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[SOLVED] NFS-2000 and UT99 question on too new HW

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First post, by brostenen

Posted on 2015-09-22, 09:27

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Hi all....
I have these two favorite games of mine. NFS-Porsche-2000 and UT99. However they have issues on too new hardware, yet still Win98 machines. And I would like to know how to get rid of those issues.

NFS-2000:
When the hardware is too potent, stuff like GF4 and GF-FX5200. The game has some wierd issues regarding the text in the menu.
This can be solved with a simple tweak like AAx2 on the GF4 and AAx4 on FX-5200.
However. This makes the keyboard lockup or the mouse and keyboard lockup. Both in the menu and when I am driving.
I just can not seem to get rid of this issues. Remember, it is still within Win98. Is there a patch of some sort for this?

UT99:
This is a somewhat strange issue. It is texture-error of some sort. For instance. When I play "Facing worlds", the tower is not drawn
coorectly. In the distance, or the enemy tower so to speak. Other issues are stuff like windows/square lamps having jaggered pixels.
Or something like that. Cards like TNT2 and V3-3500 does not have this issue, yet I would like to play this game too on higher HW.

Do any of you know something about how to fix these issues. NFS-2000 is unplayable like this (on the highend HW), and UT99
is just something that is really annoying to look at. Not that it's unplayable, just a pain to look at when I know it's there.
Games that are from a later era, just not have these issues. Or at least, I have not had any issues with those games. (yet).

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by brostenen on 2015-09-22, 23:49. Edited 1 time in total.

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Reply 1 of 9, by PhilsComputerLab

Posted on 2015-09-22, 09:30

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I have UT99, so I can test that. But I don't have NFS-Porsche-2000.

The machine I'm currently working on is a 3.06 Pentium 4 and whatever graphics card I feel like using 😀

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Reply 2 of 9, by brostenen

Posted on 2015-09-22, 09:35

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Let me say, that these games that I have, is the barebone-first-release-editions. Nothing like "Gold", "Extreme" or "Millennium-edition" or anything like that, which publishers had a weird fetish to call them by. (remember when everything was to be named "2000/Millennium edition", and not only Windows)

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Reply 3 of 9, by oerk

Posted on 2015-09-22, 09:44

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I have the UT99 GOTY edition and it runs perfectly on anything from Windows 98 to a modern Windows 8 machine.

That's something I admire a lot. The ability to run on any machine from 2000 to today regardless of Windows version and hardware.

So, sorry I haven't encountered the issue you're facing. Maybe try a patch or later revision.

Reply 4 of 9, by brostenen

Posted on 2015-09-22, 09:55

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oerk wrote:
I have the UT99 GOTY edition and it runs perfectly on anything from Windows 98 to a modern Windows 8 machine.

That's something I admire a lot. The ability to run on any machine from 2000 to today regardless of Windows version and hardware.

So, sorry I haven't encountered the issue you're facing. Maybe try a patch or later revision.

Going to hunt down an update. That's for shure. Yet most of all, I am looking for the cause of these issues.
Perhaps it's the render that's causing the problem, or it is some low quality textures that I have on mine.
The other thing, is the NFS2000. It is really strange that the keyboard and the mouse locks up in the game.

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Reply 5 of 9, by Kerr Avon

Posted on 2015-09-22, 14:47

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Definitely patch Unreal Tournament up to version 4.36:

http://liandri.beyondunreal.com/Unreal_Tourna … Essential_Files

Then look through these links to see what you might need or want:

https://forums.unrealtournament.com/showthrea … on-new-hardware

http://www.kentie.net/article/d3d10drv/

http://www.cwdohnal.com/utglr/

Reply 6 of 9, by brostenen

Posted on 2015-09-22, 15:54

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Kerr Avon wrote:
Definitely patch Unreal Tournament up to version 4.36: […]
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Definitely patch Unreal Tournament up to version 4.36:

http://liandri.beyondunreal.com/Unreal_Tourna … Essential_Files

Then look through these links to see what you might need or want:

https://forums.unrealtournament.com/showthrea … on-new-hardware

http://www.kentie.net/article/d3d10drv/

http://www.cwdohnal.com/utglr/

Thanks... That last link has some pretty awesomme stuff.
Planning on keeping it as vanilla as possible.

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Reply 7 of 9, by brostenen

Posted on 2015-09-22, 23:48

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Got it all working now, on an P3-933 + GF4-ti4200.

What I did, was to update NFS-2K to official 3.5
And updated UT99 to version 436.
Then I cranked up AA to X4 in the nvidia panel.

Everything is just working nice. Played NFS-2K for an hour without any lockups.
UT99 is just rendered beautifully and without any glitches whatsoever at all.

Thanks for all the help here. 😀 Two of my top 5 most loved games, are now working 100%
And I can now go beyond GF2, V3 or G400 on these two games.
Radeon9800 did have issues, yet they were minor. Only few GFX errors in UT99.
Unpatched/vanilla/first-edition, these two games are just a bitch on nVidia cards, higher than GF2.

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Reply 8 of 9, by jesolo

Posted on 2015-09-23, 09:52

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NFS Porsche 2000, as I recall, had a problem with widescreen monitors on newer systems (like Win XP).
Worked fine with normal resolution (4:3).

Reply 9 of 9, by brostenen

Posted on 2015-09-23, 10:58

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jesolo wrote:
NFS Porsche 2000, as I recall, had a problem with widescreen monitors on newer systems (like Win XP).
Worked fine with normal resolution (4:3).

If it is vanilla edition, it has these issues on post-gf2 in win98.
That is for shure.

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