New beta D3D and OpenGL renderers for UT.

[Joel]

New beta D3D and OpenGL renderers January 19, 2001 - by Daniel Vogel

This is a zip with beta versions of both a new D3D and OpenGL renderer. The new D3D renderer uses DirectX8 which should result in improved performance due to improved texture management. It also now supports the DXT1 compressed textures from the 2nd UT CD. The OpenGL renderer is now up- to date with the D3D renderer and needs some settings added to the OpenGLDrv setting of your UnrealTournament.ini file.

[OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice]

RefreshRate=60
UseTrilinear=False
UseS3TC=True
UseTNT=False
LODBias=0
UseMultiTexture=True
UsePalette=True
UseAlphaPalette=False

unreal.epicgames.com/

Joel

[Brian R.]

Thanks Joel

[Joel]

Just tried them and they are both a no go for me.

The new D3D renderer I notice is 140KB where the older one was 212KB. When using the new renderer it fails out and the game runs in a window in software mode.

With the OpenGL renderer you loss all textures. All I see are shades of grey blocks with a few colored blocks every now and then.

Joel

[Topha]

same here, windowes and pretty darn slow

[InFluX]

apparently it works if you turn off pre caching (for d3d at least)

[Joel]

Didn't make any difference here.

Joel

[Borg]

is this for UNTREAL or UT???? I was on that site & it was UNREAL not UT, can it be good for UT to ???

thanks

[henk]

doesn't work here either

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[Borg]

yes, it works FINE but on my CreativeLabs Gforce2MX 32ddr with OPENGL, I even get a performance boost when I use this new OPENGL.drv .Before I use Loki OPENGL.drv wich gives the S3TC support for Gf2 & RADEON cards in UT & in 1024x768x32 with 12 bots in CTF-LAVA GIANT I get AVRAGE FPS from 55-61 Lowest around 25 ,HIGHEST around 105 now with this new OPENGL.drv I got AVRAGE FPS Around 60-68 lowest 35 & highest unbeliveble 125 FPS..this is a real BOOST but not with inclided *.inf update then the performance are just bed, arround 50 fps I change it to this :

UseS3TC=1
UseTNT=0
MinDepthBits=16
MaxLogUOverV=8
MaxLogVOverU=8
UseMultiTexture=1
UsePalette=1
UseAlphaPalette=0
ShareLists=0
AlwaysMipmap=1
DoPrecache=0
Translucency=True
VolumetricLighting=True
ShinySurfaces=True
Coronas=True
HighDetailActors=True
DetailTextures=True
UseTrilinear=False
MaxAnisotropy=0
SupportsLazyTextures=0

& the performance icrased highly under OPENGL

AS for D3D..well it crashed few time, it has some problem with PRECHASHING , so I desabled that in UT.inf & I was able to run the game but with wery,wery,bed performanc about 28 FPS for avrage ,lowest 18fps highest 35fps..but with TEXTURE COMPRESSION enabled I cen see the diference betwen original D3D.dll & this new ONE, actualy it looks same sa OPENGL with S3TC support but with LAGY performance..

here a link if you want see how S3TC looks on Gf2 cards : http://www.guru3d.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000551.html

I made this shots with LokiOPENGL.drv @ that time..1024x768x32, CTF-FACE RED BASE icon & CTF CORET..

[Joel]

I sent a bug report to Epic about this at

utbugs436@epicgames.com

Joel

[DosFreak]

I used the LOKI .INI settings with the new ogl .dll. Performance was the same as LOKI and I noticed no difference, The new DX8 driver was terrible. This was on my Geforce 2 GTS 64m Directx 8 Windows 2000 6.62 Drivers.

On my G400 the ogl .dll had the white textures. Same with Loki. Wetn back to 4.36 OGL and all was well. New D3D .dll made UT appear in a Window.