COMMON PROBLEMS WITH INF - READ BEFORE POSTING!
Sublime originally reposted this on the old forums, eventually it got buried a few pages down and got forgotten, but this has some real good info about what some errors are and how to fix them. Also since I'm re-posting this I can add updates if anyone has them that will make this easier and eliminate alot of "overposting" of common questions.
Italicized items have been fixed since the original post of this thread. At least this is to the best of my knowledge.
Common Questions/Answers
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Before any of you post with your troubleshooting woes, please search the forum and see if your questions has been answered. The topic may not apply to the question so read them all. The first 2 pages should do. Now, to answer a couple of questions that get asked every single day.
1. Read the manual. Now, read it again. Follow it step by step.
2. <font color=yellow>FIXED for v2.86</font>Yes, it's really version 2.85.5. At smaller resoultions, (under 1024x768) you will not see the rest of the version number in the upper-left corner of the menu-screen. If you have any doubts you can do a CTRL-ALT-DEL and view the name of the window in the task list.
3. If you can't do (whatever it is you want to do, use flashlight, go prone, reload, etc.), it might be because you didn't bind the keys to it. Double-check your options menu to ensure that it is set correctly.
4. You do not start Infiltration from within UT. If you have this problem you haven't done number 1.
5. <font color=yellow>FIXED for v2.86</font>The General Protection Fault that you get upon running Infiltration can be taken care of by deleting the Running.ini file from the UnrealTournament\System directory, or simply starting UT (which should come up in a SAFE MODE) and then cancelling out of it.
6. Use <a href="http://www.aladdinsys.com/" target="_blank">stuffit 6</a> or <a href="http://www.maczipit.com/" target="_blank">zipit</a> to unzip the files to your Macintosh. Stuffit 6 fixed whatever caused it to corrupt and unzips it correctly, so these should work for you now., however there have been reports that Stuffit doesn't work to well on some Mac platforms. If you have any more information regarding this please contact me.
7. Read the manual.
8. Read the forums.
9. Read the manual and the forums.
10. Use the forum search command. It works.
11. If you experience lag/extra weapons on larger levels, try going to the console and typing FLUSH.
12. Yes, we know the 40mm grenades from both the H&K 69 and the M16A2 grenade launcher bounce off of targets at close range. It's supposed to be that way. They must travel approximately 14m before arming via a spin mechanism.
13. If the game suddenly starts to go in slow-motion, enjoy it for a minute and take the time to appreciate the incredible attention to detail in the animations. Once you have appreciated it long enough, open the console and type "slomo 1.0".
14. Yes, fileplanet can be as slow as a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter (when it even works), so I'd advise getting your INF <a href="http://www.sobservers.com/infiltration/INFUT/IfilesBodyFrame.html" target="_blank">here</a> as well as you can find some maps <a href="http://www.phillipsfam.com/html/realmaps.html" target="_blank">here</a>. That last link is courtesy of [Delta]Predator, Thanks Delta!
15. If you want to play the maps, get the map pack(s). You must have the map pack(s) to play the shooting range.
16. The advised order of installation for a <font color=red>CLEAN</font> install is as follows:
1. Unreal Tournament
2. Unreal Tournament Patch (latest as of time of this writing is 436)
3. Infiltration Map Pack #1 (280)
4. Infiltration Map Pack #2 (285)
5. Infiltration Map Pack #3 (286)
6. Infiltration Mod 2.86
I've done three machines this way without fail so it should work, if you've got an existing version (285 or older) I'd suggest removing and re-installing clean as you'll run into less hassles. All of the above files can be found <a href="http://www.planetunreal.com/infiltration/downloads280.htm" target="_blank">here</a>.
17. Look before posting.
18. OS X for the Macintosh seems to have issues running the game in Rave mode. In order to fix this people have been re-booting back to the old OS (9.1) and have been able to play without a problem. Any more input on this would be appreciated.
19. <font color=yellow>FIXED for v286</font>No you <b>CANNOT</b> fire while crawling prone, and as far as I know you're not supposed to be able to.
20. <font color=yellow>FIXED for v286</font>Yes it <b>IS</b> a known bug that when you are using a weapon with the scope in zoom mode (i.e. M16, Sig, Sniper Rifles) and quick-action to the grenades, you stay zoomed but have the ability to toss the grenades. You can cycle through the weapons and it will re-set the view until they fix this.
