WMP Restoration Thread, aka Pain2k3 news

[vulture987]

or i could say "Heh SCREW THAT, i got mah Desert Crisis runnin 1340000xInfinity resolution, running at 90000001 fps, with 12 ping on a 56k dialup connection. And the weapons are cooler."


but that would be a terrible lie. except the weapons part. we could all learn a lesson from the weapons of desert crisis. even jesus could learn a lesson from the weapons of desert crisis (namely how to fire a remington 1100 shotgun). anyway i will try that and then rant about the results.

 

[Kangus]

yes, I gotta get me that Desert Crisis mod.... it sounds P1MP!

 

[vulture987]

hey kangus i gained 20fps, thanx alot. ya that desert crisis mod is an amazing little bugger, the servers are excellent.

i am still annoyed with how much of a performance difference there is between maps. does anyone know of a distance fog adding mutator?

 

[Kangus]

20fps? wow. glad it worked....
I don't think there are any mutators that add strain reducing distance fog.... Fogmatch might do that though.... and if not, it's still an awesome mute to play with. Check crappy old UT2003hq.com

 

[vulture987]

Hey that sites not crappy, its just err.... goodness impaired....

 

[Smoke39]

Hello! I've been in a hotel in New Orleans for the past few days, hence my lack of posting. Now I'm at my grandmaw's house in Texas. And UT2K3 is mean, but it's got that cool world to screen function and xEmitters!

 

[vulture987]

Hello! I've been in a hotel in New Orleans for the past few days, hence my lack of posting. Now I'm at my grandmaw's house in Texas. And UT2K3 is mean, but it's got that cool world to screen function and xEmitters!

I lost him at "screen function..."

glad he posted tho

 

[Trentdaddy]

Heh, well maybe the Dragon can bring back some life into this WMP restoration and whatever SPOD spinnoff were are going to make(if we make it)

 

[Smoke39]

I lost him at "screen function..."

glad he posted tho

UT2K3 has a function called "worldtoscreen." It's spiffy.

 

[vulture987]

whats it do?

 

[Kangus]

I belioeve it's what Smoke used to draw all the dots on the screen for his Railgun's scope.

 

[vulture987]

oh ok

hmmm.... ture or false-adding extra files and add ons to UT and UT2k3 can hurt framerates.

i'm just wondering because i'm begining to see a pattern of slowdown in games i add skins/mods/maps to...

 

[Smoke39]

I belioeve it's what Smoke used to draw all the dots on the screen for his Railgun's scope.

You belioeve correctly, Kangu.

 

[EvilDrWong]

vulture - They shouldnt make much of a difference ingame, unless all of those custom models and skins are being used at the same time. It can slow down the initial load, but it shouldnt make your game run any slower

 

[vulture987]

well then i dont understand why the game slows down when i add stuff. itsnot my imagination when i go from 3rd highest resolution the game supports with high details etc, to 800*600 with low everything over a 3 month period.

 

[Trentdaddy]

Maybe you have too much stuff on your HD. I once had about 1GB or less of free space on my hard drive and my computer just went so slow to do anything. But then again, my computer is pretty lame.

Well, i shouldn't really know though.

 

[Neuroflare]

The more stuff there is on your hard drive the slower your computer will be. There's a program that comes with your comp that helps reduce this slowdown a lot. Noone ever uses it and that's why your computer sucks. It's called Defrag. Ya see, I'm guessing you haven't done this for a VERY long time (ever?) It will take a while, but it mkaes a very noticeable difference in your computer. There may also be curruptness. Here's my advice:
1)Run scandisk and defrag. There are other programs you could get, like norton systemworks, and you can ahve that scan your whole computer and fix all the crap that's wrong. You'd be surprised how bad your comp is running com[pared to how it should be running.

 

[Smoke39]

The last time I tried to defrag my comp the thingy said it wasn't fragmented enough. That was a long time ago. Thanks for reminding me.
/me walks off and forgets again before having a chance to perform one.

 

[Kangus]

I'd really reccomend Norton System Works or Norton Utilities if you can get ahold of one of them... they work faster and generally better

 

[Trentdaddy]

Man, this computer is to slow to defrag. I don't know how long it would take. Back before this computer was full of stuff (maybe it was full of stuff at the time, but not this much stuff) my mom defraged it once. She left it overnight and i don't even think it was halfway finished. I don't even know if it was 25% finished. I just really don't feel like fooling with it b/c one of would probably want to use it when its defraging and that would already screw it up more b/c of the memory. Not to mention my mom HAS to use it for work related stuff.