Error when loading game

[soldierusa]

I need help on Unreal Tournament 3. I loaded the game on my computer but it seems not to work when i click on the icon an error message pops up which says UT3.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. I need help is something wrong with the program or what.

[WorldEaterZ]

I would try reinstalling it. That is such a vague error it could be anything.

[soldierusa]

I tried to load the game at least 5 times and it keeps giving me the same error

[ins4n3.]

Reinstall it...if the problem continues after that...dunno what can it be.WorldEaterZ is kinda right.

[soldierusa]

maybe its the software? I dont know

[ambershee]

You're missing an important library, such as the .Net framework.

[Permafried-]

From the Tracked Issues sticket if you're using ATI hardware:

UT.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close: A crash right at launch.
Status: OPEN (2 solutions available)
Solution: If using ATI hardware, ensure "Support DXT Texture Formats" in the Catalyst Control Centre is enabled (3D --> More Settings).
Solution: If using ATI hardware, in the utengine.ini set the following values:
Under [Engine.ISVHacks]
set: DisableATITextureFilterOptimizationChecks=False
set: bInitializeShadersOnDemand=True
set: PumpWindowMessagesWhenRenderThreadStalled=True
Under [SystemSettings]
set: OnlyStreamInTextures=True
Main Thread: http://utforums.epicgames.com/showth...ighlight=crash

[HeXoR]

I tried your both solution and still message is coming

[soldierusa]

I am still getting the same problem I dont know what else to do

[Daamster]

I got this in my launch.log

Critical: appError called:
Critical: Result failed
at .\Src\D3D9Device.cpp:634
with error D3DERR_INVALIDCALL
Critical: Windows GetLastError: /*Something in swedish, translated to english: You cant create a file that already exists*/ (183)
Log: === Critical error: ===
Result failed at .\Src\D3D9Device.cpp:634 with error D3DERR_INVALIDCALL

Anyone got a clue about this?
Thanking you in advance

[Permafried-]

I got this in my launch.log

Critical: appError called:
Critical: Result failed
at .\Src\D3D9Device.cpp:634
with error D3DERR_INVALIDCALL
Critical: Windows GetLastError: /*Something in swedish, translated to english: You cant create a file that already exists*/ (183)
Log: === Critical error: ===
Result failed at .\Src\D3D9Device.cpp:634 with error D3DERR_INVALIDCALL

Anyone got a clue about this?
Thanking you in advance

Yuck, an invalid call to D3D9Device...if I'm not mistaken (unless Epic wrote a wrapper) that's at the DirectX API layer and in all my years of developing with it I have NEVER encountered this one. Are you running Windows XP or VISTA? What video hardware are you using, this could be a driver issue which may have been addressed with a future release.

HeXoR and soldier...do either of you have a launch.log or equivalent in your UT folder that may help us out...without any sort of error code I'm grabbing at straws.

[Daamster]

Sorry about the delay.

I am running WindowsXP Pro SP2.
I have a Sapphire Radeon X1600Pro, and it seems that it only supports DirectX 9.0c. So i guess that it is the problem.
Thanks for helping the noob(me)=P