Guest ceekay Posted February 6, 2006 Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 hi there, since i got my laptop (ASUS A6Vc with 6200 GO), i cannot run unreal tournament (the old version from 1999) any longer in Direct3d or OpenGL mode. Both modes make ut run extremely slow, until at a random point, it goes extremely quick for a second, to continue with the slowmotion right afterwards. Only software rendering mode works fine, but the graphics obviously are really bad with that mode.. The fact that software rendering works fine, indicates to me that its a graphic card problem, and not a problem with speedstep-type technology for the Intel Centrino... Hope you guys can :) me... ceekay. Using GeForce 6200 GO - ASUS Driver 83.20 / Centrino 1.7ghz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted February 6, 2006 Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 Try deleting the UnrealTournament.INI in the game's system folder. (resets settings) Next make sure your CPU cannot decrease its speed, run it at max performance. I would also recommend that you try the 81.98 driver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ceekay Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 thanks for your reaction.. unfortunately, option 1, didnt work.. i've tried reinstalling the whole game also, and a new version of the game. so its not due to the game... number 2, im willing to try, but im not sure how to do this?! (using a centrino notebook) Number 3, i have this prob since 6 months or something so i've been trough all the default asus drivers and some of lv2go, none of them fixed the problem. need more :) ceekay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 There should be an option in your BIOS to run the CPU at max performance, and in your windows power properties set it to home/office desk. Someone with that laptop might know, I have very little experience with centrino, and it would differ between laptops. It would seem the game (which came out long before modern laptop CPUs and centrino were invented) starts to run at your CPU's full speed, then your CPU probably goes back down to a lower speed, which causes the game to slow. There have been quite a few threads on this, but with different games. Edit: This is odd, I can't find any of the topics I'm referring too. :) Edit 2: I did find the threads but they were of no help, exept for the guy who turned cool and quite off on his AMD, but you don't have that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ceekay Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 ok, will look in bios in a little bit. But, although i believe you, can you explain why you think its due to the processor and not the graphic card?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 ok bios didnt have the option, but i used mobmeter to monitor the clock and its kept steady at 1.73 when i disabled the powertool... so clock is fine.. but problem still exists. i found something else: if i play it maximised (full screen) it's in slowmotion, but when i play in a window its quite normal (maybe a bit fast at sometimes, but very playable to say the least...) but obviously i want to play full screen, so... hope this helps a bit and thanks for your replies so far Bill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ceekay Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 did some browsing again.. could it be that powermizer is changing the frequency of my GPU constantly, resulting in slow/fast drawback of video?! seems like quite a logical explaination to me, as while using software rendering (and thus no powermizer), i dont get the problems at all... is there a way to turn powermizer off OR is there a way to measure the actual realtime frequency a gpu clock is running at?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 ive found rivatuner, which can monitor gpu frequencies, and reading the measurements whilst playing ut just tells me that everything's steady, (constant 300/600) :S so i guess i need some pro input again to help me with some possible options why this game keeps failing on me :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest inferno Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 turn aa and af on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbo-Xan Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 turn aa and af on I have this problem too.... Only ocurs with UT99... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 They call it UT99 for a reason, it is getting quite old now, but still runs good on most new computer setups and OSes, so its not that bad. On the bright side you are getting better graphics there. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbo-Xan Posted March 24, 2006 Report Share Posted March 24, 2006 They call it UT99 for a reason, it is getting quite old now, but still runs good on most new computer setups and OSes, so its not that bad.On the bright side you are getting better graphics there. :( I try new OGL Driver for UT99 :) game runs Slowly... I try New D3D8 game run slowly and sometimes very fast... Only playable with Software Rendering :) The problem occurs when Framerate over 150fps :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sn0wl Posted March 24, 2006 Report Share Posted March 24, 2006 The problem occurs when Framerate over 150fps Did you try turning Vertical Sync (V-Sync) on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted March 24, 2006 Report Share Posted March 24, 2006 Should have told us that earlier, that might be the solution to all the speed problems for this game. Turn it on in the game and in the nvidia control panel for a UT99 profile. (might have to make it yourself) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbo-Xan Posted March 28, 2006 Report Share Posted March 28, 2006 Should have told us that earlier, that might be the solution to all the speed problems for this game.Turn it on in the game and in the nvidia control panel for a UT99 profile. (might have to make it yourself) Bill I try everything.. Vsync ON AA ON AF ON MaxFrame 150 In all Video Rendering... Plz.. post your Unrealtournament.ini thks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 Here it is I suggest you change the res settings from 1600x1200 to whatever you run, I also removed the name section at the very bottem, seems to be the only me specific stuff there, has nicks and id number and that is it, can copy from your ini. [uBrowser.UBrowserIRCSystemPage] While the game still tests fine on this Quadro with 8x series drivers for me (I think), the ini still thinks I have a 440 go. lol I do think the last time I ran it I had all of the ingame graphics options set up as high as they will go, so you shouldn't have to worry about that. If it still doesn't work you might have to get a program to fool the game into thinking you have a different CPU or graphics card. Bills_UnrealTournament99_ini.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SAW Posted March 24, 2008 Report Share Posted March 24, 2008 Here it isI suggest you change the res settings from 1600x1200 to whatever you run, I also removed the name section at the very bottem, seems to be the only me specific stuff there, has nicks and id number and that is it, can copy from your ini. [uBrowser.UBrowserIRCSystemPage] While the game still tests fine on this Quadro with 8x series drivers for me (I think), the ini still thinks I have a 440 go. lol I do think the last time I ran it I had all of the ingame graphics options set up as high as they will go, so you shouldn't have to worry about that. If it still doesn't work you might have to get a program to fool the game into thinking you have a different CPU or graphics card. Unfortunately that did'nt solve the problem either. I also have the same sort of problem: game is running real fast when DirectDraw OFF and real Slow when DDraw is ON. The game suddenly runs 'too fast' when started up and stays that way. The next time its slomo-mode during the rest of the game. So i think the problem is not too much UT-related but maybe indeed something like PowerMizer. Iself got Notebook Hardware Control installed, which also 'intergrates' with PowerMizer although no positive effect @ UT'99 so far... My next step will be to install newer drivers...Looks like NVidia is the only manufacturer with/causes this problem. Might keep you updaten here :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted March 27, 2008 Report Share Posted March 27, 2008 Maybe you should buy the new one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karamba Posted May 27, 2008 Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 (edited) I have the same problem with Geforce 8400M GS. Tried everything I can on the UT99 settings and several new drivers and still the same problem with the slomo. We have the similar laptops in my office with the radeon x1400 (+- the perfromance of the 8440m gs) that run the game smoothly using directx on the maximum settings & resolution. Does anyone have an idea what can I do?? Edited May 27, 2008 by karamba Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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