Damien's Stuff

For MacGuru's players there is a special files section located here. In there you will find some files you might need to play on the MacGurus server. This is a password protected page and you use the same password to load this page as you do to play on Macgurus UT server.

Here is my Unreal Tournament .ini file which will enable OpenGL rendering in UT! This will work with either nVidia GeForce cards OR ATI cards or any other card that supports openGL.. This is the only way to play UT. Beats the pants off RAVE rendering and lets all say it together.....software rendering SUCKS! Anyway if you have an installed and running UT just swap this UT .ini file for the one in your UT folder and your set! If you have just installed UT start it up first let it choose a renderer then shut down. NOW swap the .ini files. Restart!

A couple of notes:

1 Make sure you are using version 4.36 of UT. If you have an older version you can update for free here.

2 For OS 9 Ram allocation: Find out how much ram your system needs, add about 40 MB's to that # subtract the result from your total ram and give UT whatever you have left. Example: you have 768MB and your system wants 80 MB then you will want to give UT about 650 MB of ram to use. (768-80-40=648 no need to be hyper accurate) The reason for this is that when you start an openGL based game the openGL extensions asks the system for more ram and if you have given all available ram to the game then there won't be any for openGL and you will get poor performance if not a crash.

As you can see from the screenshots (at the bottom of this section) I am getting GREAT framerates. The 2 shots showing the frame counter are from my GeForce 2 and the Snow shot is from my GeForce 3. I included this because of a review I read that said they could not get the GeForce cards to perform and that they would not properly display the snow scenes from the Ice Station Zeto map. I do not seem to have that problem....maybe they need ME to set up the test machine they used :-)

Here are the Frame Rates:

Card, average/peak fps, Renderer (Peak rates are while lying dead and staring at the floor, something I seem to excel at!)

ATI Rage 128: 18/26 using Rave, 33/48 using OpenGL

VooDoo 5: 30/45 using Glide

GeForce 2MX: 65/283 using OpenGL

GeForce 3: 90/348

This was online against other people, in practice mode offline the GeForce 2 averaged over 100fps. The GF3 over 140

The V5 was in a B&W PowerMac G4 500 (upgraded) only and the nVidia GeForce 2MX & 3 was only in the Powermac 733. The Rage card has been tested in both machines with similar results.

UPDATE: I now have an nVidia 6800 ultra card and am embarrassed to post the frame rates

GOT LOW RAM? If you have 128MB or less of total ram then I suggest using RAVE rendering. Yes RAVE IS supported by the GeForce cards and many other cards other than ATI.

For GeForce and all other cards that support RAVE, use this .ini file.

For ATI cards use this .ini file.

TacticalOps! If you are running the TacOps umod here are some .ini's for you

For OpenGL TacOps use this ini file

To run RAVE for TacOps on non-ATI cards use this ini file. (this would be for low ram situations)