Unreal Tweaking

Do you find that your Unreal Tournament is running sluggish and its really getting on your nerves. Follow my Tournament Tweak Guide and you will be on your way to a smoother play. These tweaks will still work with Unreal 1 as well as with Tournament, although some options will be unavailable.

Firstly the advanced options menu was cut out from our reach after version 328 (I think), you can still get to it by bringing up the mini console (by pressing TAB) and typing preferences.

This guide may look a little complicated but rest assure you can fiddle with most options then press the "reset to defaults" button and everything will be as your started.

Note, I haven't got a Direct 3D tweak guide yet as I have never used it, (I use 3DFX glide) but expect it soon. I have used software rendering (long time ago) and was desperate for speed so I had to make a good tweak guide here. The same goes for OpenGL, but this is a simple job.

Internet and Network Optimization tips will be here soon

Audio Options

-Audio

   | - Set EffectsChannels to 8 instead of 16 Amount of sounds played at once

   | - Set LowSoundQuality to True Lower sound quality, less memory and CPU usage

   | - Set OutputRate to 11025hz Lower sound quality output rate, low CPU usage

   | - Set Use3DHardware False No 3D position Audio (Aureal 3D) this eats the CPU

   | - Set UseFilter to False

   | - Set UseReverb to False Echo effects, lower CPU usage.

   | - Set UseSpatial to False

   | - Set UseStereo to False

   | - Set UseSurround to False

Display Options

-Display

   | - set CurvedSurfaces to False Something to do with meshes.

   | - set LowDetailTextures to True Lower texture, lowers memory and CPU usage.

   | - set ScreenFlashes to False When shot the screen flashes, this could upset lower end computer with the CPU usage it takes.

For those of you with a 3DFX voodoo card, go to rendering and then glide support.

3DFX Glide Support

For those of you using a software rendering (non-3D driver)

Software Rendering Support

-Audio
\| - Set EffectsChannels to 8 instead of 16	Amount of sounds played at once
\| - Set LowSoundQuality to True	Lower sound quality, less memory and CPU usage
\| - Set OutputRate to 11025hz	Lower sound quality output rate, low CPU usage
\| - Set Use3DHardware False	No 3D position Audio (Aureal 3D) this eats the CPU
\| - Set UseFilter to False
\| - Set UseReverb to False	Echo effects, lower CPU usage.
\| - Set UseSpatial to False
\| - Set UseStereo to False
\| - Set UseSurround to False

-Display
\| - set CurvedSurfaces to False	Something to do with meshes.
\| - set LowDetailTextures to True	Lower texture, lowers memory and CPU usage.
\| - set ScreenFlashes to False	When shot the screen flashes, this could upset lower end computer with the CPU usage it takes.