Ultron's UT3 Tweaks

[peppybb]

Also you might try disabling sound by using the -nosound option and see if the problem occurs then. .

Hmm option doesn't seem to work here, i use "E:\Unreal Tournament 3\Binaries\UT3.exe" -nosound but i still get sound.
How do i use the -nosound option ? (Saves me the ini editing)

[PALADiN]

Just tried rebuilding my UTEngine.ini file. Had no effect.

The world and texture detail settings are already set to 1.

I've also tried other maps and they play normally. It's only Deck that has this problem.

[Ultron]

Okay yeah I am sure it's a video card issue then, or perhaps something else. Not sound, however.

One thing to try is back up or delete your UTEngine.ini file and let the game rebuild it. You'll have to reinput your CD key but maybe that can help eliminate the problem by going back to the basics.

Another thing, you could try setting the world and texture detail settings down to 1/1 and see if that helps.

[PALADiN]

Using the -nosound option didn't help. The game still crashed.

My system specs:
CPU: AMD Sempron 2400
RAM: 512MB
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon 9600SE 128MB
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1
OS: Windows XP Pro x86 (with all updates applied)

I did see a possible fix in somebody's sig for this problem but I don't know whose sig it was.

[Ultron]

Is there a workaround for the problem where the game seems to freeze on Deck yet the ambient sounds continue to play?

I've already installed patch 1.1.

None that I know of specifically, though my general advice is:

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

[Engine.ISVHacks]
bInitializeShadersOnDemand=True
PumpWindowMessagesWhenRenderThreadStalled=True

...and then...

[SystemSettings]
OnlyStreamInTextures=True
OneFrameThreadLag=True

Also you might try disabling sound by using the -nosound option and see if the problem occurs then. If that fixes the problem, then it could be an OpenAL issue. Disable that in the Audio settings section in-game.

Edit: What I mean is, if you no longer get any freezes in Deck with the sound disabled, then it's an audio problem. If it's an audio problem our first guess is always, disable OpenAL and then launch the game with sounds again. See if that helps.

Also, here is an update from kitch.

Update videocard to 169.25 drivers. Download latest openAL from here...

http://developer.creative.com/articl...&top=38&aid=46

Install it.

Copy OpenAL32.dll and wrap_oal.dll from your system32 folder to your UT3 Binaries folder, making sure you replace the old ones.

Enable hardware openAL ingame and see if you still have issues....

[Ultron]

Instructions on how to disable your hardware firewall on your router, for troubleshooting purposes:

If you double-click on your network connection icon in the taskbar, and click on the Support tab, you'll see the Default Gateway has a certain IP Address number. You can most likely log into that IP address by typing it in your web browser. That's the control panel for your hardware firewall. Log in (you may have to set a password if you've never logged into it before) and then look around to disable the firewall.

Again this is just for testing network connection issues, but if you have a really cheap router (like me) you pretty much just have the option to enable or disable it. But see if the problem persists afterwards.

[PALADiN]

Is there a workaround for the problem where the game seems to freeze on Deck yet the ambient sounds continue to play?

I've already installed patch 1.1.

[Ultron]

Ah it's a sticky so it's already at the top. Thanks for the consideration, though.

Just an FYI, to those of you who are interested. I plan on rewriting my opening post here, to be more clear, and inclusive of the fixes that have gone on. So bear with me it might be a day or more before I get to it. But any constructive criticism would be appreciated in the meantime, to anyone who thinks of any more changes to it.

Thank you in advance!

[DeathmooN]

bumped for usefulness.

[Ultron]

If you have getting the nv4_disp error: (as found HERE)

Whenever I open up UT3 it will get through the advertisements of like epic games and intel. but whenever it gets to the click anywhere screen it shuts off. and a blue screen comes up on my computer.

The Error Is :

The File : nv4_disp
The device driver hot stuck in a infinite loop. This udually indicates the problem with the device itself or with the device driver programming the hardware incorrectly.

technical information :

***STOP: 0x000000EA (0x85986008,0xf4e8cbc, 0x00000001)

nv4_disp
Begginning dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete

The solution is:

Check out this guy's article on the NVIDIA nv4_disp problem:

http://www.christopherjason.com/arti...4disp-problem/

[Ultron]

In this thread:

Can't play anything other then single player!

There was the following problem:

I go to instant action. I setup my game rules, # of bots, difficulty, etc. When I get to the screent hat says begin mission I click yes and then I hear the noise that sounds off when the map is supposed to load. But thats all that happens! I just get a sound. Its actually kinda funny. No map loads and I stare at the menu. So I go to see if Singleplayer will work and it does.

i cant see any server online in the UT3 Lobby, i also cant instant action!! There are altime 0 Servers shown It happens with every gametype! SHOW FULL/SHOW EMPTY/SHOW LOCKED is selected.

And here is the solution:

if you have the problem, that you jumping back to menu while you logged in and try to start a multiplayer or single match, try this:

Remove all special characters from your login Name, then try again.

True for Demo und Full.

Restart of pc or Game are not neccasary.

Credit to Bender for this info.

[Ultron]

Regarding the issue where the audio tracks are not playing back during the campaign videos:

Ok In fact I used ffdshow in my pc (a popular codec) that decodes most of video formats. It seems this codec was used in background to playback the movies but certainly not correctly.

In the options of this codec there is a way to exclude some exe from using ffdshow. I added ut3.exe in this exclusion list and the sound came back.

[Ultron]

A possible fix for UnrealEd crashes:

The editor kept crashing on launch. Finally I was able to launch it once I turned off D3D Tripple Buffering enabled via Rivatuner's little Direct3D utility.

[Kitsune]

Thanks Ultron for posting all the info. It helped

[Grim]

OnlyStreamInTextures=True

Try that.

Thank you will try that tonight