Unreal Tournament / Q3A

[TDI]

Howdie Folks.

Any idea when the Z-Buffer errors will dissapear ???
It´s quite annoying to see / not to see textures in the distance or edges that look like stairways.

I don´t think that it´s just a Unreal Tournament (or Unreal or Unreal Addon) problem. I _once_ got rid of these errors, when I used the Beta ICD, but then I had bad clipping errors...

It would be very nice to see UT in its whole beauty.

BTW:
When using the TurboGL in Q3Arena I can´t see the models when I select a model for my player; when using the standard ICD the models are shown in the menu.
Furthermore the mirror in the veryfirst introduction arena shows a wrong texture when moving far away from it. Again, only when using the TurboGL...


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Salut,...
TDI

[TDI]

...sorry, that´s a "nofix" for me.
32-Bit Z-buffer is enabled, but no real improvement.


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Salut,...
TDI

[Maggi]

Hi TDI,

Don't know if it will help to fix your problem, but have a look into the OpenGLDrv.ini located in your UnrealTournament/System folder ...

Open it and copy'n'paste the following into that ini :
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[Matrox Graphics Inc./Matrox G400]
MinLogTextureSize=0
MaxLogTextureSize=11
MaxLogUOverV=11
MaxLogVOverU=11
UseZTrick=0
UseMultiTexture=1
UsePalette=0
DoPrecache=1
ShareLists=1
AlwaysMipmap=1

[Matrox Graphics Inc./Matrox TurboGL for G400]
MinLogTextureSize=0
MaxLogTextureSize=11
MaxLogUOverV=11
MaxLogVOverU=11
UseZTrick=0
UseMultiTexture=1
UsePalette=0
DoPrecache=1
ShareLists=1
AlwaysMipmap=1

[Matrox Graphics Inc./MGA-G200]
MinLogTextureSize=0
MaxLogTextureSize=10
MaxLogUOverV=10
MaxLogVOverU=10
UseZTrick=1
UseMultiTexture=1
UsePalette=0
DoPrecache=1
ShareLists=1
AlwaysMipmap=1

___________________________________________


Try to en-/disable 'UseZTrick' and see if it fixes your problem.
Could also be a problem of multi-texturing, just test the settings provided and if neccessary change them at will

Further more you could increase your framerate by lowering the logarithmic texture sizes (2^11=2048, 2^8=256 etc.)

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Btw, it would be very usefull if you'd provide your system details.

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Cheers,
Maggi
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Working Rig:
Asus P2B-DS @ 103MHz FSB
Double Pentium III-450 @ 464 MHz
4 x 128MB CAS2 SDRAM
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB DualHead
Eye-Q 777 (22" with 127kHz) on primary VGA
Nokia 445Xi (21") on secondary VGA


Home Rig:
Asus P2B-S Bios 1010 @ 100MHz FSB
Celeron 333A @ 500MHz
2 x 128MB CAS2 SDRAM
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB DualHead @ 150/200MHz
CTX VL710T (17")
and a brand new Pioneer 303S SCSI-DVD

[Maggi]

forgot to mention:

those entries for the OpenGLDrv.ini are identical in UT & Unreal, hence they can be used for both games ...

[TDI]

Wow, someone who might help me out !!!
Cool.
Ok, here my specs:

Main-home PC:

Asus P2B 1010
P-III 450MHz
160 MB Ram
SBLIVE! Value LW 3.0
G400 DH 5.41 & TurboGL drivers
Lan-adapter
Pioneer 103S DVD
Mitsumi 4/2/8 CD-Recorder
1x 3GB Quantum Fireball
1x 5GB Quantum Fireball

with Win98 SE US (DX7)

and the usual blabla.

I´ve put the mentioned entries inside of the *.ini, but I had no option to select the TurboGL anywhere.
The only thing I could do was to select "all devices" / "OpenGL" in the "usual" setup program.

In the advanced options (system console / preferences...) I didn´t find a Matrox OpenGL entry either.

How did you enable TurboGL ???
Did you replace the OpenGLDRV.dll ?
Did you copy the opengl32.dll (turbogl) in the System-directory from UT ???

I´m really curious about this, so more details would be VERY nice!!!
HOW did you get it up runnin´ ?
What are your framerates ?
blabla

Hope to hear soon from you!

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Salut,...
TDI

[Kruzin]

Thread relocated to the Matrox Gaming forum...

[Stringy]

Well just Check the Box in PowerDesk Labeled 32Bit Z .... That should make all calculations done with a 32bit Z no matter what the game calls for... (atleast I can do this with a G200, pretty sure you have the same option though)


Craig

[Maggi]

No need Andrei ...

If the TGL Manager doesn't detect your installation of Unreal/UT do the following:

Choose any of the installed OpenGL32.dll, right-click it and have a look into the version tab ...

If it's the TurboGL, copy it to your Unreal/System or UT/System folder.



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In the adv. options, you'll find an entry for OpenGL rendering at the bottom of the list ...
That's were you can configure the game's OpenGL.
The card is configged by the OpenGLDrv.ini with the entries I gave above.

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Don't forget that the so called OpenGL implementation of Unreal and UT is far away from being optimized. It's more like a basic support and needs a complete makeover before it gets playable.
In my eyes it is only a teaser on what to expect ... it looks so much better than D3D.


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Cheers,
Maggi
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Working Rig:
Asus P2B-DS @ 103MHz FSB
Double Pentium III-450 @ 464 MHz
4 x 128MB CAS2 SDRAM
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB DualHead
Eye-Q 777 (22" with 127kHz) on primary VGA
Nokia 445Xi (21") on secondary VGA


Home Rig:
Asus P2B-S Bios 1010 @ 100MHz FSB
Celeron 333A @ 500MHz
2 x 128MB CAS2 SDRAM
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB DualHead @ 150/200MHz
CTX VL710T (17")
and a brand new Pioneer 303S SCSI-DVD

[jediphoenix]

I tried the turbogl with UT and it was cacheing for 5 mins haha im not lying then when i went into the game everthing was almost black and all the models of players were totally grey with no features like blob people hahaha ! guess opengl stinks in UT anyway.

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