!!!!BUG!!!!

[xSONICx]

was playing unwheel MSU decided hey what the hell lets put the graphics settings up to the max I put everything up and then put on antialiasing and anistropic filtering I'm like whoa sweeeeet pressed the nitrous button and all hell broke loose my screen size went smaller picture was in top left 1/4 of original size and on the bottom and right it was stretched out I have the latest UT2004 patch and the latest drivers

EDIT:I also noticed that I can pick my car only once in a match any way to display the menu again?

 

[Shrimp]

What graphics card and drivers are you using?

UT2004 automatically turns off anti aliasing when the blur is turned on, but it should be restored as soon as you release the turbo.

Yes, you can only select a vehicle once. That's the way it was supposed to have been from day 1, just a few bugs prevented that from working properly . If you spectate/rejoin you get to select another car though...

 

[Shambler[sixpack]]

There is only a minor bug I would like to mention, in my current setup UT2k4 needs to run in reduced texture details and I have everything but the Interface texture detail turned way down...Thus some of the images used on the menu's (such as map preview screenie's) are not using the right LODSet, they should be LODSET_Interface.
I noticed the same problem on some of the vehicles too, this makes the textures on some cars (and map previews) look fuzzy and some perfectly sharp because of my varied detail settings. (i.e. makes textures that should be high detail display as low detail and vice versa)

 

[XV-745]

I wasn't able to do the spectate/rejoin thing online to change my vehicle. When I rejoined it put me right back in the same car... kinda sucks if you accidentally pick the wrong car.

 

[JACK SH!T]

was playing unwheel MSU decided hey what the hell lets put the graphics settings up to the max I put everything up and then put on antialiasing and anistropic filtering I'm like whoa sweeeeet pressed the nitrous button and all hell broke loose my screen size went smaller picture was in top left 1/4 of original size and on the bottom and right it was stretched out I have the latest UT2004 patch and the latest drivers

EDIT:I also noticed that I can pick my car only once in a match any way to display the menu again?

Sounds to me like what's called "screen tearing". Basicly, your fps are too fast for your monitor. Go into your gfx card settings and enable v-synk. What this will do is force the card fps to synk-up with your monitors refresh rate.
In other words your monitor can only run at say 85fps (I don't know what your monitors rate is, but you can find it in your start/control panel/settings), and your gfx card is running at 200fps (again, I don't know your settings here either). The gfx card is sending images faster than your monitor can display them, hense the term "screen tearing".
If you enable the v-synk setting, the gfx card will discover the monitors ideal refresh rate and only send the correct fps.
Don't worry if your fps drops to something like 85fps. The human eye only need 11 fps to see steady motion (NFL slow motion is something like 15fps). TV shows are only 30fps, so if you get 80+fps, you're gold

 

[xSONICx]

my specs I am using (slowest pc I have others at my dads)

Jetway 663AS
AMD ATHLON 1.1Ghz
IBM deskstar 80gb hdd
3DLABS Geforce FX5600 128mb (newest nvidia drivers)
256mb ram
15 inch monitor (blew up the 24 with a doom3 tweak grrr)

I went back to using my favourite drivers instead of the nvidia ones (www.omegadrivers.net) and the stretching effect has gone so it's obviously gay nvidias fault and not yours

EDIT:the spectate thing didn't work for me I tried that before posting my original message

 

[XV-745]

Vehicle switching definitely doesn't work for me. Once I pick a car, I am stuck with it until the next race. Is this a feature or a bug?

Also, my voice binds don't work anymore. I wanna be able to yell "Fear me!" when I run somebody off the road!!

 

[JACK SH!T]

my specs I am using (slowest pc I have others at my dads)

Jetway 663AS
AMD ATHLON 1.1Ghz
IBM deskstar 80gb hdd
3DLABS Geforce FX5600 128mb (newest nvidia drivers)
256mb ram
15 inch monitor (blew up the 24 with a doom3 tweak grrr)

I went back to using my favourite drivers instead of the nvidia ones (www.omegadrivers.net) and the stretching effect has gone so it's obviously gay nvidias fault and not yours

EDIT:the spectate thing didn't work for me I tried that before posting my original message

ok, instead of downloading drivers from a 3rd party... try the Nvidia drivers

 

[Shrimp]

Vehicle switching definitely doesn't work for me. Once I pick a car, I am stuck with it until the next race. Is this a feature or a bug?

I'd guess you'd call it a 'feature' since it is by design.


I'll check that taunt thing out...

 

[XV-745]

Shrimp, regarding the inability to switch vehicles in game, you say "I'd guess you'd call it a 'feature' since it is by design.". But further above you said, "If you spectate/rejoin you get to select another car..."

So which is it?

 

[The_Head]

ok, instead of downloading drivers from a 3rd party... try the Nvidia drivers

If you read his post you will notice that he said they're crap. the omegadrivers worked and solved his prob...
(hopefully it will fix mine)

 

[Shrimp]

Shrimp, regarding the inability to switch vehicles in game, you say "I'd guess you'd call it a 'feature' since it is by design.". But further above you said, "If you spectate/rejoin you get to select another car..."

So which is it?

You're not supposed to change your car - the spectate/join thing was more of a bug/exploit

 

[XV-745]

You're not supposed to change your car - the spectate/join thing was more of a bug/exploit

I was playing last night with a newcomer to the UW world. First thing he asked me... "How do you change your car?". Unless you know the maps by name, it's generally impossible to guess what kind of car you're going to need. If the ability to switch cars is going to remain disabled, perhaps a screenshot of the track or at least a text description of the track style should be available to players at the car selection screen. I know the maps pretty well now, but I still sometimes choose the wrong car by mistake (itchy mousing finger). On a map like Colorado, that might mean 15 minutes of frustration as you crawl along in your POS Car with F1's flying past you.

Maybe the designers' attitude is: T.S. - pick the right car or suffer the consequences. That's fine, but I'd be willing to bet that getting owned because of a few wrong car choices in a row will be all that it takes to turn away some folks who might otherwise enjoy your mod. Just my $0.02.

PS - Don't take my criticism the wrong way. I love this mod. In fact, that's the whole reason I'm bothering to post my thoughts on this matter (I'm really not much of a forum crawler). You guys have an excellent thing going here. I just wanna see more people on those servers!! :tup:

 

[)>-SARS]

is there possibly a way to program it so if you pick a new car you have to start the race over , instead of just being stuck with the car?

 

[XV-745]

is there possibly a way to program it so if you pick a new car you have to start the race over , instead of just being stuck with the car?

:tup: Excellent idea!

 

[xSONICx]

ok, instead of downloading drivers from a 3rd party... try the Nvidia drivers

it was the nvidia ones giving me the trouble the 3rd party ones fixed the bug

 

[JACK SH!T]

it was the nvidia ones giving me the trouble the 3rd party ones fixed the bug

I went to the omega page you posted, but couldn't find anything to d/l Looks like they have lots of stuff, but I couldn't find a d/l link for any drivers.

I did get a message from God there though