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djdawson · 2003-12-16 1:48 am

I've come across a little tip that has helped me run maps that crash UT2K3. If you look in the UT2003.log file in your Library/Application Support/Unreal Tournament 2003/System folder after a crash, sometimes you'll see an error message about not being able to open some music file (they end in ".ogg"). For whatever reason, it seems like sometimes the music file doesn't download with a map. When you try to play that map, the game will crash. One simple fix is to note the name of the music file the game was looking for, then copy one of your existing music files to that name. You probably won't have the music the map designer intended, but the map will now work. If you have something like VLC that plays .ogg files you can preview your existing music files and pick one that seems to fit the map.

If used this method two or three times in the past few days to fix broken maps. One was "EchoChamber" and the another one was a map I saw Brain on just this evening (I don't remember its name). When I got back into that map I didn't see you there, Brain, so I thought I'd pass this tip along. This hasn't fixed the problem with the Betrayal map, so there's some other problem with that map, but sometimes it's just the ticket.

HTH

brainiac_7 · 2003-12-16 5:36 am

Great idea, ofsg. You're correct. I would never just log out without saying good bye to you; I'd crashed and had hit my limit for 2k3 crashes that day. I'd also found there's no point in trying to log back on until after the map is finished.

I believe the map had the word "Garden" in it. Earthly Delights, Eden, I can't remember the rest. Anyway, I'm starting to feel like I'm playing, and paid for, a beta.

There may be other files that fail to get sent:
Warning: LinkBeamEffect DOM-MayanRuins.LinkBeamEffect (Function XWeapons.LinkBeamEffect.Tick:04BC) Accessed None

I've got about a gazillion entries for this error. I wonder if that's an animation or such?

edit: nope. I d/l-ed the map again, and MayanRuins contains only a .ut2 file.

LLEVIATHANN · 2003-12-16 10:03 am

I get that feeling to Brain. That UT2K3 was a huge beta test and 2K4 will be the final version.

Good tip OSFG! I will add that one and Doc's .uz2 info. I hope to have a dedicated hint and tip thread once we get our own forums. If that will happen.

Daniel · 2003-12-16 3:28 pm

Just an FYI about the music: Cachophony (Cacophony? -- look on VersionTracker) is a shareware OS X sound editor and can open and export them, if you wanted to, say, listen to the menu music in your car on the way to work.

