UT Problem

[Alaron]

I started up Unreal Tournament (original, not 2003) the other day and noticed that my graphics were off. I found that I needed to run the game in OpenGL, instead of Direct3d. The game looks much better, no jaggies, but it is very dark. I have tried the Brightness controls in the game and on my monitor, to no avail. I have version 436 and my system is in my signature. Any ideas? TIA

[MonkeyBlitch]

Try to uninstall and reinstall.

[DragonNOA1]

u have brightness up all the way in the game and on your monitor and it's still too dark?

[Alaron]

I have tried a reinstall, even with a friends disk and the problem persists. The monitor brightness is up and I couldnt see a difference in game. Otherwise I could. The Brightness slider in the game has been put at every setting, and none of them look any different. I have a feeling it is my new card, 9700, having trouble with such an old game. Any ideas? I am definetly stumped. TIA

[MonkeyBlitch]

I play UT on a Radeon 7000 prefect and no prob's here. Check the manual or go to the UT website.

[Xayd]

http://koti.mbnet.fi/parru/index3.htm

Give that one a try.

There never was an "official" OpenGL renderer for UT, Epic released the source for a very basic one that they made and others have improved on it, so just look around til you find a third party one that works well for your card.

I use the one above on my Radeon 9500 Pro and it works great.

[Alaron]

Thanks a bunch Xayd, that did the trick. The game looks much better now.

[Ryan2318]

i know your problem is fixed but did you try turning gamma up? thats really more effective than brightness

[Alaron]

I hadn't tried that. I looked in the game and there doesn't seem to be an option for Gamma, just Brightness. Thanks for the idea though.

[Ryan2318]

i just have the demo of it, but it should be there right above brightness or below it or something....

basically it increases the amount of actual light in the game and rendering it in the game. not just making the screen really white and messed up looking like brightness does. if you wanted you could actually cheat in a way in a game by maxing that out cause you could see everything where there should instead be pitch black. just more light and mroe visibility

[Alaron]

Thanks for the info. I checked again, it is definetly not there. Xayd's patch did that trick though. Reading through some of the fixes, it mentions patching the Gamma in game.

[Ryan2318]

heheh see. i wonder why the full version of the game doesn't have that.. it should let people set it to their own preferences... ohwell i just have the demo lol

[Sam Havard]

there is some kind of website like www.cpukiller.com that has to do with old games running with new video cards stronger than them

[RodneyMargis]

i odnt think he would have to lower his speed to play unreal. the main reason fro a program like cpukiller is to play old dos games on a new system

[Sam Havard]

true very true