UT and new patch upgrade

[Elie]

Hi Guys,

Everytime I upgrade UT with the latest patch, it runs very choppy in DX7.0. so I then reload UT from scratch and all is fine again with my Marvel G400 running 5.52.015.

Thanks in advance,
Elie

[Thundrchez]

Yup. The d3ddrv.dll "upgrade" in the newest patch (413) to UT has a MAJOR performance penalty on many video cards, including the G400 and GeForce256.

Check out this thread http://forums.murc.ws/ubb/Forum4/HTML/003326.html and preserve a copy of the UnrealTournament\System\d3ddrv.dll that comes with the 405B patch level of UT.

[blackxr]

You could also try using the 0.8 beta dll and enabling the settings that I mention in the thread that is posted above.