UT3 - odd problem

CSMonkeh · 5 May 2011 at 20:21

Just re-installed UT3 to take advantage of my nice shiny upgrades (see sig); installed fine and patched up but every time I click on the icon I get a message that its stopped working and this in the text box:

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: UT3.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 49cb0f31
Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.17514
Fault Module Timestamp: 4ce7ba58
Exception Code: c00000fd
Exception Offset: 0002e8d3
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Information 1: e8ad
Additional Information 2: e8adce1c2b9e7be834b4063ac3c53863
Additional Information 3: e8ad
Additional Information 4: e8adce1c2b9e7be834b4063ac3c53863

Any thoughts?

Utnac · 5 May 2011 at 20:29

Maybe link it to steam and install through that?

Kosmiche · 5 May 2011 at 20:30

Lets get the basics sorted,

Is your operating system up to date?
Have you restarted the pc?

CSMonkeh · 5 May 2011 at 21:10

Utnac said:
Maybe link it to steam and install through that?

Done that - still no dice

Lets get the basics sorted,

Is your operating system up to date?
Have you restarted the pc?

Yup that as well. Think it might be the 6950 card i have. Even Steam was bewildered by it when I fired L4D2. And yes it is running latest drivers.

Kanpai · 5 May 2011 at 21:44

Try running the game in compat mode (Vista SP2)

CSMonkeh · 5 May 2011 at 21:51

nayan89 said:
Try running the game in compat mode (Vista SP2)

Running windows 7 x64 sp1...
Should note it didn't work either pre-SP1 install but sure it did work under Win7 with my old 4850.

Utnac · 5 May 2011 at 22:04

I'm assuming you have done the obvious basics of checking their forums and support pages for the problem to see their suggested solutions?

CSMonkeh · 5 May 2011 at 22:27

Utnac said:
I'm assuming you have done the obvious basics of checking their forums and support pages for the problem to see their suggested solutions?

Ye checked the forums and couldn't see anything. CHecking again just to be sure....

cosmos55 · 6 May 2011 at 14:36

A shot in the dark

"If the ntdll.dll error only displays when you use a specific software program, uninstall the program, reboot your computer, and then install the latest version again from scratch.

Note:If the software program has any updates or service packs available, install them too. The software's programmers may have identified an issue with the program that caused the ntdll.dll error and then issued a patch for it.

Ntdll.dll errors could occur if you have an Iomega Zip drive on the same IDE cable as the hard drive inside your computer. If so, move the Zip drive to a dedicated IDE controller."

Kosmiche · 6 May 2011 at 15:25

Another shot in the dark

Uninstall physx, then install ut3 again and let the ut3 installer install physx.

Worth a try

Devil_Spawn · 6 May 2011 at 17:31

verified the game files through steam?

QlimaxUK · 6 May 2011 at 18:36

UT3 is a bit low spec now play a better game

ChaosdaJoker · 6 May 2011 at 18:52

QlimaxUK said:
UT3 is a bit low spec now play a better game

But in its day it was eye candy, shame they made that game and then ported it to the PC, completely ruined what should have been an Epic game.

QlimaxUK · 6 May 2011 at 19:33

yesss i still have UT3 installed on steam but never play it now, i was a big fan of the old ut99 back its better days when we just called it UT!

Kosmiche · 6 May 2011 at 20:54

UT3 only performs as well as it does because theres no ingame anti aliasing.

If you force aa then its still pretty stressful on your pc.

CSMonkeh · 6 May 2011 at 23:00

QlimaxUK said:
UT3 is a bit low spec now play a better game

lol!! Only really play L4D2 or Civ5 on PC, Call of Duty and Black Ops are on PS3 so was gonna ramp up the options (such as AA) and see whats what.

Pity really, roll on Battlefield 3!!

QlimaxUK · 7 May 2011 at 13:10

thats the only problem with a new pc is you can play the latest games but its not long before your going back to older games which always seem better to play

Final8y · 7 May 2011 at 15:10

Eames said:
UT3 only performs as well as it does because theres no ingame anti aliasing.

If you force aa then its still pretty stressful on your pc.

I play at 2560x1600 Edge Detect 24xAA + Super-sample & the gfx don't look dated to me & still looks better than allot of today's games in my opinion.

CSMonkeh · 7 May 2011 at 23:00

QlimaxUK said:
thats the only problem with a new pc is you can play the latest games but its not long before your going back to older games which always seem better to play

Well tbh UT3 IS my newest game; allow me to explain.
L4D2 is based on the HL2 engine which was out some years ago and Civ5 ain't gonna push any graphics card hard.
I believe they still use the UT3 engine (Mass Effect series?) so thought i'd see what I can get out of it.
Update on the original situation: Windows simply says its incompatible and trying to run in XP mode does nothing either. Maybe just wasn't meant for X64 OS?

Wispy · 7 May 2011 at 23:14

CSMonkeh said:
Maybe just wasn't meant for X64 OS?

I've been running it on 64bit for ages now, no problems with it.
Have you tried deleting your old profile in My Games? I've heard that has worked with this error. Either that or you could try a fresh OS install, incase something got screwed up along the way.