🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:14:39 -0700, "goPostal" <agutgopostal@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>
>"Folk" <Folk@folk.com.invalid> wrote in message 
>news:r4n4455l8fi2ecsa040msrhb3ih6kntv98@4ax.com...
>>
>> I came across a company that offers older games for sale and low and
>> behold they're offering UTGOTY.
>> http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/unreal_tournament_goty
>>
>> They claim they have it patched to 436 and is compatible with XP and
>> Vista.  What I'm wondering though is if they have addressed any of the
>> issues that plague UT99 on newer hardware such as gamespeed.  Any
>> thoughts?
>
>Certain problems can't be fixed externally. When UT installs its engine it 
>polls the processor for its running speed and builds all its timing in 
>relation to that figure. If you have speed stepping or power saving on and 
>your cpu speed is throttled in any way, you will experience the lag and 
>stutter. Without source access to the engine, you can't fix that (and I'm 
>not sure it could be anyway). The only recourse it to adjust how your 
>computer deals with the UT engine, or how it behaves itself. If they did fix 
>it to run right, I'm guessing they altered the exe to compensate for certain 
>things, but in doing that you might not be able to access a lot of the 
>anticheat protected servers that run an md5 check.
>
>Still I am interested, and probably will order one to see. 

They have support available, but you apparently can't access it unless you
have purchased a game.

I probably would order it too, but I'm still bummed out about how UT sucks
on my LCD monitor.  Maybe if I get that sorted out...