Not sure if this one's a bug or just me either, so I'm making another thread. When I play BW on any of my computers, I get occasional but steady lags offline. I tinkered with graphics settings but they don't seem to be the problem. Here are specs for my laptop and desktop:
laptop: amd turion x2 1.6ghz, 1gb ram, geforce go 6100, windows xp sp2
desktop: dual core 1.8ghz, 2gb ram, radeon x1500, windows vista

Does anyone have this problem?

i belive its with the bw software it may lie in its code it may load slowly which cuases lag offline and i had the same problem before for some reasons i noticed certian weapons and weapon fx in bw load slow like pulling out a g5 may cuase ur game to lag for 1 second or its detonation may do the same

But it happens even without huge explosions, flame, etc.

http://www.tweakguides.com/UT2004_1.html


Try this..May help.

1 GB memory might be the problem. Although it's more than enough for the game, BW does add many extra gameplay & graphical features.

But what about my desktop? It's got 2gb...

Oh, wait. Vista might be the problem...

Although Vista uses more memory by average, it runs (recent) games just as good or even better than in XP. But UT2? I don't know, to be honest. I've heard lag related problems when using the Geforce 8000 series of GPUs, but never Vista-related lags.

It's more than just a coincidence that the game lags on two vastly different computers. Out of curiosity, how big is your UT2004.log after a normal gameplay session?

I have noticed exceptional amounts of warnings/error type messages in my log lately when running ballistic.

here are the two most repedative messages...

Log: Skeleton_Alien Attachment not found for bone spine(shoulder head ect.) to Attach BG_StumpAlien
This one sucks up over half the log!

ScriptLog: Couldn't spawn player 'S}{^I){}W' of type BallisticV21.BallisticPawn at DM-Inferno.PlayerStart1
I hate this bug

The nature of the bug will determine if it causes a lag or not. Of course there is the performance decrease when the game writes to the log file, but it shouldn't have a noticable impact on fast computers.

For example I got an AI error because a weapon I selected for an Arena match wasn't working, so every time a bot wanted to shoot me it would make a log entry. I had a 120 MB file after 5 minutes of gameplay, but I didn't notice lag.

Anyway, I think DC should look into this. When one error/warning appears in a log file, it is one too many. :-/

Those are map errors.

No need to worry.

Believe me... On a lower preformence/Vista run computer like mine,this is not something to so,non-chalantly ignore.

Then dump that map.

Dump DM-Inferno?

this happens on any map,as for the ballistic conflict one, well any map while playing conflict.The map doesn't matter.

More complete list:
laptop: never formatted, ut2004 dvd(mega pack installed separately), 20+ muts&mods installed
desktop: reformatted, u anthology, only bw and rpg installed

I just realized I deleted ut2004 on laptop. And desktop doesn't have internet connection. I'll tell you about the log file on the desktop when I'm not tired.

Hehe
If thats true i've lost my war...

Alrighty, stop being tired then.