UT2K4 Demo Out Now

[blurredvision]

Pretty fun game. Runs GREAT on my Athlon 2400+ w/GeForce 4400Ti with all details cranked and Quincunx AA. As for it looking better than previous incarnations, it looks just as good if not the same to me.

 

[ShyguyMX6]

Having trouble finding a single server to download the game, I finally got my cable connection speed issue resolved with my cable company the other day, was getting about 360k when I was supposed to be getting 2Mb, now got around 1900k, any ways this would probably be a good time to activate my 90 day subscription card for Fileplanet!!!

 

[ShyguyMX6]

MAN, I just found a plethora of servers to choose from just goto the link below then select, which version you want, The english windows version has the biggest selecton of links.

http://www.unrealtournament.com/ut2004/downloads.php

 

[ShyguyMX6]

YES!!!!!!!!!!

Finally, found a server, through Yahoo Games!, AM able to Download through them at 200 to 250 KB/sec (1600+ kb/sec), already got 25% downloaded as of this post, man am I gonna have fun tonoght!!!!

 

[buildabear]

Thanks, fragalicous!

 

[Regs]

The graphics seem very....low key. The textures are blurry , the sky's are blocky, it just seems ... less animated and fluid than 2003.

 

[skim milk]

Thanks for the link shyguy

I'm downloading it now



anyone know if this game will run on my laptop?? It's a dell 600m with ATI 9200 mobile 32 mb.

Thanks

 

[Reliant]

Originally posted by: Regs
The graphics seem very....low key. The textures are blurry , the sky's are blocky, it just seems ... less animated and fluid than 2003.

The textures should get better with the real game, the demo textures are usually lower res to conserve space.

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: kami
Sh!t, this game is freaking AWESOME!!!! Me and my roomies are having a blast with it on the LAN. Onslaught is sweet! All we've played so far is Deathmatch for a bit then Onslaught for hours! Haven't even tried the CTF map yet.

The vehicles are great. Very good physics, very intuitive and simple controls. Lots of great gags too. I got run over by one of the hovercraft things with the two propellers once and it showed my head get lopped off and shoot like 100 feet in the air, then my body slowly fell to its knees and then fell over. I almost fell off my chair laughing.

ROADKILL!!!

You must have very low standards

Coming from a lover of Conan and Triumph.....

 

[Regs]

Originally posted by: Reliant

Originally posted by: Regs
The graphics seem very....low key. The textures are blurry , the sky's are blocky, it just seems ... less animated and fluid than 2003.

The textures should get better with the real game, the demo textures are usually lower res to conserve space.

Ok, I figured somewhat that would be the case. Thanks.

 

[thatsright]

Getting SUPER Slowdown's in Assault & Onslaught??

In Assault I get about 20-30's FPS and in Convoy I got in the teens!!! THIS SUPER-BLOWS folks. At first I thought it was something wrong with my PC, but not the case. So I lowered the AA & AF settings in the Catalyst control panel to 2X, and nothing changed, still crappy performance, before I had it at 4X/8X.

So then I changed the game rez from 1280X1024 to 1024X768 and the FPS rate stayed the SAME!!!!

What's the Deal Epic/Atari?? I hope this is just due to it being a Beta Demo?

Here's what I got

P4 3.0c
ABIT IC7 w/ 800Mhz FSB
1GB PC3500 Kingston Hyper X @ 2-2-2-5
Radeon 9700 non-pro w/ CAT 4.2
Audigy 2 ZS
XP Pro

Anyone have any ideas??

 

[ShyguyMX6]

Its because its a beta demo, they're hoping to iron out the bugs in the game before its final release, the same thing happened with UT2003, everyone downloaded the beta of that one & complained about this & that & they tried to do their best to resolve most of the problems with the game before releasing the full retail version, probably the best thing to do is e-mail them with the problems your having & see if they give a response or most likely go to their forums site & make postings their, as many of their people surf the forums & pop in from time to time to help out & get info on what needs to be fixed. I too was a bit disappointed at the demo, well actually i haven't even gotten it to run smoothly yet, right now I'm temporarily using a 19" Flat screen TV for my monitor, & had the res set at 640x480 @ 32bit & still couldn't read the damned text of the menus & stuff so I didn't even know what I was selecting (except the main title screen menu's), & when i did try to start a instant action game it just took for ever to load, so i switched to software renderer, BAD IDEA, I have never played an Unreal game (Unreal, UT, Unreal 2, UT2003, I have all them), this slow, could barely select the menu options without lag, so unless the make a patch for the demo, I'll just wait another month or so for the full retail version, I can get by with playing UT2003 or Unreal 2 online for now.

My basic system specs:

AMD Athlon XP 2200+
AOpen AK77-333 mobo
2x256MB DDR333 (Crucial)
MSI GF4Ti4200 64MBDDR
SB Live!
WD 80GB ATA133 HD
WINXP Home

Just one question, I'm trying to figure out why the hell all the game mags reviews & articles keep mentioning that UT2004 will introduce vehicles to the game, which isn't exactly true, as UT2003 also had at least one experimental vehicle the Bulldog (it was a hidden level/map you had to unlock in the UT2003 directory, you had to change a certain files extension ( the files name is VehicleDemo, change the name to something like DM-VehicleDemo.ut2, & it should be available in the Deathmatch map lists, when you play the game) to one of the UT map extensions & copy it into the maps folder, then it was selectable in the game though it didn't really have true bot support, it was playable, & I don't remember if it (the Bulldog) had a weapon at all, but you could drive it around & run down guys with it.

