ut2004 open gl...

[Doolop]

anyone out there know hot to render uto4 in open gl, cause i know you can

[Blackhearted]

Ill give ya a warning before i show ya..if youve got an ati card youre better off in D3D..but anyway.

go to your ut2004\system folder and open up the UT2004.ini file with notepad and do this...

look for this area:

[Engine.Engine]

RenderDevice=D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice

;RenderDevice=D3D9Drv.D3D9RenderDevice

;RenderDevice=Engine.NullRenderDevice

;RenderDevice=OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice

and change it to:

[Engine.Engine]

;RenderDevice=D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice

;RenderDevice=D3D9Drv.D3D9RenderDevice

;RenderDevice=Engine.NullRenderDevice

RenderDevice=OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice

and youre in opengl.

[Keldyn]

I'm curious as to why you would want to run in OpenGL mode.

[Blindlabel013]

I just tried it, I was getting really high FPS but UT2004 keeps crashing.

[nekrosoft13]

also

why won't epic let you change this option inside of the game

there is a setting there, but it only lets to select directx

[kitteny_berk]

it's odd, i actually get better performance in OGL (9700pro) the quality is a little lower, but it's not like you're standing still much.

[trashpickinman]

  BlindLabel013 said:

I just tried it, I was getting really high FPS but UT2004 keeps crashing.

just tried it too, was driving a vehicle and it seemed like the camera went behind a hill and it locked up.

[TwiztedCam]

I also tried it and being as desperate as I am (playing with a PCI 9200se), I was hoping for a jump in FPS since I'm using the new Omega drivers with the optimized OpenGL driver, and well, it did manage to increase my FPS.

[Blackhearted]

well thats weird...ive seen people complain about bad performance opengl wise in ut2k4 with ati cards before..maybe ati improved opengl in the newer drivers. i dunno

[Chouzan]

  nekrosoft13 said:

also

why won't epic let you change this option inside of the game

there is a setting there, but it only lets to select directx

The OpenGL renderer is experimental and not directly supported by Epic, Unreal Tournament 2004 was developed with DirectX in mind.

[nekrosoft13]

then when you select opengl, there could be a warning messege.

also directx9 rendered could be implemented

[Blackhearted]

  nekrosoft13 said:

then when you select opengl, there could be a warning messege.

also directx9 rendered could be implemented

they did have a d3d9drv.dll with the 3204 patch. if you installed that before 3236 youll still have it but if you didnt you wont becuase they took it out of the 3236 one. if there was much difference between the regular d3d and the d3d9 driver i dont know.

[Chouzan]

They did provide an early DirectX 9 renderer in the 3204 patch, although it proved to offer littles gain in performance since the game was originally written based on the standards of DirectX 8.

[Doolop]

no, ther is NO OPEN GL selection!! its weird...

[Doolop]

its because my card screws it up in d3d

[Doolop]

wow, a pci 9200 running ut04, thats cool...

[Blackhearted]

  Doolop said:

no, ther is NO OPEN GL selection!! its weird...

are you talking about in game or in the .ini file? becuase if youre referring to ingame there wont be a selection for it there.

[TwiztedCam]

  Doolop said:

wow, a pci 9200 running ut04, thats cool...

You forgot the important part, it's also a SE.

[Blindlabel013]

Yeah, TwiztedCam is my bitch. I don't pay him much.

[cykl]

Opengl rocks. I wonder why almost every game now uses d3d when opengl increases considerably the performance. I play for example Q3 arena perfectly with an s3 pci 32mb card. And a few years back games used to have in game selection for opengl and d3d?I wonder why that has changed?Maybe to make people buy video cards every year or what:blink:ink:

[rajputwarrior]

the game was written in D3D, but they but open GL in there for Linux and Mac. Some may see some performance imporvements, more then likely the nvidia users, but they dont recommend you doing this if you can use D3D, but if you are running linux or mac, its all you can do.

[cykl]

I recently acquired an msi geforce fx 5900 ultra 256mb video card so I could to play unreal 2003 (runs on d3d needless to say) in full drive (I love the game and I must play it fully), but despite the power of the card what I got was a normal 79.4 fps (going down on more detailed and pushy parts of the game) in a resolution of 1280*1024. Ok that?s playable, however with the same card on Q3 ? high quality (open gl) I got a sta311.2 fps in 1280*1024. So what you say about that?

[S7R1K3R]

ur sayin a 9200 is bad i jus recently upgraded from a geforce 2 mx which ran cs an ut2k4 jus fine wit no problems whatsoever jus had to oc a bit an lower the res to 800x600 but other than that i thought it was a great card better then the fx5200

[rajputwarrior]

  S7R1K3R said:

ur sayin a 9200 is bad i jus recently upgraded from a geforce 2 mx which ran cs an ut2k4 jus fine wit no problems whatsoever jus had to oc a bit an lower the res to 800x600 but other than that i thought it was a great card better then the fx5200

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its all u need to run unreal tournament, because the 9200 is a DX8 card, and the 5200 is a DX9 card, while UT2k4 is a DX8 game