Messages posted by: cplmac

Hey everyone, all is well. Glad to see so many of you are still around! Maybe one of these days I'll reinstall the game and give it another go.

Hello...
Been a while thought I would stick my head in and say hi to some old familiar faces. Hope all is well!

I've got it running at pretty low settings and it still looks pretty darn good.

I've been on the server on and off quite a bit the last week, and so far I have not happened across any issues with hanging up or lag. If I do I'll note the time and drop you a line Dru. I have noticed in other UT3 servers some VERY questionable play and scores and have seen players exploit some bugs. Hopefully Epic will start rolling out some patches.

Thanks bush, I'll check that out.

http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1161

Steelace and I both use this fan. It is fantastic, he is running his e6600 core 2 duo at 3.38ghz stable with this fan. I on the other hand need a new mobo to clock over 2.4 with mine, stay away from Gigabyte 965 mobo's.

Okay folks, here is the definitive answer. The UT3 shortcut on your desktop is where you will make the change. Right click on the shortcut and left click on properties, the address should read:

"C:\Program Files\Unreal Tournament 3\Binaries\UT3.exe"

You are going to edit it to read as follows:

"C:\Program Files\Unreal Tournament 3\Binaries\UT3.exe" - nomoviestartup

This will eliminate the startup movies entirely, you will just have the game launch picture and go right to the press any key scene, which does take a few seconds. Also, this disables the single player campaign movies so undo it if you are going to play the campaign.

You can get BFGTech 8800GToc for 280 at Fry's, their online store is outpostdotcom I think.

CPU Intel 6600 core 2 duo @2.4ghz
Mobo Gigabyte 965
Video BFG Tech 7950oc
RAM 2x1024 OCZ gold 5400 dual channel

I found an ini that seemed to be the right one but there was no true/false, instead there was a header near the bottom of the UTEngine.ini that listed all the movie sequences. The first 7 I just changed the name to skippable movie and now I can left click through each of the videos on startup. I'll post a more detailed description if anyone needs it. I'm kind of surprised at the lack of participation in the DC UT3 server so far. I'm wondering if this is more an indicator of how many people don't have the game yet, the system to run the game, or a general discontent with the game. I've been playing it a lot lately and after the first couple of days and once the controls are configured, it really is a lot of fun.

I have been looking around for a way to disable the half dozen or so commercials you are forced to watch on game launch, and so far the only thing I have been able to find is the UT3 Tweaker. However, the UT3 Tweaker also allows you to do some shady borderline cheating things such as center your fire and eliminate the blur screen when you are hit. So I have not installed the program. I went to the UT3 boards in hopes of finding an answer only to find that almost 2 days later I still am not allowed to post there. Anyone have any ideas how to disable the startup videos?

(pyro)cplmac
I haven't pitched in for DC tags in quite some time so I figured I better not assume to much. I'm back on UT now so I will be seeing folks on the DC server often.

I heard today that the new nVidia unified driver is screwing things up. If you have the latest driver you might want to try rolling it back.

Just saw Eastern Promises. The movie was incomplete. Not sure how they released it this way, but it lacks an ending.

I found the server, but it is in perpetual connecting screen status.