Unreal is 20 Years Old

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I absolutely loved that game. It was my first 3D accelerated game using a Matrox m3D. It blew me away. The water puddle in the first level. Then, walking outside. Holy shit, that was just mind blowing. It was excellent. Loved it.
 
Is Steam only giving an install option? No adding to library?
 
Pretty sure this is the first game (UT, not Unreal) I ever played online back in high school with my friend across our 56k dial-up connection; we constantly fought over who would host, or rather, who would dominate the other person because of the 500+ ms lag over 56k, hah

I got all of the UTs on Steam a while back on a sale.. might try to fire it up when I get home to see how many people are online because of this. Can you not get it up to 4K somehow?
 
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I love this game. I built a P2-233 (clocked at 300). I had a Riva 128 and a Creative Voodoo II in that one I believe. I think I had just gotten rid of my Pure 3D at the time. (and a Matrox M3D + Mistake combo) I played Q2 and Unreal pretty much nonstop on this system. We used to do some pretty heavy LAN matches on these two games.
 
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I played this on a Celeron 366 clocked at 550 with a Rage3D card. It crashed about 90% of the way through and wiped out all my saved games. I don't remember if I ever finished it. I have the CD laying around here somewhere...
 
trentchau said:
So many memories and spent money trying to make Unreal look better. It actually was amazing on my Voodoo Banshee (Or I lied to myself enough that it was).

Was rocking my PII-450 for this damn game.
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Worked pretty good on my Celeron 300a, over clocked to 464mhz, 4GB ram, and my overclocked original TNT card with 16MB ram. :D
 
nutzo said:
Worked pretty good on my Celeron 300a, over clocked to 464mhz, 4GB ram, and my overclocked original TNT card with 16MB ram. :D
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I upgraded that PII-233 I mentioned to an SL2W8 setup 450 shortly after with a TNT + Voodoo 2 followed by a Voodoo 3 3000. I think when UT-99 and Q3A came out I was running a Hercules GeForce 2 (blue card with blue cooler... Was a nice card...)
 
I'm wondering how fast it software renders on a modern cpu. Anyone try? How about on integrated graphics like on a Ryzen 2200G or Intel iris?
 
/dev/null said:
I'm wondering how fast it software renders on a modern cpu. Anyone try? How about on integrated graphics like on a Ryzen 2200G or Intel iris?
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THAT is a good question!!! I remember the software renderer for Quake 2 (tried it briefly before entering the world of acceleration) but I never actually tried the one for Unreal past letting the open screen play for a few minutes until I got into the setup after a fresh install. :D I'd love to try it, and crank all available settings up. If I have time, and remember, I'll try it tonight. I already own Unreal Gold, and it wouldn't take long to install.
 
If you have Unreal Gold and want to try a higher resolution, you can find the patches (unreal227i) on this Unreal fansite. https://www.oldunreal.com/oldunrealpatches.html

This patch will allow any resolution and really improves the visuals of Unreal. It allows for a more modern renderer (3D9 or OpenGL) instead of the old Direct3D renderer.
 
If I remember correctly, Unreal was the first game to use detail textures. I remember running up to the wall, and being very surprised when those patterns popped in. (it was either Unreal or UT, but think it was Unreal)
 
SnowBeast said:
I really wish they would do a redux. Put todays graphics on it.
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Agreed. It was a VERY atmospheric game. It gave you a real sense of isolation (Kinda like System Shock, but without an AI throwing insults at you every few minutes.) That, combined with the beautiful alien environments, made it very compelling. I'd love to experience it again with the kind of detail that it could have now. Provided it still had the same feel to it.
 
I still have my old Unreal Gold CD, as well as UT. It's been a while since I last opened, them, though. I don't know if they're still usable.
 
J3RK said:
THAT is a good question!!! I remember the software renderer for Quake 2 (tried it briefly before entering the world of acceleration) but I never actually tried the one for Unreal past letting the open screen play for a few minutes until I got into the setup after a fresh install. :D I'd love to try it, and crank all available settings up. If I have time, and remember, I'll try it tonight. I already own Unreal Gold, and it wouldn't take long to install.
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I may try this on a VM on my main machine. One core of an 8700k running Win98 with software rendering. There's potential.
 
Damn,...wish there was a way to get and play without Steam.

EDIT: Wait,....GOG has it? WOOT!
 
install from CD... I still got my cd.. and hell I remember my quake iii arena cd key... ughh so much useless stuff in my head...
 
Glad I saw this post. Grabbed it on Steam and boy do the memories come back. I wish UT2K4 was popular. I'd still play it with people if so.
 
Twenty years.... Man. Sometimes it feels like yesterday.

Time to fire up some Unreal tonight!
 
Unreal 2 wasn't as good, but it's often overlooked, and a bit underrated IMO. It had a few bone-head missions that I didn't like, but most of it was pretty good. Definitely worth a play.
 
Got the game....3 week later I got my first 3Dfx Voodoo card, installed, started Unreal....dropped my jaw...and restarted the game from start.
Might as well add it to Steam...good memories ^^
 
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