychiller]

didn't change anything

[Ultron]

A possible fix for online lag and connection problems.

Also just FYI, I used to have terrible stuttering, lag, and disconnection problems in certain games (UT2004 included) that turned out to be cause by the Windows QoS Packet Scheduler. Go to the properties for your connection and just untick the box. If this doesn't change anything, you should probably turn it back on, at least for now.

[Ultron]

To disable sound, according to Momo, one or both of these options need to be set to false. I'll do some testing to find out for sure.

[Engine.Engine]
bUseSound=False

and

[Engine.GameEngine]
bUseSound=False

[Ultron]

Hi,
i'm crying quite a time in this forum that my UT won't stop crashing i've a ATI Radeon X1800XT and AMD athlon 3800+ CPU, when i start the game UT stucks and i get a blackscreen after this my monitor says he gets no signal any more this happens after several minutes in the game's menu or after several seconds after starting a map i tried nearly everything i found (I can't even play on 320x200 resolution) any possible fixes would be nice

Here are some options you might try:

Edit the UTEngine.ini which can be found in My Documents\MyGames\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Config.

[Engine.ISVHacks]
DisableATITextureFilterOptimizationChecks=False
bInitializeShadersOnDemand=True
PumpWindowMessagesWhenRenderThreadStalled=True

...and then...

[SystemSettings]
OnlyStreamInTextures=True

Let us know if that works.

Also, if you still have problems, try the other tweaks in my thread, listed in my sig below.

[Ultron]

Hey Paladin just letting you know, I tried that and the -nosound option isn't working. Sounds are still there. Weird.

[krazychiller]

Hi,
i'm crying quite a time in this forum that my UT won't stop crashing i've a ATI Radeon X1800XT and AMD athlon 3800+ CPU, when i start the game UT stucks and i get a blackscreen after this my monitor says he gets no signal any more this happens after several minutes in the game's menu or after several seconds after starting a map i tried nearly everything i found (I can't even play on 320x200 resolution) any possible fixes would be nice

[PALADiN]

Here's how to add the -nosound option to UT3.

1. Right-click on your desktop shortcut for UT3.
2. Go to "Properties"
3. In the "Target" field add -nosound then click OK

[Ultron]

Interesting. I just tried it too with no effect. It used to work for previous versions of UT.