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Random Freezing in Unreal and Unreal Tournament

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First post, by OpenRift

Posted on 2021-06-28, 19:40

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I've been having this issue with running Unreal and UT99 through dgVoodoo's glide wrapper where the game will hitch for about 5-10 seconds, usually upon loading into a map. Like, I'll have loaded in, I look around for a moment, and then it just freezes. The weird thing is that it does seem to go away after playing a bit, but just when I think it's gone, I play the next day and the hitching is back (probably comes back after a reboot). This doesn't seem to happen with other games that I use dgVoodoo's glide with, only Unreal and UT99. Does anyone know a way to fix this?

Reply 1 of 5, by ZellSF

Posted on 2021-06-30, 18:00

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Do you get the same freezes with nGlide?

Reply 2 of 5, by OpenRift

Posted on 2021-06-30, 19:25

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ZellSF wrote on 2021-06-30, 18:00:

Do you get the same freezes with nGlide?

No I don't , only with dgVoodoo.

Reply 3 of 5, by FulValBot

Posted on 2021-06-30, 22:27

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I think that another game that freezes is GTA2, and only with glide mode... and it freezes also with nGlide (already tested with that)

Reply 4 of 5, by xcomcmdr

Posted on 2021-07-01, 06:19

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Why not use the direct 3d 10 or opengl renderer instead of dgVoodoo2 ?
Direct3D 10 Renderer for Unreal Engine 1 / 1.5 (Unreal, UT 99, Deus Ex)

Also, look up the OldUnreal patchs, both for Unreal and UT99. It fixes a lot of problems:
https://www.oldunreal.com/downloads/unreal/ol … unreal-patches/
https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournament … atches/releases

I use the steam version + old unreal patch + opengl renderer without any issue.
In my experience, it also still offers the choice to use the Glide, D3D9, XOpenGl, and Software renderers (at least for UT99).

Reply 5 of 5, by ZellSF

Posted on 2021-07-02, 18:05

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xcomcmdr wrote on 2021-07-01, 06:19:

Also, look up the OldUnreal patchs, both for Unreal and UT99. It fixes a lot of problems:
https://www.oldunreal.com/downloads/unreal/ol … unreal-patches/
https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournament … atches/releases

Should also mention that the Unreal Tournament patch is relatively new (end of 2020). I thought no one was patching Unreal Tournament any longer, and suddenly a fix to make the game actually work well in 4K (earlier I used 1080p + DxWnd to force resolution, but that has occasional glitches).

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