21. If you are experiencing an Infadds.u error, most likely your Infadds.u file is corrupted. You can download it <a href="http://members.home.net/jpetrusek/infiltration/InfAdds.zip" target="_blank">here</a>.
22. If you are running Windows 98, 98SE or ME with more then 512 megs of RAM, you will have to edit some system files. Check the link <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q253/9/12.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=RAM&rnk=10&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=WINME" target="_blank">here</a> for info on how to do it and what the problems are.
23. If you are experiencing slowdowns or poor performance, check below for some tips on increasing the performance and optimizing your system for best results. Again any comments/additions are welcome!
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<font size=12>OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES</font>
I've taken some hints from a recent PC Gamer magazine article, and applied them towards Infiltration for optimizing performance.
<b><font color="#FFFF00">NOTE: AS OF NOW THESE PROGRAMS/TECHNIQUES WILL ONLY WORK ON PC MACHINES. I AM NOT AT ALL FAMILIAR WITH MACINTOSH COMPUTERS SO I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO APPLY THESE TECHNIQUES.<br>
THE PROGRAMS MENTIONED IN THIS POST WILL NOT WORK ON WINDOWS 2000 or NT MACHINES.</b></font>
The first tip that I have for you involves your harddisk cache and optimizing it. Download <a href="http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/system/cb.htm" target="_blank">CacheBooster</a> and install it, when it's completed, launch the program from your Start menu, you'll get the following screen:
<img src="http://members.home.net/jpetrusek/performance/cacheboost.png"><br> From the drop-down menu I selected Gaming, then clicked on <b>Apply changes</b>, it will ask you if you want to apply them, click YES and then reboot.
Another way to increase performance of the game itself is to free up as much memory as possible and allocate it to Infiltration. You can do this with the aid of the <a href="http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/system/maxmem.htm" target="_blank">MaxMem</a> program and setting a heap memory size for the game.
To set the heap memory, right-click on your Infiltration Icon on your desktop, this should give you a pop-up menu, select <b>properties</b> from the menu and you'll see the Shortcut Properties. On the <b>TARGET</b> line place your cursor all the way at the far-right at the end. Then type in <b>-heapsize 90000</b>, this will allocate approx 90 megabytes of your memory to the program. It is reccomended that you do at least 2/3 of your system Ram, so if you've
got 64 megs, do -heapsize 42000, etc. The formula to figure it would be:
sysram * .666667 = 2/3 of sysram
256 * .666667 = 170
128 * .666667 = 90
64 * .666667 = 42
and so on, your target screen should now look like this:
<img src="http://members.home.net/jpetrusek/performance/shortcut.png"><br> In this case, I have 128 megs of RAM on this machine, so I set the heapsize to 90000
Another trick is to be able to have as much free memory available to the game when you play it, optimally this would be to reboot your PC each time you want to play to flush the memory clean. Most of us don't want to do this and would prefer another method. Well if you download <a href="http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/system/maxmem.htm" target="_blank">MaxMem</a>, you can clear your memory. Upon installing the program you will get a little black box in your system tray, right-click on this and select <b>Config</b> from the pop-up menu, this will bring up a screen with some slider bars and a pull-down menu. Depending on your optimization likes, you can choose how much ram to leave available/free up with each run of the program.
<img src="http://members.home.net/jpetrusek/performance/maxmem.png"><br> I selected <b>Perform Agressive Cleanup</b> from the list. Click the <b>OK</b> button and you should be back at your desktop. Now position your cursor over the black box in the system tray, you should get a pop-up that says Free: 81M (64%) or something along those lines, your numbers will most likely be different then mine depending on how much ram you have, etc. Left-click once on the box and your computer will run for a few seconds, you should notice a white bar move from the top to the bottom of the black box, and when you put your mouse over the box again, your Free memory message should be a bit higher now having cleared out some extra space.
I applied these tricks and <b>DID</b> notice an increase in game performance. I gained a few extra FPS (about 7-10 depending on the map) and it did seem to run a bit smoother. I'm sure depending on your system you will notice more/less. I have applied this to one of my machines:
AMD T-bird 900
128 PC133 ram
Win98SE
ATI Radeon 64 DDR
Cable connection
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Geforce Users: Tips on improving Performance with OpenGL. Courtesy of /\l!eN[RIP]
First of I would like to say that running Inf in OpenGL will increase system performance slightly as opposed to D3D in 32 bit. Opposed to D3d 16 bit, OpenGL in 32 bit is slightly havier to run, but it looks a 1000 times better!
