Why doesn't unreal tourney have compressed textures?

[Aihyah]

I was just wondering, since they've patched it dozens of times it seems. I've played it with my geforce ddr, and my radeon, both have framerate problems at max texture levels.. very annoying since q3a gets away with nice textures through compression. whats going on? old game engine doesn't like compression?

 

[andri]

UT only knows S3TC (not DXTC), and the compressed high-quality textures are on the second UT CD.

 

[Aihyah]

Yea i know meaning they have some support for it, why they didn't port that over to direct x in one of their many many patches.. i dunno.. do they have something against increasing performance on non s3 cards? I mean wtf is with that

 

[BFG10K]

There are new Direct 3D and OpenGL renderers available from Epic's webpage which support S3TC and correctly work with the second CD.

 

[Aihyah]

woah kewl, guess i'll look for it. u'd think they'd make a bigger fuss about this stuff.

 

[Aihyah]

bfg10k,


I can't seem to find these on the website. Could you please tell me where they are?

 

[Aihyah]

oh by the way, do you know the command for checking fps in unreal?

 

[Aihyah]

ah n/m about the compressed textures thing, found the real unreal page in the forums. http://unreal.epicgames.com/

 

[NotoriousJTC]

To find the Timedemo go: gamescreen--->Tools--->timedemo

 

[Aihyah]

yea, eventually figured it out, downloaded utbench for the demo. actually u have to use the console and type demoplay utbench. not just timedemo from menu