UT (the first one) too bright and too slow

@TIF3AR · n00b Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 71

Hi everydody,
I've got some problems with my unreal tournament installation:
The game is much too bright, even when I put the brightness in the lower position. However, when I restart the game, the menu is very dark until I lunch a game.
The other problem is that the menu is very choppy when it searches for multiplayer games. The search is very slow, and so is the program. The lowest ping I could have is around 1000... :cry:

I'm running on the 2.6.5 kernel, with the 5**** nvidia drivers (the lastest, downloaded from the official site)
Can someone help me? :oops:

@TIF3AR · n00b Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 71

No ideas?

@TIF3AR · n00b Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 71

I've solved the brightness problem by replacing sdl rendering by opengl rendering, but I still cannot play online, please help! :cry:

@TIF3AR · n00b Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 71

Is this game working well with somebody??

MaxDamage · Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 9:15 pm Post subject:

Changing to OpenGL doesn't solve the brightness problem for me. Anyway few months ago when I installed UT I managed to solve it. Don't remember how

I cannot help you with the netplay problem, sorry. Be sure no other programs are using the conexion.
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@TIF3AR · n00b Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 71

@TIF3AR · n00b Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 71

Here's what I can see in the logs:

PovMan · Guru Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 375 Location: Australia

Game works perfectly for me.
About playing online, every time i do the search thing the game locks up, this might have something to do with the firewall or maybe not, i dunno.
To fix it, when i want to play online i do the following:
1. run the game from a terminal window, not the menu
2. Press alt-enter to make it run in a window
3. press ctrl-g to stop it from capturing the mouse
4. start the multiplayer search.
5. when the game locks up, i send a ctrl-c to the terminal and the game continues. this might happen a few times
6. press ctrl-g and alt-enter once i've connected to a server, and it's all good

give that a go, if it doesn't work then good luck finding a fix

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shift · Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 8:44 am Post subject:

Regarding the dark problem, the OpenGL drivers that shipped with UT had problems, for Windows they released an updated OpenGL driver shortly after with performance and gamma enhancements. I doubt that works on Linux since it's a .dll and why use it when there's a much better driver.

Try utglr

http://cwdohnal.home.mindspring.com/utglr/

There are x86 source codes at the bottom, you can try compiling it.
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@TIF3AR · n00b Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 71

Thanks for your answers,
As I said, when I changed the rendre method to OpenGL, the brightness problem disapeared, but I think that i'll try this enhanced OpenGL renderer :wink:

The problem changed for the internet games: the pings are now goods but I always find just 6 or 7 games, never more. It's kinda strange because I haven't changed anything

shift · Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 1:05 am Post subject:

There should be over 2400 servers...

Maybe UT for linux still uses the old masterservers?

MasterServerAddress=unreal.epicgames.com MasterServerPort=27900
MasterServerAddress=master0.gamespy.com MasterServerPort=27900
MasterServerAddress=master.mplayer.com MasterServerPort=27900

If it doesn't work, I think pressing F1 cycles through them...
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