Unreal Tournament GOTY Edition Video Problems

[Guest]

I have Unreal Tournament GOTY Edition, Windows XP, a Dell 1.2 GHZ Inspiron Laptop, 32 MB
NVidia GForce 2GO Video Card, and 512 MB RAM. I am having problems with my video. I
installed XP on my system since it came with Windows ME. After I installed XP I proceeded to
install my video drivers provided by Dell for my video card. Everything works fine except the fact
that when I play UT it runs fast as hell and it drives me nuts. All of the settings are normal and I
even tried alternating through all of the resolution/16-32-bit modes. My laptop seems to work
best in 1024x768 with 32-bit resolution mode. I also downloaded the patch for UT, but that
does nothing at all. I downloaded the update drivers for my video card too from NVidia's
website, but that does nothing either. I also tried to run the game under compatibility mode
for Windows 98/ME, but that doesnt work either. If anyone else is having similar problems and
can help, please feel free to.

[Guest]

What you said works, but I have an additional problem. I find that my computer varies in speed from time to time. I think that's the main problem. I set the unrealtournament.log file to 1200 mhz and when I restart my computer it'll adjust to the speed of the computer. I need to somehow make my computer always run at 1.2 ghz instead of this conservative crap its doing.

[NutWrench]

There might be some kind of power-conservation setting involved, here. Some computers have a power management toggle in the BIOS settings as well as in Windows.

Do the speed variations happen after a certain amount of time passes? (Like, a slowdown happens after EXACTLY 5 minutes, every time you start the game?) Or are they completely random? Do you have any other utilities running at the same time on your computer (especially virus checkers)? Disable them. images/icons/smile.gif

[ 03-14-2002, 01:51 PM: Message edited by: NutWrench ]

[Guest]

I think what I'll do instead of modifying my whole system and making it stay at maximum performance all of the time just so I can play UT some of the time, I'll just put a shortcut of the unrealtournament.log file on my desktop and then when I want to play I can just go to the log file and set it at 1200 MHz and let the system go from there.

[Roger]

UT: GOTYE works fine here... and I have Windows ME! images/icons/shocked.gif

[Guest]

When I had Windows ME, it was working fine. It's just the transition to XP that's causing problems

[NutWrench]

Sound like the old CPUSPEED problem that used to come up in notebooks running the original Unreal. Check the 'Unrealtournament.log' file in your UT/System directory (it's a regular text file) and see if the CPU speed is being reported correctly.

If it isn't, then try adding this to your UT shortcut: "-CPUSPEED=1200" (but without the quotes)

[Roger]

Maybe re-install? I dunno, I ain't a genius.