UII shots

I fully agree with Entropy. The textures especially have put me off the game, somewhat.

Kai (3DCenter.de moderator) did a nice, short, bile-spewing article on the texturing and performance issues with Unreal2 (here, German--but images explain a lot, I guess). The worst bit:

"Atlantis" in U2, no actors: 25fps
"Atlantis" in UT2003: 72fps . . .

ta,
-Sascha.rb

 

I'm really disappoinnted with U2.

 

True, but I do have to agree that the texture work is pretty lackluster. Most notably, the side of the CAR looks pretty ugly, even with 16x AF.

 

Hi T2K,

You might have missed the point. The "Atlantis" comparison uses the exact same level geometry and textures on both UT2003 and U2. Actors have been removed, so AI and skeletal animation shouldn't be an issue. In the particular scene used for the fps comparison, you also won't see many particle effects, so you can discount them as well (even though, apart from different gamma values, the scene looks identical).

Something seems to have gone wrong with the portal system in U2. Or, Legend's addition to the Unreal Engine made it necessary to adapt the renderer, too, in such a way it loses out a lot against UT2003's renderer.

ta,
-Sascha.rb

 

Yeah, it sounds like there is something horribly wrong going on. The two screenshots look identical (The Unreal II seems to have slightly better texture quality on the floor, but it could just be different lighting) but UT2k3 has 3x the framerate.

 

There are some early indications that the Unreal 2 .ini file in the system folder is screwy/sub optimal. Sound seems fixable too with updated OpenAL drivers just like UT2003.

For example, why is CacheSizeMegs set to only 8 by default?

 

I kept experiencing constant CTDs until I disabled the usedefaultdriver line for sound in the .ini.

 

Thank you JR! I'll file that info away, you know I usually try to jump in at other forums when people ask for help with Unreal engined games. I currently am using onboard sound from my Asus P4PE mobo (SoundMAX). It's working well albeit I'm only using software mode.

I assume you have a Creative card, are you using the Audigy 2 drivers? They worked really well with my Audigy 1 in UT2003 on my last rig, especially with headphones and after I used the new Audigy 2 utility that optomizes the experience of using them (the name escapes me). But I only used the card for gaming and mileage may vary. The install was tricky.

 

Thank you too JohnReynolds.

I had regular CTD using EAX on an nforce2 that are now gone.