I did various searches along the lines of "transfer UT install new PC" or "old Unreal Tournament new system" and came up with nothing relevant--hoping I can get a definitive answer on this either yes or no from the gurus here.
Just had a scare. I'm trying to resolve various issues relating to Infiltration and have a number of questions going in the Inf subforum right now. The questions have been posted with largely no responses for around five days now, so hard to say if they'll get answered. In my floundering attempts to address them unaided, I totally kaboshed my UT install. However, I had previously copied my installation to a backup drive, and I was able to recopy this back to my PC, and with the help of a UT99regfix I found to recreate the umod registry entries, it looks like everything's fine.
But this brings to mind an important question, which will certainly arise for me at some point in the future. It takes a lot of work to get UT exactly where you want it, with your perfect combination of mods and various types of settings. What a downer to have to do all the work over again on a new system! But obviously you can't just copy the UT directory over to another PC with different graphics and audio hardware; at the very least UnrealTournament.ini, and TC INIs like Infiltration's, would be messed up, and perhaps other stuff I don't know about. Is there a way to deal with this, maybe be installing UT on a new system from the orginal CD and whatever TCs one uses, then deleting everything from the new install EXCEPT UnrealTournament.ini and the TC INIs, and then copying over all the other files from your 'perfect' install? Would that work? Then all you'd have to do would be to tweak graphics and audio settings to fit your new hardware. Your userini files with your perfect keyboard setup, and all the TC userini's with their different keyboard settings, would remain intact from the previous incarnation and ready to use on the new system.
Or are there flaws I'm not thinking of with that scenario? Are we just stuck installing UT from scratch on new systems?
Just had a scare. I'm trying to resolve various issues relating to Infiltration and have a number of questions going in the Inf subforum right now. The questions have been posted with largely no responses for around five days now, so hard to say if they'll get answered. In my floundering attempts to address them unaided, I totally kaboshed my UT install. However, I had previously copied my installation to a backup drive, and I was able to recopy this back to my PC, and with the help of a UT99regfix I found to recreate the umod registry entries, it looks like everything's fine.
But this brings to mind an important question, which will certainly arise for me at some point in the future. It takes a lot of work to get UT exactly where you want it, with your perfect combination of mods and various types of settings. What a downer to have to do all the work over again on a new system! But obviously you can't just copy the UT directory over to another PC with different graphics and audio hardware; at the very least UnrealTournament.ini, and TC INIs like Infiltration's, would be messed up, and perhaps other stuff I don't know about. Is there a way to deal with this, maybe be installing UT on a new system from the orginal CD and whatever TCs one uses, then deleting everything from the new install EXCEPT UnrealTournament.ini and the TC INIs, and then copying over all the other files from your 'perfect' install? Would that work? Then all you'd have to do would be to tweak graphics and audio settings to fit your new hardware. Your userini files with your perfect keyboard setup, and all the TC userini's with their different keyboard settings, would remain intact from the previous incarnation and ready to use on the new system.
Or are there flaws I'm not thinking of with that scenario? Are we just stuck installing UT from scratch on new systems?
