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2007 iMac - Unreal/2 Game Problems

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Frommel

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Sep 4, 2007
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Has any one tried the old, but still cool game Unreal 2 or 1 on the new Alu, iMac?

I use Windows XP with Bootcamp, and the games are just choppy but at the same time very speeding!

Do I have to wait for new (bootcamp) drivers for the ATI 2600XT?
or has any one else already have a solution?
or.. is it something else?
please help me!
thanks in advance :)
oh, and the game I use is the Unreal Anthology pack.
 
I'm not familiar with those 2 versions however I play UT2004 which flies but only because the developer has shipped the UB update to work with the Intel based Macs. The older versions most likely will not get the update and so they will play very slow and choppy because the game is being ran under Apple's Rosetta technology.
 
Frommel said:
Has any one tried the old, but still cool game Unreal 2 or 1 on the new Alu, iMac?

I use Windows XP with Bootcamp, and the games are just choppy but at the same time very speeding!

Do I have to wait for new (bootcamp) drivers for the ATI 2600XT?
or has any one else already have a solution?
or.. is it something else?
please help me!
thanks in advance :)
oh, and the game I use is the Unreal Anthology pack.
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I know from reading the reviews on the card that it does really well (not great but fairly good) with newer games and doesn't do so hot against older games.

However, that being said, I decided to try something I saw in the Apple Discussions about loading the Catalyst drivers in bootcamp and WOW ZOMG (to use this generations catch phrase) my BF2142 screamed!!!

I was really happy, no lock ups or cut outs. You can try that.

The idea was pretty simple and I know there's instructions here on Macrumors and in Apple discussions but to paraphrase:

While in bootcamp...
Download the catalyst drivers 7.9 (Windows XP since that's what I'm running, unsure how the vista ones work but this works for Windows XP)
Run the install up until the point where it says it can't install them (that's ok, we just want the installer to unpack the files)
Then goto the device manager and click on display adapters and "update driver"
"Not at this time" (for internet search), then "I will choose the drivers... yada yada" then click "Have disk" and point it to the C:\ATI\Support\I can't remember the rest of the path.inf
let it do it's thing then reboot.
You can also (if you like) install the ATI Tray Tools.

I did that and it removed a lot of artifacts in bootcamp as well as playability was extended and hasn't locked up all night.
 
The games you're trying are so old now, they might just have trouble with any graphics card from the last few years. OpenGL and Direct3D have moved on a lot.
 
kkat69 said:
I know from reading the reviews on the card that it does really well (not great but fairly good) with newer games and doesn't do so hot against older games.

However, that being said, I decided to try something I saw in the Apple Discussions about loading the Catalyst drivers in bootcamp and WOW ZOMG (to use this generations catch phrase) my BF2142 screamed!!!

I was really happy, no lock ups or cut outs. You can try that.

The idea was pretty simple and I know there's instructions here on Macrumors and in Apple discussions but to paraphrase:

While in bootcamp...
Download the catalyst drivers 7.9 (Windows XP since that's what I'm running, unsure how the vista ones work but this works for Windows XP)
Run the install up until the point where it says it can't install them (that's ok, we just want the installer to unpack the files)
Then goto the device manager and click on display adapters and "update driver"
"Not at this time" (for internet search), then "I will choose the drivers... yada yada" then click "Have disk" and point it to the C:\ATI\Support\I can't remember the rest of the path.inf
let it do it's thing then reboot.
You can also (if you like) install the ATI Tray Tools.

I did that and it removed a lot of artifacts in bootcamp as well as playability was extended and hasn't locked up all night.
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I tried your way but still a have the same problem!
with is weird because if a try a other game, from the 1999 Re-Volt its working pretty nice! same with Alice..

while Unreal Anhology is from 2006.. :)
and Unreal Tournament is working well, as well Unreal Tournament 2004.

oh well there is nothing more i can think of..
thanks for your help :)
 
I don't know about Unreal 2, but Unreal 1 has a problem with dualcore cpus, which results in veeeeeery speedy animations, but choppy framerates. I am 100% sure, that it's related to this problem an not the hd2600.
 
Zaibatsu said:
I don't know about Unreal 2, but Unreal 1 has a problem with dualcore cpus, which results in veeeeeery speedy animations, but choppy framerates. I am 100% sure, that it's related to this problem an not the hd2600.
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yup! thats exact what the problem.

is there any patch out there for that kind of problem?
or tweak?
 
If you start up the game, then control + alt + delete to the task manager, then find the game's process ie unrealtournament.exe. Then right click on it, go to set affinity, then uncheck CPU 1.
Then you can quit task manager and go back to the game, and hopefully it'll be running ok!
I think that should sort it, it does on my Core Duo Macbook anyway! :)
 
Hey,

Maybe a bit off topic, but can someone try the new Unreal Tournament 3 Beta Demo? I would really want to know how it runs on the new iMac.

Thanks,
Dr. Rengers
 
I wonder if it has a test bench built in it? Iam running the demo on a AMD4200/7600gs with 2 gigs and had to turn it down to 1024 x 768 to really get what I call good playable frames and smootheness. Pretty cool, its still UT but just faster card would be nice. Should run about the same maybe just a lil better on the imac.
 
PCRanger said:
If you start up the game, then control + alt + delete to the task manager, then find the game's process ie unrealtournament.exe. Then right click on it, go to set affinity, then uncheck CPU 1.
Then you can quit task manager and go back to the game, and hopefully it'll be running ok!
I think that should sort it, it does on my Core Duo Macbook anyway! :)
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Hey thanks!
That did work.. but I had to do that every time a started the game..
I figured out that if you go to the Unreal 2 icon, right click on it, preferences/compatibility/and check windows 98/ME.
Sinds then its working like a charm! :D
 
Dr. Rengers said:
Hey,

Maybe a bit off topic, but can someone try the new Unreal Tournament 3 Beta Demo? I would really want to know how it runs on the new iMac.

Thanks,
Dr. Rengers
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I tried it briefly (an hour or so). Seems to run well from what I can tell. However, unless I did something wrong, the demo was buggy. It starts out with all graphics settings reduced, and it looks awful. It took a few goes of bumping up the settings before they would stick. I also couldnt get it to display the fps (Yet a friend with a normal pc could do it). But it seemed fast enough.
Should be a good game :)

While im here.. UT2004 is the number one app that makes my new alu iMac freeze consistently. Somewhat annoying, as its the only game I really like to play. Oddly, it does this in OS X, as well as XP. Other games play fine (I tried a couple of demos).
UT2004 seems well known to cause these iMacs to freeze too. Heres hoping Apples forthcoming update will fix it, even if this doesnt explain why some folks can already play it fine :(
 
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