To set it up:
1) First of dl the latest OpenGL.dll from here:http://unreal.epicgames.com/ and place it in your UnrealTournament/system dir
2) Edit your Infiltration.ini under the head '[OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice]' so it will look loke this:
RefreshRate=60 <------ IMPORTANT set this to your monitor refreshrate
DetailTextures=1
UseTrilinear=1
UseS3TC=1
UseTNT=0
LODBias=0
UseMultiTexture=1
UsePalette=1
UseAlphaPalette=0
Translucency=1
VolumetricLighting=1
ShinySurfaces=1
Coronas=1
HighDetailActors=1
MaxAnisotropy=0
AlwaysMipmap=0
UsePrecache=0
SupportsLazyTextures=0
3) Set your desktop to use 32 bit (True Color).
4) Set Infiltration to use OpenGL/32 bit (True Color).
5) Enjoy Inf with (almost) no grafical glitches in OpenGL. Especially check your guns, which look awsome now!
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Again I am simply reposting this from the other forum as they might all go ka-put, this was originally posted by Sublime so all credits go to him, I'm just posting it here as it helped me immensely as well as others I'm sure. I'd like to keep this updated perhaps with some new errors/bugs, if anyone has any please add them to this and I'll update the listing as necessary.
Moderators please don't delete/close this thread if the others are moved over, I'd like to keep this one up to date and keep it near the top of the listing to help.
If there are any broken links, bad info, or corrections, please feel free to let me know. Email me at wiseassbnty@yahoo.com or ICQ me at 35477997 and I'll make the changes..
<font color = "#FF0000">If anyone has any info regarding the installation of the game onto a mac, when is the best place to put the mac browser in? See #16 for PC reccomended install, I would like some info on a MAC install though..</font>
<font color="#0000FF">Last updated
Sublime originally reposted this on the old forums, eventually it got buried a few pages down and got forgotten, but this has some real good info about what some errors are and how to fix them. Also since I'm re-posting this I can add updates if anyone has them that will make this easier and eliminate alot of "overposting" of common questions.
Italicized items have been fixed since the original post of this thread. At least this is to the best of my knowledge.
Common Questions/Answers
<hr>
<b>
Before any of you post with your troubleshooting woes, please search the forum and see if your questions has been answered. The topic may not apply to the question so read them all. The first 2 pages should do. Now, to answer a couple of questions that get asked every single day.
1. Read the manual. Now, read it again. Follow it step by step.
2. <font color=yellow>FIXED for v2.86</font>Yes, it's really version 2.85.5. At smaller resoultions, (under 1024x768) you will not see the rest of the version number in the upper-left corner of the menu-screen. If you have any doubts you can do a CTRL-ALT-DEL and view the name of the window in the task list.
3. If you can't do (whatever it is you want to do, use flashlight, go prone, reload, etc.), it might be because you didn't bind the keys to it. Double-check your options menu to ensure that it is set correctly.
4. You do not start Infiltration from within UT. If you have this problem you haven't done number 1.
5. <font color=yellow>FIXED for v2.86</font>The General Protection Fault that you get upon running Infiltration can be taken care of by deleting the Running.ini file from the UnrealTournament\System directory, or simply starting UT (which should come up in a SAFE MODE) and then cancelling out of it.
6. Use <a href="http://www.aladdinsys.com/" target="_blank">stuffit 6</a> or <a href="http://www.maczipit.com/" target="_blank">zipit</a> to unzip the files to your Macintosh. Stuffit 6 fixed whatever caused it to corrupt and unzips it correctly, so these should work for you now., however there have been reports that Stuffit doesn't work to well on some Mac platforms. If you have any more information regarding this please contact me.
7. Read the manual.
8. Read the forums.
9. Read the manual and the forums.
10. Use the forum search command. It works.
11. If you experience lag/extra weapons on larger levels, try going to the console and typing FLUSH.
12. Yes, we know the 40mm grenades from both the H&K 69 and the M16A2 grenade launcher bounce off of targets at close range. It's supposed to be that way. They must travel approximately 14m before arming via a spin mechanism.
13. If the game suddenly starts to go in slow-motion, enjoy it for a minute and take the time to appreciate the incredible attention to detail in the animations. Once you have appreciated it long enough, open the console and type "slomo 1.0".
