Ultron's UT3 Tweaks

[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.

[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....

[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]

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]

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.

[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)

[Ultron]

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

[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

[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

[Ultron]

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

[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]

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]

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.

[krazychiller]

didn't change anything

[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.