How come no one plays UT3?

Bengaboy · 31 Jan 2009 at 22:46

Played it for the 1st time ever, and I thought it was pretty good!

Fast, frantic action.

I whacked it on steam and started playing, but the servers arnt very populated - which I knew about, but will you in time be able to see other friends in ya friends list playing it / search for servers in steam?

smogsy · 31 Jan 2009 at 22:55

no nvidia people can play it 180.xx + = ut3 crashes

Bengaboy · 31 Jan 2009 at 22:57

Im playing it though....

smogsy · 31 Jan 2009 at 23:07

well theres a massive Topic about 180.xx nvidia drivers causing crashes on UT3 on Nvidias Forum + anandtech i think its 8800 Series + plus though.

mine dont even load up
it comes up with splash art then click on it never responds.

Phatjayunoi · 31 Jan 2009 at 23:47

Does the 180.xx include 181.XX

?

Cause I'm quite curious about that, don't want to end up finally getting the game and find that it does not want to work.

smogsy · 1 Feb 2009 at 00:29

anything 180.+

178.24 work though

i cant play it

need to 180.xx for 280gtx and need 180.20 for X58 sli lol

snowdog · 1 Feb 2009 at 00:47

Dudes, there's a workaround for the crashes on nvidia cards:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13397469&postcount=30

Playing it absolutely fine now on my 180.84 drivers.

smogsy · 1 Feb 2009 at 00:48

if that fixed my issue i would do it but i can not even get in the game!!!!!!!!!!

snowdog · 1 Feb 2009 at 00:50

Never heard about your problem tbh, freezeing on splash, I don't know sorry. I used to get crashes regularly and setting the screen percentage at 98 fixed it for me.

PinkFloyd · 1 Feb 2009 at 00:52

smogsy - reinstall the game. I was having the same problem at one point. It is mostly likely a ini file that has messed up - a reinstall should sort it

smogsy · 1 Feb 2009 at 00:53

pink i tried that twice,! will try once more because its my fav game!

decto · 1 Feb 2009 at 01:04

I picked up the unreal bundle at new year but haven't played it. Just started the steam download a few mins ago so will see what it's like. The new update got my attention...

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PinkFloyd · 1 Feb 2009 at 01:16

smogsy said:
pink i tried that twice,! will try once more because its my fav game!

Oh that really sucks :s

Clean windows reinstall! That will definitely work! Worth it for a fave game

Cybermyk · 1 Feb 2009 at 01:42

Just a thought Smogsy, try creating a new account on your computer. Log in using that (with admin priveledges) and try starting the game again.

feedtheram · 1 Feb 2009 at 02:03

underated game. had lots of fun playing this and will probably get back into it.

JimAroo · 1 Feb 2009 at 02:36

I really do hope the upcoming patch and steam integration will help this take off.

smogsy · 1 Feb 2009 at 09:10

still dont freaking work

i still think its the 180.xx that are causing it.

EDIT: found the problem. i tried -nosound for a laugh and it works so got find update for audio driver if not ill just ise my usb soundcard for this game xD

Garyj881 · 1 Feb 2009 at 11:02

Might install this later

decto · 1 Feb 2009 at 11:08

Works perfect for me

n750i, 280GTX, X-Fi Titanium

Vista 32 Drivers 181.22

Definately need practice ... lost 5-3 to a bot on normal.

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Final8y · 1 Feb 2009 at 11:18

Disabling OpenGL Hardware Audio in the menu may help some people with crashing atm.