14. Yes, fileplanet can be as slow as a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter (when it even works), so I'd advise getting your INF <a href="http://www.sobservers.com/infiltration/INFUT/IfilesBodyFrame.html" target="_blank">here</a> as well as you can find some maps <a href="http://www.phillipsfam.com/html/realmaps.html" target="_blank">here</a>. That last link is courtesy of [Delta]Predator, Thanks Delta!
15. If you want to play the maps, get the map pack(s). You must have the map pack(s) to play the shooting range.
16. The advised order of installation for a <font color=red>CLEAN</font> install is as follows:
1. Unreal Tournament
2. Unreal Tournament Patch (latest as of time of this writing is 436)
3. Infiltration Map Pack #1 (280)
4. Infiltration Map Pack #2 (285)
5. Infiltration Map Pack #3 (286)
6. Infiltration Mod 2.86
I've done three machines this way without fail so it should work, if you've got an existing version (285 or older) I'd suggest removing and re-installing clean as you'll run into less hassles. All of the above files can be found <a href="http://www.planetunreal.com/infiltration/downloads280.htm" target="_blank">here</a>.
17. Look before posting.
18. OS X for the Macintosh seems to have issues running the game in Rave mode. In order to fix this people have been re-booting back to the old OS (9.1) and have been able to play without a problem. Any more input on this would be appreciated.
19. <font color=yellow>FIXED for v286</font>No you <b>CANNOT</b> fire while crawling prone, and as far as I know you're not supposed to be able to.
20. <font color=yellow>FIXED for v286</font>Yes it <b>IS</b> a known bug that when you are using a weapon with the scope in zoom mode (i.e. M16, Sig, Sniper Rifles) and quick-action to the grenades, you stay zoomed but have the ability to toss the grenades. You can cycle through the weapons and it will re-set the view until they fix this.
21. If you are experiencing an Infadds.u error, most likely your Infadds.u file is corrupted. You can download it <a href="http://members.home.net/jpetrusek/infiltration/InfAdds.zip" target="_blank">here</a>.
22. If you are running Windows 98, 98SE or ME with more then 512 megs of RAM, you will have to edit some system files. Check the link <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q253/9/12.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=RAM&rnk=10&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=WINME" target="_blank">here</a> for info on how to do it and what the problems are.
23. If you are experiencing slowdowns or poor performance, check below for some tips on increasing the performance and optimizing your system for best results. Again any comments/additions are welcome!
</b>
<hr>
<font size=12>OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES</font>
I've taken some hints from a recent PC Gamer magazine article, and applied them towards Infiltration for optimizing performance.
<b><font color="#FFFF00">NOTE: AS OF NOW THESE PROGRAMS/TECHNIQUES WILL ONLY WORK ON PC MACHINES. I AM NOT AT ALL FAMILIAR WITH MACINTOSH COMPUTERS SO I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO APPLY THESE TECHNIQUES.<br>
THE PROGRAMS MENTIONED IN THIS POST WILL NOT WORK ON WINDOWS 2000 or NT MACHINES.</b></font>
The first tip that I have for you involves your harddisk cache and optimizing it. Download <a href="http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/system/cb.htm" target="_blank">CacheBooster</a> and install it, when it's completed, launch the program from your Start menu, you'll get the following screen:
<img src="http://members.home.net/jpetrusek/performance/cacheboost.png"><br> From the drop-down menu I selected Gaming, then clicked on <b>Apply changes</b>, it will ask you if you want to apply them, click YES and then reboot.
Another way to increase performance of the game itself is to free up as much memory as possible and allocate it to Infiltration. You can do this with the aid of the <a href="http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/system/maxmem.htm" target="_blank">MaxMem</a> program and setting a heap memory size for the game.
To set the heap memory, right-click on your Infiltration Icon on your desktop, this should give you a pop-up menu, select <b>properties</b> from the menu and you'll see the Shortcut Properties. On the <b>TARGET</b> line place your cursor all the way at the far-right at the end. Then type in <b>-heapsize 90000</b>, this will allocate approx 90 megabytes of your memory to the program. It is reccomended that you do at least 2/3 of your system Ram, so if you've
got 64 megs, do -heapsize 42000, etc. The formula to figure it would be:
sysram * .666667 = 2/3 of sysram
256 * .666667 = 170
128 * .666667 = 90
64 * .666667 = 42
and so on, your target screen should now look like this:
<img src="http://members.home.net/jpetrusek/performance/shortcut.png"><br> In this case, I have 128 megs of RAM on this machine, so I set the heapsize to 90000
Another trick is to be able to have as much free memory available to the game when you play it, optimally this would be to reboot your PC each time you want to play to flush the memory clean. Most of us don't want to do this and would prefer another method. Well if you download <a href="http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/system/maxmem.htm" target="_blank">MaxMem</a>, you can clear your memory. Upon installing the program you will get a little black box in your system tray, right-click on this and select <b>Config</b> from the pop-up menu, this will bring up a screen with some slider bars and a pull-down menu. Depending on your optimization likes, you can choose how much ram to leave available/free up with each run of the program.