Pur · 2003-12-16 4:03 pm

My ut2k3 crash when i try to lunch CTF-CBM-Betrayal... this is the log

Betrayal?Game=XGame.xCTFGame?Difficulty=4?bAutoNumBots=False?NumBots=11?
GameSpeed=1.00?WeaponStay=True?Translocator=True?FriendlyFireScale=0.00?
GoalScore=3?TimeLimit=15?MaxLives=0?AllowThrowing=True?Name=Pur?Class=Engine.Pawn?
Character=Frostbite?team=1
Log: LoadMap: CTF-CBP-Betrayal?Game=XGame.xCTFGame?Difficulty=4?bAutoNumBots=False?NumBots=11?
GameSpeed=1.00?WeaponStay=True?Translocator=True?FriendlyFireScale=0.00?
GoalScore=3?TimeLimit=15?MaxLives=0?AllowThrowing=True?Name=Pur?Class=Engine.Pawn?
Character=Frostbite?team=1
Warning: CTF-CBP-Betrayal.Kraaa1 is not a WAVE file?
Log: (Karma): Initialising Karma for Level.
Log: Static mesh batches: 6032988 vertex bytes, 759912 index bytes
Log: ProcMesh 0 shared verts.
Warning: P8 Weightmap integrated into forces!
Log: pData->links count: 234
Log: ProcMesh 0 shared verts.
Warning: P8 Weightmap integrated into forces!
Log: pData->links count: 234
Log: ProcMesh 0 shared verts.
Warning: P8 Weightmap integrated into forces!
Log: pData->links count: 234
Log: ProcMesh 0 shared verts.
Warning: P8 Weightmap integrated into forces!
Log: pData->links count: 234
Log: ProcMesh 0 shared verts.
Warning: P8 Weightmap integrated into forces!
Log: pData->links count: 234
Log: ProcMesh 0 shared verts.
Warning: P8 Weightmap integrated into forces!
Log: pData->links count: 234
Log: ProcMesh 0 shared verts.
Warning: P8 Weightmap integrated into forces!
Log: pData->links count: 234
Log: ProcMesh 0 shared verts.
Warning: P8 Weightmap integrated into forces!
Log: pData->links count: 234
Log: ProcMesh 0 shared verts.
Warning: P8 Weightmap integrated into forces!
Log: pData->links count: 234
Log: ProcMesh 0 shared verts.
Warning: P8 Weightmap integrated into forces!
Log: pData->links count: 234
Log: ProcMesh 0 shared verts.
Warning: P8 Weightmap integrated into forces!
Log: pData->links count: 234
Log: ProcMesh 0 shared verts.
Warning: P8 Weightmap integrated into forces!
Log: pData->links count: 234
Log: Collecting garbage
Log: Purging garbage
Log: (Karma): Terminating Karma for Level.
Log: (Karma): Level Karma Terminated.
Log: 16779587443.9ms Unloading: Package Egypt_techmeshes_Epic
Log: 16779587444.8ms Unloading: Package BarrenHardware
Log: 16779587446.0ms Unloading: Package BarrensHardwareBrush
Log: 16779587446.3ms Unloading: Package BarrenHardware-epic
Log: 16779587447.2ms Unloading: Package AWStellarMeshes
Log: 16779587447.3ms Unloading: Package AWCity
Log: 16779587527.1ms Unloading: Package wm_sounds
Log: 16779587527.4ms Unloading: Package Face3_decomeshes
Log: 16779587527.5ms Unloading: Package AbaddonHardwareBrush
Log: 16779587531.3ms Unloading: Package AbaddonHardware
Log: 16779587533.7ms Unloading: Package cf_sm02
Log: 16779587535.2ms Unloading: Package ArboreaLanscape
Log: 16779587535.5ms Unloading: Package wm_meshes
Log: 16779587536.3ms Unloading: Package Skies
Log: 16779587536.8ms Unloading: Package jwDecemberArchitecture
Log: 16779587537.7ms Unloading: Package CheckerFX
Log: 16779587539.4ms Unloading: Package AnubisTextures
Log: 16779587540.1ms Unloading: Package AnubisStatic
Log: 16779587540.5ms Unloading: Package BarrensArchitecture-Scion
Log: 16779587543.0ms Unloading: Package BP_egyptnew
Log: 16779587543.5ms Unloading: Package CTF-Avaris
Log: 16779587653.7ms Unloading: Package AnnouncerEvil
Log: 16779587655.5ms Unloading: Package BeastA
Log: 16779587668.0ms Unloading: Package Aliens
Log: 16779587685.4ms Unloading: Package AngelInterceptor
Log: 16779587717.2ms Unloading: Package HumanMaleA
Log: 16779587726.7ms Unloading: Package BR-Dune
Log: 16779587729.9ms Unloading: Package CitadelTextures
Log: 16779587732.5ms Unloading: Package skyline-epic
Log: 16779587734.1ms Unloading: Package Citadel_Static
Log: 16779587734.2ms Unloading: Package AWHardware
Log: 16779587734.3ms Unloading: Package AlienTech
Log: 16779587734.3ms Unloading: Package ArboreaHardwareBrush
Log: 16779587734.8ms Unloading: Package BulldogMeshes
Log: 16779587734.9ms Unloading: Package VehicleFX
Log: 16779587734.9ms Unloading: Package ShiptechHardware
Log: Garbage: objects: 34526->26516; refs: 318916
Warning: CTF-CBP-Betrayal.Kraaa1 is not a WAVE file?
Log: Game class is 'xCTFGame'
Log: Level is Level CTF-CBP-Betrayal.myLevel
Log: Bringing Level CTF-CBP-Betrayal.myLevel up for play (0) appSeconds: 16779589.555882...
ScriptLog: Difficulty 4
ScriptLog: GameSpeed 1.00
ScriptLog: Base Mutator is CTF-CBP-Betrayal.DMMutator
ScriptLog: GameInfo::InitGame : bEnableStatLogging False
ScriptLog: MaxLives 0
ScriptLog: GoalScore 3
ScriptLog: TimeLimit 15
ScriptLog: Translocators: True
ScriptLog: bAutoNumBots: False
ScriptLog: NumBots 11
ScriptLog: WeaponStay: True
ScriptLog: TeamGame::InitGame : bBalanceTeams True
ScriptLog: Team AI is CTF-CBP-Betrayal.CTFTeamAI
ScriptLog: Team AI is CTF-CBP-Betrayal.CTFTeamAI
Log: 9 ANTIPORTALS
Log: Spawning new actor for Viewport SDLViewport
ScriptLog: Team 1
ScriptLog: Login: Pur
Warning: Failed to load 'Sound AnnouncerEvil.uax.Speed': Failed to find object 'Sound AnnouncerEvil.uax.Speed'
Warning: Failed to load 'Sound AnnouncerEvil.uax.Play': Failed to find object 'Sound AnnouncerEvil.uax.Play'
Warning: Failed to load 'Sound AnnouncerEvil.uax.Red_Team_takes_the_lead':
Failed to find object 'Sound AnnouncerEvil.uax.Red_Team_takes_the_lead'
Warning: Failed to load 'Sound AnnouncerEvil.uax.MegaKill':
Failed to find object 'Sound AnnouncerEvil.uax.MegaKill'
Warning: Failed to load 'Sound AnnouncerEvil.uax.LudicrousKill_F':
Failed to find object 'Sound AnnouncerEvil.uax.LudicrousKill_F'
Warning: Failed to load 'Sound AnnouncerEvil.uax.NewRoundIn':
Failed to find object 'Sound AnnouncerEvil.uax.NewRoundIn'
Warning: Failed to load 'Sound AnnouncerEvil.uax.Narrowly_Averted': Failed to find object 'Sound AnnouncerEvil.uax.Narrowly_Averted'
Warning: Failed to load 'Sound AnnouncerEvil.uax.3_minutes_remain': Failed to find object 'Sound AnnouncerEvil.uax.3_minutes_remain'
Log: xPlayer got player SDLViewport
ScriptLog: New Player Pur id= 3f0ac8db42ea2c06b2b6308c20a54fe0
Warning: CTF-CBP-Betrayal.Kraaa1 is not a WAVE file?
Log: Precaching: CTF-CBP-Betrayal.LevelInfo0
Log: Allocating 32768 byte dynamic index buffer.
Log: Preprocessing: Vertex stream total vertices: 542 Orig wedges: 542
Log: Allocating 65536 byte dynamic vertex buffer.
Log: Allocating 384000 byte dynamic vertex buffer.
Log: Allocating 768000 byte dynamic vertex buffer.
Log: Finished precaching geometry in 10.504 seconds
Log: Finished precaching textures in 8.364 seconds
Exit: Exiting.
Uninitialized: Name subsystem shut down
Uninitialized: Allocation checking disabled
Uninitialized: Log file closed, Tue Dec 16 22:47:57 2003

