S3TC Texture fix that works!

[ZOLE]

Ok on further examination I found that playing on online servers with bots , the bots do indeed ice skate around, on Judges realm I couldnt respawn after allowing a bot to kill me.

answer your questions

1) Are you playing UT on a Desktop PC or a laptop?
PC

2)How many processors?

Single, P4, 3.0

3)Which operating system do you use?

4)Did the music stop playing instantly when you exit the game?
Did it before?

I have music turned off.....always have

5)On DM-Face do your Frames Per Second drop badly when you look at the ground?
no I am showing a constant 75 FPS. online on the chritmas tree face

6)What kind of video card are you using?
Asus AX 1650 pro 256 meg

7)Do you play on any servers with anticheat and if so can you still join them?
I can join every server.......


It is interesting to note...that I played a few servers when I wrote my thank you and it was awesome, no skate nothing......of course I did get a few files from the redirect on the WSP clan server....and that is where I first noticed the skating.....

Also On another note......when I end UT I must open taks manager and kill it there ....that has been going on for about 5-6 months now....I dont know what caused it....
Im going to clean my cache and see if I cant locate the Culprit skate file...



Z


XP pro

 

[Zur]

Also On another note......when I end UT I must open taks manager and kill it there ....that has been going on for about 5-6 months now....I dont know what caused it....
Im going to clean my cache and see if I cant locate the Culprit skate file...

Direct3d renderer.

 

[ZOLE]

Direct3d renderer.

What does that mean????



Hermskii,
I have started server 69.93.101.77 (pure High Speed Face)
I can play there without skate....Clean cache or otherwise

209.246.143.204 (judges Realm) on the other hand produces the skate , regardless if I load the server push from re-direct (after cache clean) Prior to or after the High speed face server.

Also offline practice session produces No skate

Z

 

[GreatEmerald]

Probably the server you see skating in has S3TC installed on the server itself.
And Azura means that you should switch your renderer to a more updated one, like OpenGL or D3D9, if you know how and where.

 

[Zur]

What does that mean????

The original d3d renderer causes ut to hang when you exit. The sound continues to play for a while before it shutdowns properly.

 

[Hermskii]

GreatEmerald is right...

GreatEmerald is right...

The only time you'll see skating bots if you installed this properly will be when you join a server that installed the S3TC textures. As noted in the instruction set I provided, the S3TC textures from UT CD #2 or from ANYWHERE for that matter are NEVER to be used on the server. They are ONLY to be used client side.

A way you can verify that is to join other servers and notice no skating on them. Everything you reported is good news to me. Thanks again for taking your time and yes the ongoing music issue is definately D3D related which is why that problem goes away with this fix since this fix uses OpenGL as the renderer. So Azura is right in what he said as well.

 

[ZOLE]

Thanks again for taking your time and yes the ongoing music issue is definately D3D related which is why that problem goes away with this fix since this fix uses OpenGL as the renderer. So Azura is right in what he said as well.

Actually I have had Open gl as a renderer for years now....and Im not talking about the game hanging for a lil bit.............Im talking about the game not completely closing.....unless manually closed by task manager..............and it still does after this new install.



Z

 

[GreatEmerald]

Do you use the updated OpenGL renderer? http://cwdohnal.home.mindspring.com/utglr/

 

[Hermskii]

So

Describe not completely closing. Does it still show the UT screen> IS it still playing the UT music? When you go to task manager it actually still list UT as running? Does your video display stay too bright and seem washed out?

 

[ZOLE]

I use the newest open GL renderer
Im pretty sure I had the utglr34 already installed....but Hermskii's fix included the open GL upgrade anyway.

Game closes.....sometime it stays bright....but it stays in the task manager....I cannot open UT....exit then open another instance without task manager end task.....



Z

 

[c4h]

Hermskii,
First, thanks for the textures.
What is not clear to me is why do textures need to be patched. Where can I find more info on that?

 

[Hermskii]

OK

OK c4h. You are welcome for the textures. I'm not a mapper or coder or anything like that. The textures aren't mine and never were. If I recall, certain original S3TC textures had something called "masking" problems with them and the patch addresses that at a programing level I think. I'm finding that there are now arguments being made about what needs to be used for the S3TC textures to function properly even from Diehard who in my opinion knows more about these textures than anyone to date. Here is a link to another thread here on this forum that is likely far more information than you could possibly want but maybe it is exactly what you asked for:

http://forums.beyondunreal.com/showthread.php?t=176064

I hope you try it my way as described at the top of this thread first and report back your findings and then go to that link and read through it carefully. Peace!

 

[c4h]

I have followed your instructions, but I'm using dx9 renderer instead of opengl. The textures work fine on most of the servers, with a few exceptions where I'm having that "sliding" bug.
I also have tried to use textures as is, without patching. The effects are the same.

 

[ralck]

this download doesn't work for me (it fails at the very end). are the textures and fix uploaded anywhere else?

edit:
i came across this link and don't know what exactly it is: http://www.unrealtexture.com/UT/Web...es/HighEnd/MasterFiles/MasterFilesHighEnd.htm

i'm working on a ut movie and trying to get the maximum possible graphics. what textures should i download?

 

[Raynor.Z]

You shouldn't need that fix if you're using textures from UnrealTexture.com. Those are recreation of UT textures on much higher resolution than original S3TC's.
Also take look at my signature if you want to tweak your UT for maximum visual pleasure.

 

[Diehard]

Yeah those textures offered there are the highest quality possible, and certainly usefull if you want to make a movie. And the fix, its like Raynor said, dont use it, its a serversided problem and not a problem for you. Admins need to fix, not clients.


At christmas i will release a large update for the DecayedS package, so you wanna keep an eye on that as well.
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[brdempsey69]

At christmas i will release a large update for the DecayedS package, so you wanna keep an eye on that as well.

You bet I will & thanks !!

 

[Hermskii]

c4h

Hey there ralck, which download doesn't work for you? When it fails, what does it say at the very end where you say it fails?

Diehard, Keep us informed of updates so I can try to keep the package current. It sucks updating it cause it is so big.

 

[Hermskii]

ralck

Hey there ralck, which download doesn't work for you? When it fails, what does it say at the very end where you say it fails?

Diehard, Keep us informed of updates so I can try to keep the package current. It sucks updating it cause it is so big.

 

[ralck]

nm, it worked. i just had to use downloadvmanager