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Death_Sargent
May 30th, 2007, 06:48 PM
unreal tournament crashes every time i try to play a large map.

sometimes it crashes randomly.

Can anyone help me?

im on ubuntu 7.04

dual 3.2 gig processors

1024mb ram

64mb ati radeon 9800 vram (using propreitary driver)
_simon_
May 30th, 2007, 06:51 PM
Have you got the latest patch, 3369-2?

If not, get it here (http://www.3dgamers.com/dlselect/games/unrealtourn2k4/ut2004-lnxpatch3369-2.tar.bz2.html)

Just extract it to your UT2004 folder.
Death_Sargent
May 30th, 2007, 07:32 PM
I have the latest patch from the official UT website.
Cappy
May 30th, 2007, 11:36 PM
The one on the official site is the old version 3355. 3369-2 fixed my UT2004 crashes. You need it =-/
Death_Sargent
May 31st, 2007, 02:50 PM
tried it still crashed my system
Cappy
May 31st, 2007, 03:04 PM
Sometimes the temporary files become corrupt. The game will recreate the files when they are removed. If this doesn't fix the problem you can always move back your old files:

mv ~./ut2004/Cache ~./ut2004/CacheOld
mv ~./ut2004/System/User.ini ~./ut2004/System/Userold.ini
mv ~./ut2004/System/UT2004.ini ~./ut2004/System/UT2004old.ini


You're using 32-bit Ubuntu, right?
Death_Sargent
May 31st, 2007, 03:44 PM
yes i am using 32 bit ubuntu only the files are in diff location i will try
Death_Sargent
May 31st, 2007, 04:17 PM
ok its still crashing on large maps
Death_Sargent
May 31st, 2007, 06:59 PM
anyone?
Cappy
May 31st, 2007, 08:06 PM
That should have been:

mv ~/.ut2004/Cache ~/.ut2004/CacheOld
mv ~/.ut2004/System/User.ini ~/.ut2004/System/Userold.ini
mv ~/.ut2004/System/UT2004.ini ~/.ut2004/System/UT2004old.ini
Death_Sargent
June 2nd, 2007, 10:57 AM
yeah i got that still no luck though
Jimbob17
June 10th, 2007, 10:42 AM
yeah i got that still no luck though

Did you fix this?? I had a similar problem on my system and I finally tracked it down to the RAM settings in the BIOS. Mine were set to Turbo or something and I changed this to 'By SPD' and the crashes disappeared.

HTH
Death_Sargent
June 10th, 2007, 07:44 PM
i don't even have those options in my bios
EazyŠ
June 11th, 2007, 02:49 AM
In your ut2004.ini try with changing VARSize=32 to VARSize=64 under [OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice]

Dont know if it will help, but it's worth a try :)
Jimbob17
June 11th, 2007, 04:35 PM
i don't even have those options in my bios

I take it you have a desktop system? As mine was RAM related, you could try removing a stick of RAM and testing UT2004. If it doesn't crash, try swapping the installed RAM with the other stick of RAM and repeat ...

When I had the problems with UT2004, I didn't have any problems when running in Windows 2000 ... so Linux may be a bit picky on the RAM (well, that's the way I see it).

If this doesn't help then I'm not quite sure what to suggest next.
Death_Sargent
June 11th, 2007, 06:40 PM
I take it you have a desktop system? As mine was RAM related, you could try removing a stick of RAM and testing UT2004. If it doesn't crash, try swapping the installed RAM with the other stick of RAM and repeat ...

When I had the problems with UT2004, I didn't have any problems when running in Windows 2000 ... so Linux may be a bit picky on the RAM (well, that's the way I see it).

If this doesn't help then I'm not quite sure what to suggest next.

no i have a laptop just can't find the jumpers to give me better bios control which i really want becuase the makers over clocked the thing
Death_Sargent
June 11th, 2007, 08:38 PM
In your ut2004.ini try with changing VARSize=32 to VARSize=64 under [OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice]

Dont know if it will help, but it's worth a try :)

Tried this and it did not work

but thanks for the sujjestion