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Factory

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Registered: 2008-02-24

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Annoying White/black lines in Ut2k3

So I installed Ut2k3 (Unreal Tournament 2003) with the installer that came on the 3rd cd (not via wine). I get these weird lines displayed:

The loki updater is broken (doesn't seem like any of the mirrors they suggest work). I did download the patch manually, but copying over the files from the patch folder into the game folder didn't work. Anyone have any experience with this situation?

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Factory

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Re: Annoying White/black lines in Ut2k3

Alright, I read this: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=1277

I'm going to try to re-install, and then (somehow) update the game... although I'm not sure how I'm going to do that since none of the mirrors on the updater work.

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eljoeb

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Re: Annoying White/black lines in Ut2k3

I'm having a somewhat similar issue with 2k4... it's caused by the Nvidia drivers.  I had to revert back to an older driver to get rid of the funky striped lines and missing textures.  To me this wasn't worth the effort and I just play it on Windows.

Factory

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Re: Annoying White/black lines in Ut2k3

Ick. Well I'm not running Windows, so I'll submit a bug report to nvidia (somehow). Here's more goofy striped texture goodness:

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brebs

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Re: Annoying White/black lines in Ut2k3

See bug report howto and thread:

caused by DXT5 compression with the newer drivers. Apparently everything after 100. can't decode DXT5 correctly.

Last edited by brebs (2008-03-14 20:21:05)

Factory

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Re: Annoying White/black lines in Ut2k3

See bug report howto and thread:

caused by DXT5 compression with the newer drivers. Apparently everything after 100. can't decode DXT5 correctly.

Ah, thanks very much. I don't know how I didn't run across this thread on my own. Glad I'm not alone here. *crosses fingers for a bug fix soon*

Last edited by Factory (2008-03-15 17:35:53)

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Factory

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Re: Annoying White/black lines in Ut2k3

This can be marked as fixed with the nvidia-beta drivers that are in the AUR (173.08). Most excellent.

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Kane

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Re: Annoying White/black lines in Ut2k3

Yes ive had this problem with UT2004 and fixed it using the beta drivers in AUR like factory suggests