<img src="http://members.home.net/jpetrusek/performance/maxmem.png"><br> I selected <b>Perform Agressive Cleanup</b> from the list. Click the <b>OK</b> button and you should be back at your desktop. Now position your cursor over the black box in the system tray, you should get a pop-up that says Free: 81M (64%) or something along those lines, your numbers will most likely be different then mine depending on how much ram you have, etc. Left-click once on the box and your computer will run for a few seconds, you should notice a white bar move from the top to the bottom of the black box, and when you put your mouse over the box again, your Free memory message should be a bit higher now having cleared out some extra space.
I applied these tricks and <b>DID</b> notice an increase in game performance. I gained a few extra FPS (about 7-10 depending on the map) and it did seem to run a bit smoother. I'm sure depending on your system you will notice more/less. I have applied this to one of my machines:
AMD T-bird 900
128 PC133 ram
Win98SE
ATI Radeon 64 DDR
Cable connection
<hr>
Geforce Users: Tips on improving Performance with OpenGL. Courtesy of /\l!eN[RIP]
First of I would like to say that running Inf in OpenGL will increase system performance slightly as opposed to D3D in 32 bit. Opposed to D3d 16 bit, OpenGL in 32 bit is slightly havier to run, but it looks a 1000 times better!
To set it up:
1) First of dl the latest OpenGL.dll from here:http://unreal.epicgames.com/ and place it in your UnrealTournament/system dir
2) Edit your Infiltration.ini under the head '[OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice]' so it will look loke this:
RefreshRate=60 <------ IMPORTANT set this to your monitor refreshrate
DetailTextures=1
UseTrilinear=1
UseS3TC=1
UseTNT=0
LODBias=0
UseMultiTexture=1
UsePalette=1
UseAlphaPalette=0
Translucency=1
VolumetricLighting=1
ShinySurfaces=1
Coronas=1
HighDetailActors=1
MaxAnisotropy=0
AlwaysMipmap=0
UsePrecache=0
SupportsLazyTextures=0
3) Set your desktop to use 32 bit (True Color).
4) Set Infiltration to use OpenGL/32 bit (True Color).
5) Enjoy Inf with (almost) no grafical glitches in OpenGL. Especially check your guns, which look awsome now!
<hr>
Again I am simply reposting this from the other forum as they might all go ka-put, this was originally posted by Sublime so all credits go to him, I'm just posting it here as it helped me immensely as well as others I'm sure. I'd like to keep this updated perhaps with some new errors/bugs, if anyone has any please add them to this and I'll update the listing as necessary.
Moderators please don't delete/close this thread if the others are moved over, I'd like to keep this one up to date and keep it near the top of the listing to help.
If there are any broken links, bad info, or corrections, please feel free to let me know. Email me at wiseassbnty@yahoo.com or ICQ me at 35477997 and I'll make the changes..
<font color = "#FF0000">If anyone has any info regarding the installation of the game onto a mac, when is the best place to put the mac browser in? See #16 for PC reccomended install, I would like some info on a MAC install though..</font>
<font color="#0000FF">Last updated
- 9/01/01 - Added /\l!eN[RIP]'s Geforce Optimization Techniques, updated the list for version 2.86
- 8/20/01 - Added over 512 meg memory issues for 98, 98SE and ME.
- 8/3/01 - Updated Installation Order to reflect version 2.85.5.
- 5/19/01 - Updated #14 to reflect [Delta]Predator's map server
- 5/2/01 - Added #21, Inffadds.u error/link
- 4/18/01 - Added Optimization Techniques
- 4/11/01 - Added #20 regarding the 'nades getting stuck in zoom mode
- 4/8/01 - Added #19 per some comments I saw this weekend in-game.
- 4/5/01 - Updated/removed old information
- 4/2/01 - Some links from old forums are bad, updated #7 regarding Mac Stuffit and Zipit.
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