UT patch 4.28

[Sisyfos]

http://216.162.101.40/official/utpatch428.php3

[Johnny Ray]

Thx for the heads-up sisyfos. Have you tried it? Even with the beta d3d.ddl, UT 4.25 is virtually unplayable on my system (<20 fps).

John

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PIII750 =&gt; 840 MHz
Asus P3B-F (BIOS 1.06)
G400MAX(PowerDesk 6.01 beta)
Win98
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Adaptec AHA-2940U2W(BIOS 2.57)
Quantum 9/1 GB Atlas 10K
Plextor UtraPlex Wide Plexwriter 8/20 CDR
the last ISA modem

[Greebe]

JR, the d3d.dll dated Aug 5 was posted was to fix the problems with patch 4.25. I installed and it fixed most of the problems (especially the Zbuffer issues)

[Johnny Ray]

Thx Greebe, that is the one I was referring to as beta d3d.dll. I'm not sure what I've done. For some reason 4.25/4.28 with the Aug 5 d3d.dll is really bad. Prior to this is was great.


John

[Thundrchez]

I downloaded and installed the 4.28 patch, and it is doing really good for me. I'm using the PD 6.00 beta drivers, 1024x768x32 with 32 bit Z buffer, and it is movin' right along and looking real good.

This is the first good patch in a while that did not require a d3ddrv.dll beta.

[Alec]

In my opinion, that latest beta is included in this patch, maybe in a revised version.

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[Matt Houben]

I installed patch 428 2 days ago and it runs properly with my Millennium G200 card. No performance reduction as with v425.

[Oracle]

i dunno it seems so much slower ever since the patches went above 405b (d3d) 413 was ok 420 was getting slow and now 428 it takes over 30 for the game to switch from the demo intro thing to the main screen ..... ouch it really annoys me that n e how

laterz oracle

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[Brian R.]

Oracle - I use 405B since I think it works the best on my computer (fastest). So far, every upgrade I do makes it slower.

[Beezer]

Hey Oracle, you should get rid of the "intro thing".

In UnrealTournament.ini you should replace the value for "Local Map = " so that it looks like this:

[URL]
LocalMap=UT-LOGO-Map.unr

Then just press the [Esc] key when the logo appears.

[Beezer]

I just loaded the 4.28 patch today and jumped on the MGI server. I must say, it's working pretty good for me. I'm using the 6.10 PD beta drivers.

Frame rates seem a little better than before, all the Z-buffer flickering is gone, and online play is solid using my dialup modem. Actually, I was one of the few people on the server tonight (ALPBM aka Darth_Mahl was the other) that was using dial up, and I didn't notice that much of a disadvantage. I even won a couple of "Hammer Matches" against LPB's on Ghostman's server. That has never happen for me before, so I'm pretty happy with the new update.

[Tronic]

Doesn't work for me.

After updating, first start of UT -> HALT.

- after many tries -

With software rendering it works quite well.

With D3D, small resolution and 16bits it looks really ugly, but works - for a while. Didn't even finish that starting demo, halted at the "you have been selected.." part or somewhere near it.

Music continues even after halt (no, it doesn't loop in soundcard's buffer), but only thing I can do is Ctrl-Alt-Del -> "Exception 0E" or "System is busy waiting for..".

With 32bit colors menus are REALLY slow, like 2 minutes to switch to 32 bit mode and 30 secs to open any dialog.

I've had these menu-problems with 420 too, just after updating to it, but it disappeared quite soon.

Hopefully there will be menusystem made with QUICK BASIC, running in DOS TEXTMODE, in their next game. Some people just can't make STABLE menusystem.

Anyway, any suggestions on how to fix these problems?

-Athlon @somewhere around 800MHz at the moment, PERFECTLY stable even at 900MHz.
-Asus K7M
-256MB
-G400 DH 32MB with Pdesk "6.11.031"
-Windown'98
-Swap is 200-500MB (limited to, should be enough?)


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[Rocket_Bait]

Beezer
Good tip on the intro. Cut the cycle time by ~20% between intro and game screen.

thx

Rocket_Bait