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First post, by hellfire_raptor

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Hi, i come witha trouble on mi pc. The specs are:
Pentium iii 733 mhz
320 mb ram
Nvidia 2 mx400
Sound blaster live
Windows 98 se (i already installed the latest drivers and dx9)
When i open unreal tournament 99 with dx compatible mode, the game works more or less well, with affordable fps, but at 2 minutes aprox, the game stutters and finally, freezes. If i can close it and go back to win, statbar shows that it only left 1 or 2 mb from the ram and the cpu usage cant go down from 60% (in a idle, the pc only uses 150mb at max and less than 10% in cpu usage.
Noteworthy, if i run the game on open gl mode, the game works flawlessly. The problem is only with dx mode

Thanks

Reply 1 of 2, by auron

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i would try utglr or utd3d9r, these are recommended anyway as the stock gl renderer was left in beta state and has some bugs: https://www.cwdohnal.com/utglr/

also, if 98se uses 150mb of RAM just while idling, something seems very wrong. you didn't install any of those unofficial service packs or other unnecessary bloat? could be malware even.