Unreal Tournament GOTY Video Glitch

somechick_73 · #1 (**permalink**) 01-23-2008, 07:59 PM

Before I installed my cpu, audio drivers, and service pack 2 it ran completely fine. But now it's glitching when I run, it jumps and misses frames. What the hell is going on and how do I fix it? >_<

Starsiege Tribes runs fine btw.

Chase_the_Bass · 01-23-2008, 08:13 PM

Starsiege tribes is approximately 10,000 years old.

somechick_73 · 01-23-2008, 08:15 PM

That games good though. but my comps way new. I love tribes. I wanna get tribes vengeance though, but still the issue at hand, how do I fix the video for UT GOTY?

**HeartAttack** · 01-26-2008, 10:41 AM

Is this the only game that screws up?

somechick_73 · 01-26-2008, 06:40 PM

Half life says it has known problems with this operating system. So it wont even install. I think thats because of the service pack 2, because i had it running on windows xp pro before without service pack 2 and it worked just fine. I haven't tried other games yet. I'm waiting on my friend to come over and bring me some. I'm thinking maybe the problem is that the direct X version with UT GOTY is just outdated so it doesn't work with service pack 2. So I might try to get a newer direct x version and see if that helps.

**Arcángel** · 01-27-2008, 11:37 AM

If I were you, to save yourself the heartache, I would make sure all the critical and security updates are installed on your machine, just in case.

Make sure that your graphics driver is updated too.

With regards to the updates, it'll be a long shit but, you may be lucky to download an update to stabliize the operating system enough so that you can run the game.

Otherwise, the only other option I would give you would be to run the game under what is called Compatibility Mode. That in a nutshell is basically running whatever the troublesome application is under a subsystem of Windows XP Service Pack 2. You can do this by right-clicking in the shortcut of the application in question and going into it's properties. From there, navigate to the Compatibility tab and check the box labeled "Run this program in compatibility mode for:". You have 4 choices of operating systems from there that you can choose from but, your best bet may be running it under Windows 98 since Windows 95 is just too old to begin with, and Windows NT and Windows 2000 are pretty much there to support legacy network applications based on the Windows NT kernel.

I hope that works.

somechick_73 · 01-27-2008, 05:51 PM

All my shits already up to date. when I put it up to date it got retarded. >_> I think I tried the compatibility thing to, but I will double check.

**HeartAttack** · 01-27-2008, 05:54 PM

What kind of CPU did you upgrade to? What kind did you have before?