Someone can help me?

LLEVIATHANN · 2003-12-16 4:37 pm

Betrayal crashes all the Macs. We think is has to do with the way the map was textured.

brainiac_7 · 2003-12-16 6:06 pm

eel like I'm playing, and paid for, a beta.

I get that feeling to Brain.

Wow, so the stability issues are similar on the PC? That's not good.

DoctorB · 2003-12-16 10:04 pm

The biggest problem for me is crashes with online play. Also getting disconnected from the server. I actually got Betrayal to load and play for several min. online before it once again crashed.

The only thing that I can suggest is keep those crash logs flowing to MacSoft. roll After all that's what good beta testers are supposed to do.

Loup Garou · 2003-12-16 11:11 pm

eel like I'm playing, and paid for, a beta.
I get that feeling to Brain.
Wow, so the stability issues are similar on the PC? That's not good.

Don't know about LLevi, but my UT2K3 is very stable on the PC. confused Also, Betrayal runs fine on my 'puter smile

Xaeroflex · 2003-12-16 11:30 pm

Just an FYI about the music: Cachophony (Cacophony? -- look on VersionTracker) is a shareware OS X sound editor and can open and export them, if you wanted to, say, listen to the menu music in your car on the way to work.

Level13 rocked.

brainiac_7 · 2003-12-17 5:22 am

I'm getting pretty fond of KR-Chemical-Burn.ogg, but it's too short. It reminds me of the first Unreal when the space station goes dark and you've got a lot of Skaaj to remove.

I can't find Cacophony on VT. I've been listening to them with VLC.

Pur · 2003-12-17 6:33 am

I'm agree to segnalate the crash of Betrayal to MacSoft... (if this really happen on every Mac)..

BR-BotanicalGarden and BR-Sandrock also crash on my mac... some help?

LLEVIATHANN · 2003-12-17 9:17 am

Brain: No UT2K3 has never crashed, but it just doesn't feel very polished. If you know what I mean. I have had problems tho. I have trouble with DM-Aristocracy online. Seems that I always join as a ghost player on that map. Ping vs Stat net are way off. There was a huge lesson in frustration trying to get UT2K3 to run as a server on a laptop with XP pro as the OS. I ended up formatting and installing Win2KPro. This happened on two machines. Another problem was UT2K3 keeping my KB settings. I had to edit my user.ini in order to get them to stay. It was like after every third launch they would be back to default.

Mac Peeps: Somethings to try on crashing maps. One would to reset all your options to low (ugly), use a lower res and try to run the map. See if it's the graphics card that is hanging you up. Another thing is to try software mode. I know they're not very good solutions, but atleast it would narrow down the problem. Another thing is to try them in instant action. Does the map play off line, but not online. (this is the problem I have with DM_Aristocracy).

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