I could swear that my Unreal CD offers to install DX5. Wasn't Unreal released prior to Windows 98?

boxpressed wrote:

I could swear that my Unreal CD offers to install DX5. Wasn't Unreal released prior to Windows 98?

Unreal shipped in April 1998 and didn't have D3D support. D3D support came in like September or October in a patch and was initially specifically for the Matrox G200. That would most likely have been written for DirectX 6.

Unreal Gold ships with D3D 7 though for example.

Thanks. I was benchmarking Unreal 2.25 & 2.26 for the longest time using DX6.1. Couldn't understand how Glide could be faster on a PII than a fast PIII with a D3D videocard.

I was using Unreal with patch 224 and DirectX 7.0.
Perhaps I should try Unreal Gold.

I would install 2.26 first, non-Gold version. I have Gold, and it claims to be 2.26, but I also heard that it is tweaked in other ways.

Also, I read on Oldunreal, I think, that you should not skip over 2.25 if you plan to use a Voodoo card at some point. That is, install 2.26 over 2.25, not 2.24.