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Lets start with the easy stuff (cause thats all I know).

Make sure his vid card has the latest drivers.

Uninstall UT and reinstall it fresh.

I was running UT off of a generic 8meg vid card before I got my Voodoo. I only got 10 frames per second, but it didn't crash. His Rage should be able to run UT without crashing IMciO (In My completely ignorant Opinion).

I've got an ATI Rage Pro in my computer here at work. Don't bother trying to run it in any mode other than 512x384 in software. It's horrible.

Yes, any voodoo will be better.

As for not functioning - wierd. I'd suggest the cd-crack to help the start up problem.

I got an ATI Rage 128 and it runs okay on my P3-500. I get framerates around 25-50 on 800x600.

I guesss it is more a memory problem. 64 RAM is really below what I would call 'playable'.

Cleaner has a point, but there is an exception to every rule.

Ruffriders comp has (or had) only 64 rams, and he somehow manages to kick lots of booty.

64 ram definitely is a major holdback for running UT, but I still think you should be able to run it, without crashing all the time. I just wouldn't expect to have any sort of decent performance.

Indeed, I'd be willing to bet money that it's the 64 megs of ram. One of my friends, oddly enough, used to have 64 megs with a voodoo 3 3000 and 400mhz, and the game ran horribly, we rarely even got it to start, and online play was out of the question. But just a few weeks ago he had his cpu upgraded to 128 megs and the game runs absolutely fine with no hitches at all. Your friend should upgrade to 128 megs and see what happens, if it doesn't work, oh well, the extra 64 megs can't hurt, and would most likely be needed down the line anyway.

Boom, its a PII 300 @ 350 with 64MB and only a single V2 card now. Id say the processor is killing me more than the ram.