UT on Windows 2000

[old.MadOne2000]

Unreal on Windows 2000

Orrite group,

I'm a newbie here so go easy!!

I would like to know if anyone has or knows of anyone who has UT running on a Win2k platform.

I have tried alsorts, but with no avail!

So if any of you UT heads can help, pleeze get intouch

Cheers

MadOne2k

 

[old.[G]TRIXXX]

`yep i have tried and it worked just fine as long as you've got all the good drivers for your hardware
for instance when i got win 2k for the first time i couldn't run UT cause my vid card drivers weren't optimized for win 2k , i could run other games but not UT
but the framerate usually doesn't go up when u use win2k
So it is possible but win 98 is just better as a platform to play games on.(not saying that win2k isn't but this is my experience)
well gl t00 y00

 

[luap]

I'm using Win2k atm with Voodoo 5 5500 and it r0x0rs. What's the spec of your machine and what version of drivers are you using for the vid and sound?

 

[Testin da Cable]

i had ut running fine [428 patch] on w2k. all drivers specially dl'd, even if w2k had it's own built in. i had dl'd and installed servicepack1 and directx8 too.

the pc was a bp6/2x cellery 433 with 384 megs ram. graphics driven by a gforce ddr pro with latest nvidia detonator w2k drivers.

i did have probs with halflife until i patched as far as it would go.
also afaik the 'need for speed' series will not run [but that's hear-say ]

-tdc

 

[Wazzerphuk]

To run UT decently on win2k you need at least 192megs of RAM, with preference laying in 256megs. If you have this much RAM, a little tweaking here and there (along with a suitable spec machine) and UT should work great.

 

[old.MadOne2000]

hi it mee agian,

my machine spec is celeron 300 256RAM voodoo 1

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Try turning your graphical details settings right down, as a Cely 300 and v1 can't handle much.

 

[Testin da Cable]

true.
either tune down or i'm afraid you'll have to upgrade.

i can remember when i had a v1. gosh i really loved that board

 

[Guest]

yeah, first time i saw QW Spill the Blood on a V1

 

[Mr_Horus]

Ahh. Those were the days of the Voodoo 1. I had the Orchid Rightous, the best V1 board that was ever made

 

[Testin da Cable]

i had a matrox mystique and a 'generic' v1 on a p166 with 32 megs. i oc'd the card to 58Mhz and played quake

 

[HangTime]

the problem may be that there are no win2k voodoo1 drivers available from 3dfx. the latest drivers afaik are dx6 q3 compatible drivers released around may '99 for win9x. i did run UT under win98se with a voodoo1 for a brief while and performance was good in 512x384 with everything turned down under glide.

anyway i think the crux of the problem may be that the voodoo1 doesnt have proper glide/d3d/ogl drivers under win2k, either natively or via download. my advice would be to change to WindMill or buy a new gfx card, a v5-5500 should run UT very nice, or a cheap voodoo3 if your on a budjet