Bad graphics

[acidreflex]

Hey guys.. noob to the board.... I have just recently installed Unreal on my laptop (specs below), and the graphics are really horrible on it. They look worse then they did on my old machine. I have d/l'd the patches and the OpenGL file off of this site, but the readme is all jumbled up and I can't understand what it says. I tried replacing the OpenGl file and removing the Unreal.ini file (all I could understand in the readme), but that still did not make any difference. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Specs on laptop:
Pentium 4-m 1.6GHz
256MB Ram
16MB GeForce 2GO Video
On-Board Audio(Stereo)
24x Cd-Rom


Ac|d_R3fL3x

[Goofus_Maximus]

Give us details about your new system.  What type of computer is it? What graphics card? What version of drivers for it?  What OS are you using?  Ditto for your old system.

Do the graphics look just as bad in D3D as OpenGL? In what way do they look bad?

[Ravenus]

I have just recently installed Unreal on my laptop ...and the graphics... look worse then they did on my old machine.  I have d/l'd the patches and the OpenGL file off of this site, but the readme is all jumbled up and I can't understand what it says.  I tried replacing the OpenGl file and removing the Unreal.ini file (all I could understand in the readme), but that still did not make any difference.

Hey ar, welcome to oldunreal.
First question is, are you running unreal in your laptop with the same settings that you ran on your desktop.
Secondly, I don't think you've followed the instruction set correctly. Just in case (I'm assuming that you're running Unreal and not Unreal Gold):
1. Do a fresh install of Unreal and before starting the game delete the unreal.ini file
2. Replace the default openGL dll with the one d/led from oldunreal
3. Start the game and select openGL as your renderer, set resolution and other basic preferences
4. Exit the game, go to the game's system directory and open the unreal.ini file
5. Look for the following heading - [OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice]
6. Replace the instruction set under this heading with the follwing instruction set:

UseS3TC=False
UseTNT=False
MinDepthBits=16
MaxLogUOverV=8
MaxLogVOverU=8
UseMultiTexture=True
UsePalette=True
UseAlphaPalette=True
ShareLists=False
AlwaysMipmap=True
DoPrecache=True
Translucency=True
VolumetricLighting=True
ShinySurfaces=True
Coronas=True
HighDetailActors=True
DetailTextures=True
UseTrilinear=True
MaxAnisotropy=0
SupportsLazyTextures=0
GammaOffset=0.000000
LODBias=0.000000
MaxTMUnits=0
RefreshRate=0
DisableSpecialDT=False
UseFilterSGIS=False
Use4444Textures=False
UseVertexSpecular=False
DescFlags=0

7. Make sure your desktop is set to 32-bit color since Unreal looks bad in 16-bit
6. You should be looking at a far improved game now.