UT slowwwwwww movvvveeement!

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Hi
I player the original UT at lunch during my lunchbreak with about 10
other guys.
I'm playing on a Dell 2.8ghz 512, ATI Radeon x550 machine...
It's worked fine for about 9 months, then all of a sudden a
weird effect came in last Wednesday.
I've slowed down!
I now run at about 1/2 the speed of the other players.
The frame rate is still perfect but it effects everything.
The intro has slowed down too.
When I jump I jump slow... my translocator moves slowly through the
air...
all in all slow!

I've tried reinstalling the installation, to no avail.
I've updated the ATI drivers, no difference..
It's weird! As it's a work machine i can't pull it apart too
much.
If I run a practice session i can put my gameplay up to about 150% and
then it's nearly normal... but obviously running
on the lunchtime server i'm at a significant disadvantage!

Any ideas? :-(
I'm apart of a five a side CTF team and Deathmatch game so this is
quite detremental. Looks like I may have to go back to work!

Cheers
T

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theinvisibleGhost enlightened us with:
> I'm playing on a Dell 2.8ghz 512, ATI Radeon x550 machine...

Laptop or desktop?

> It's worked fine for about 9 months, then all of a sudden a weird
> effect came in last Wednesday.

What did you do to your computer that day, or the day before? And what
did the sysadmin do?

> I now run at about 1/2 the speed of the other players. The frame
> rate is still perfect but it effects everything. The intro has
> slowed down too.

Try moving ~/.loki/ut to another location, and try again. If you're on
windows, move ut/System/*.ini to some other spot, and try again.

MeltDown
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theinvisibleGhost enlightened us with:
> Hi

Hi! If you reply directly below some quoted text, it'll be clearer to
what you're referring to. Just a hint.

> 2. Wish I knew! I don't remember changing anything since then.
> About a month ago we upgraded to Active Directory across the network
> so Admin have done all sorts of stuff, however the other machines
> are all still fine, including one identical to mine.

Hmmm... weirdness.

> 3. I've tried a total reinstall removing the previous installation
> so nothing to do with the INI files....

Did you really make sure all .ini files were gone after you
uninstalled?

> I'm guessing somethings got a clock somewhere that isn't ticking
> right. I've not got any other Games I can test on it here. Tiz
> strange.

Try the .ini trick anyway. UT stores your computer's speed there, and
removing the right .ini will get it to re-evaluate the speed.

MeltDown
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theinvisibleGhost enlightened us with:
> Sorry am using Google Groups from work and it aint to clever (least
> i can't use it :-)

I think Mozilla Thunderbird does Usenet too. It'll be a lot better ;-)

> Thanks for your help, I'll give it another go at the end of the day.

Ok, let us know how it works out.

> I just clicked uninstall from Control Panel and then reinstalled to
> a seperate directory regardless, but i'll give it another go and do
> a decent search to make sure nothings left behind.

That's always a good idea.

MeltDown
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theinvisibleGhost wrote:

Not heard of this problem online - the server sets the speed then.

> 1.Desktop Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading.

Could this possibly be the cause?

UT doesn't know about hyperthreading, but it DOES have huge problems
with speed stepping on laptops and desktops using power management.
Play-speed issues are usually down to UT taking a CPU speed reading on
startup too quickly and the OS not giving 100% CPU to that process.

Suggestions:

0. Remove all spyware and scan for adware and viruses.
1. Run UT in Compatibility mode for 98.
2. Turn off power management in Control Panel.
3. Turn off power management in BIOS.
4. Any way to turn off hyperthreading temporarily?
5. Arm-wavingly suggest check firewall.

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theinvisibleGhost wrote:
>
> Cheers Everyone.
> The problem eventually solved itself!
>
> I think it was my mouse!
> I've got two Mice plugged in
> a Ms Intelli mouse I use for work (UT)
> and a Logitech Cordless mouse for Pleasure(Coding, documents emails).
>
> Any ho the logitech one ran low on batterys, so I replaced the
> batteries
> in it and wallah alls good again!
>
> I'm guessing the computer was constantly polling the mouse to check it
> was still there...
> "You there?"
> "...."
> "Hello?"
> "Yeh I'm Here"
> "You sure"
> "..."
> "You there?"
> "Yeh I'm here"
> :-)
> Only thing I think it can be, because nothing else changed, that fit in
> with the pattern.
>
> Any ho Games on! Cheers guys!
> T

I use a trackball for everyday use, and a mouse for gaming. When not
gaming, the mouse is on a stack of papers and stuff off to the side.
Occasionally, it will slip and move but I won't notice. Except that my
pointer goes off in some wacky direction. Whoah! Oh yeah, the
mouse...

Lisa