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: thatsright
Getting SUPER Slowdown's in Assault & Onslaught??

In Assault I get about 20-30's FPS and in Convoy I got in the teens!!! THIS SUPER-BLOWS folks. At first I thought it was something wrong with my PC, but not the case. So I lowered the AA & AF settings in the Catalyst control panel to 2X, and nothing changed, still crappy performance, before I had it at 4X/8X.

So then I changed the game rez from 1280X1024 to 1024X768 and the FPS rate stayed the SAME!!!!

What's the Deal Epic/Atari?? I hope this is just due to it being a Beta Demo?

Here's what I got

P4 3.0c
ABIT IC7 w/ 800Mhz FSB
1GB PC3500 Kingston Hyper X @ 2-2-2-5
Radeon 9700 non-pro w/ CAT 4.2
Audigy 2 ZS
XP Pro

Anyone have any ideas??

Well..it certainly isnt like that with a lot of other people. I have a 2.2Ghz Athlon and 9700Pro and it runs like buttsex. It could be a number of things with your computer.

 

[Regs]

Buttsex? Where in the world do you come up with these analogies? lol. Buttsex, in my mind, would mean rough. As in the game ran rough.


*slaps himself

 

[Tetsuo]

Originally posted by: thatsright
Getting SUPER Slowdown's in Assault & Onslaught??

In Assault I get about 20-30's FPS and in Convoy I got in the teens!!! THIS SUPER-BLOWS folks. At first I thought it was something wrong with my PC, but not the case. So I lowered the AA & AF settings in the Catalyst control panel to 2X, and nothing changed, still crappy performance, before I had it at 4X/8X.

So then I changed the game rez from 1280X1024 to 1024X768 and the FPS rate stayed the SAME!!!!

What's the Deal Epic/Atari?? I hope this is just due to it being a Beta Demo?

Here's what I got

P4 3.0c
ABIT IC7 w/ 800Mhz FSB
1GB PC3500 Kingston Hyper X @ 2-2-2-5
Radeon 9700 non-pro w/ CAT 4.2
Audigy 2 ZS
XP Pro

Anyone have any ideas??

No slowdown at all here, never see it lower than 30fps

 

[Saulbadguy]

Is there anyway to stop the server browser from updating everytime you go back? Or to stop it in the middle?

 

[SherEPunjab]

played like 3 hours yesterday. this game is sweet.

i only care for online gaming, so i'll probably just continue to play the demo, thats what I did for utk2003, and had plenty of fun.

but the vehicles and what not are awesome.

 

[roncarter]

is there an anandtech server out there???this game rocks!

 

[DeviousTrap]

Originally posted by: roncarter
is there an anandtech server out there???this game rocks!

There will be one tonight, hopefully ... See this thread

 

[element]

Originally posted by: Tetsuo

Originally posted by: thatsright
Getting SUPER Slowdown's in Assault & Onslaught??

In Assault I get about 20-30's FPS and in Convoy I got in the teens!!! THIS SUPER-BLOWS folks. At first I thought it was something wrong with my PC, but not the case. So I lowered the AA & AF settings in the Catalyst control panel to 2X, and nothing changed, still crappy performance, before I had it at 4X/8X.

So then I changed the game rez from 1280X1024 to 1024X768 and the FPS rate stayed the SAME!!!!

What's the Deal Epic/Atari?? I hope this is just due to it being a Beta Demo?

Here's what I got

P4 3.0c
ABIT IC7 w/ 800Mhz FSB
1GB PC3500 Kingston Hyper X @ 2-2-2-5
Radeon 9700 non-pro w/ CAT 4.2
Audigy 2 ZS
XP Pro

Anyone have any ideas??

No slowdown at all here, never see it lower than 30fps

No problems here either. I guess I don't need to ask if you're running the latest drivers, just a thought. But I doubt it's the demo itself that's the problem. I'm only running an Athlon 2400+ (2.0 Ghz) 1gig of RAM and a geforce 4 4200. nothing overclocked, and it's as smooth as butter.

 

[DerwenArtos12]

Can I get a link to any cheats that are known to be working on 2k4?

 

[ShyguyMX6]

same cheats as UT2003:

Some of the basics:
Hit the ~ key & enter the cheat, then hit enter & esc or ~ again to get rid of console,

God = God Mode

Loaded = All weapons

AllAmmo = 999 ammo for all weappons (except redeemer, for some reason that doesn't work anymore)

Ghost = Noclip mode

Walk = deactivates Ghost

Stat Fps = framerate toggle



I know these work because they were the first things I tried when i got the game to finally run.

 

[ethebubbeth]

hehehe beautiful game.... if only my desktop were working right now... the laptop just doesn't cut it for this >_<)!

I still think the original UT is the best gameplay wise for deathmatch, capture the flag, etcetera. Onslaught is dang fun though.

 

[littlegoku]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
That is all, enjoy.

Links: Nvidia, AdVault, FileShack, FileFront, WorthPlaying, BitTorrent, FilePlanet, 3DGamers, ActionTrip

the nvidia server is giving me dl speed at 800k/s
nice:beer: