NiteX
03-27-2004, 06:59 PM
I bought my copy of UT2004 the first day it came out, I own the US-DVD version. I noticed that the full game has been giving me some problems the same as the demo did, and some new ones as well. The demo played pretty fast on my PC, I didnt have many in game problems. The main thing was the demo didnt always start up right. Sometimes it would start up normally at first then crash back to the desktop, so I would try again, this time I didnt have to wait for the game's splash screen loading, it just brought me straight to the game but I would get the message "Could not connect to server" and I had the choices of Main menu, server screen, or quit. It was rather confusing when it told me that since I had just started up the game, and didnt attempt to join a net game. That problem didnt bother me too much I enjoyed the game enough to let that slide.
Now, the full version game I was expecting for this problem to be gone, but right when I finished the install it did the exact same thing, I was disappointed but I didnt care much because I had the full game of UT2004, eventually this stopped. Now it only does it rarely. I also had a problem with joining a Assualt game once, for some odd reason it told me my CD-Key was in use, this surprised me a good bit since I had no clue how my CD-key was obtained by anyone, this never happened again though.
My biggest two problems is when I start loading a map, the demo took maybe 30 to 40 seconds to load any of the maps. For the full game it takes literally 2 to 3 mins. now. This makes me rather upset since on some net games I finish loading right when either my team's power core has been almost destroyed or has been destroyed. I dont undestand why it takes so long to load now, almost every map for all game types takes the game amount of time. The second thing that is bothering me is my ping, when I first had the game in everything was maxed out to the highest settings, I think everything was on Very High and it ran with no problems, my rez was and still is 800x600 32-bit. My ping was always around the same as others on the maps, usually 60 or sometimes 90 depends on the amount of people playing. I started noticing my game was going alot slower than usual so I checked my ping and it was around 500 when the highest anyone else had was 90. I didnt understand why, what happen all of a sudden to make my ping shoot up that much? So, I lowered my settings to high, that did a little bit for sometime my ping was normal around 50 again, but my frames went even slower. I dont mind so much about my shifting ping what really is bothering me is the amount of loading time I now have to deal with and sit through, I have a friend whos PC is basicly around the same speed as mine, his takes maybe 30 secs. mines take 3 mins. Why the hell is it doing this? I know that many people are having problems and mine probably wont be even dealt with, but I hope sometime soon there will be a patch and maybe that might help me out.
My PC specs: AMD 2400+ 512 DDR RAM Geforce4 Ti 4200 and I have a ASUS A7V8X-X motherboard.
Does anyone else have loading problems? I want to know if a AMD 2400+ should take 2 to 3 mins to load any map.
Now, the full version game I was expecting for this problem to be gone, but right when I finished the install it did the exact same thing, I was disappointed but I didnt care much because I had the full game of UT2004, eventually this stopped. Now it only does it rarely. I also had a problem with joining a Assualt game once, for some odd reason it told me my CD-Key was in use, this surprised me a good bit since I had no clue how my CD-key was obtained by anyone, this never happened again though.
My biggest two problems is when I start loading a map, the demo took maybe 30 to 40 seconds to load any of the maps. For the full game it takes literally 2 to 3 mins. now. This makes me rather upset since on some net games I finish loading right when either my team's power core has been almost destroyed or has been destroyed. I dont undestand why it takes so long to load now, almost every map for all game types takes the game amount of time. The second thing that is bothering me is my ping, when I first had the game in everything was maxed out to the highest settings, I think everything was on Very High and it ran with no problems, my rez was and still is 800x600 32-bit. My ping was always around the same as others on the maps, usually 60 or sometimes 90 depends on the amount of people playing. I started noticing my game was going alot slower than usual so I checked my ping and it was around 500 when the highest anyone else had was 90. I didnt understand why, what happen all of a sudden to make my ping shoot up that much? So, I lowered my settings to high, that did a little bit for sometime my ping was normal around 50 again, but my frames went even slower. I dont mind so much about my shifting ping what really is bothering me is the amount of loading time I now have to deal with and sit through, I have a friend whos PC is basicly around the same speed as mine, his takes maybe 30 secs. mines take 3 mins. Why the hell is it doing this? I know that many people are having problems and mine probably wont be even dealt with, but I hope sometime soon there will be a patch and maybe that might help me out.
My PC specs: AMD 2400+ 512 DDR RAM Geforce4 Ti 4200 and I have a ASUS A7V8X-X motherboard.
Does anyone else have loading problems? I want to know if a AMD 2400+ should take 2 to 3 mins to load any map.