As some of you may know, i now have source access to the Unreal sources. It took some weeks to make the old sources to compile with a new vc  studio, but now it works. Found no  new bugs in it yet in the version i have, which i'm gonna call 226z for now.

Current status is:
Updates in:
OpenGL
FMod and ALAudio, both included
Direct3D8 which can be compared with current OpenGL release (thanx Chris!)

Fixed 226 can't connect to password protected servers anymore.

To make more fixes, i need a complete buglist of all bugs known in 226.

NOT ANOTHER 227!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have seen many "patches" over the years that claimed to be "227", some of the authors even claimed to have had access to the source but all of them never got released. I shall refuse to believe in this until I see proof.

Either you are
A. Lying,
B. Rich
C. A very good negotiator
or D. a h4x0r

If this claim is true I hope to see some proof soon.

Btw this extremist additude is due to my exposure to several "227"s over the years from various authors.

Bug report: Incompatibility with Unreal 226f and Unreal Gold crashes clients: When Unreal Gold connects to a server running 226f and vice versa, the client crashes after connecting with an "assertion failed" error.

Update: Error msg and log:

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Critical Error
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Assertion failed: ActorClass [File:C:\Build\UnrealGold\Engine\Src\UnChan.cpp] [Line: 691]



History: InitialClientActor <- UActorChannel::ReceivedBunch <- (Actor None) <- UChannel::ReceivedSequencedBunch <- Direct <- UChannel::ReceivedRawBunch <- DispatchDataToChannel <- BunchData <- UNetConnection::ReceivedPacket <- UNetConnection::ReceivedRawPacket <- UTcpNetDriver::TickDispatch <- UpdatePreNet <- ULevel::Tick <- (NetMode=3) <- TickLevel <- UGameEngine::Tick <- UpdateWorld <- MainLoop
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OK   
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[quote]
Log: Bringing Level DmDeck16.MyLevel up for play (109)...
Log: Spawning new actor for Viewport WindowsViewport0
ScriptLog: Team 255
ScriptLog: Login: Hyper.nl
Log: Possessed PlayerPawn: MaleThree Entry.MaleThree1
ScriptLog: All inventory from Hyper.nl is accepted
Init: Initialized moving brush tracker for Level DmDeck16.MyLevel
Critical: appError called:
Critical: Assertion failed: ActorClass [File:C:\Build\UnrealGold\Engine\Src\UnChan.cpp] [Line: 691]
Critical: Windows GetLastError: De bewerking is voltooid. (0)
Exit: Executing UObject::StaticShutdownAfterError
Exit: UALAudioSubsystem::ShutdownAfterError
Exit: Executing UWindowsClient::ShutdownAfterError
Log: DirectDraw End Mode
Exit: UOpenGLRenderDevice::ShutdownAfterError
Critical: InitialClientActor
Critical: UActorChannel::ReceivedBunch
Critical: (Actor None)
Critical: UChannel::ReceivedSequencedBunch
Critical: Direct
Critical: UChannel::ReceivedRawBunch
Critical: DispatchDataToChannel
Critical: BunchData
Critical: UNetConnection::ReceivedPacket
Critical: UNetConnection::ReceivedRawPacket
Critical: UTcpNetDriver::TickDispatch
Critical: UpdatePreNet
Critical: ULevel::Tick
Critical: (NetMode=3)
Critical: TickLevel
Critical: UGameEngine::Tick
Critical: UpdateWorld
Critical: MainLoop
Exit: appExit
Uninitialized: Name subsystem shut down
Uninitialized: Log file closed, 08/26/05 16:00:46
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Why not just post one big post instead of lots of small ones?

The nature of your posting could be regarded as spam (usually to increase post count).

There is an Edit/Modify button that is useful.

Emperor I can assure you this is legit (you should know that I'm always one of the first people to slam down on others false claims of '227' patches )

Smirftsch has been granted source code access by UTPG (I've seen the mails and have had plenty of UTPG contact myself) and I've helped out a bit with fixing some of the bugs encountered sofar. (I do not have access myself however, I have helped out by examining error messages/snippets)


This is the real deal.


There is a bug where the actor channel can receive malformed packets of some kind which causes a lot of people to crash, I can't confirm if this has been fixed in 226 however.

Bug: "New actor channel received non-open packet: 0/0/0" client crash

While playing online the client crashes with this error log:

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Critical: appError called:
Critical: New actor channel received non-open packet: 0/0/0
Critical: Windows GetLastError: De bewerking is voltooid. (0)
Exit: Executing UObject::StaticShutdownAfterError
Exit: UALAudioSubsystem::ShutdownAfterError
Exit: Executing UWindowsClient::ShutdownAfterError
Log: DirectDraw End Mode
Exit: UOpenGLRenderDevice::ShutdownAfterError
Critical: InitialClientActor
Critical: UActorChannel::ReceivedBunch
Critical: (Actor None)
Critical: UChannel::ReceivedSequencedBunch
Critical: Direct
Critical: UChannel::ReceivedRawBunch
Critical: DispatchDataToChannel
Critical: BunchData
Critical: UNetConnection::ReceivedPacket
Critical: UNetConnection::ReceivedRawPacket
Critical: UTcpNetDriver::TickDispatch
Critical: UpdatePreNet
Critical: ULevel::Tick
Critical: (NetMode=3)
Critical: TickLevel
Critical: UGameEngine::Tick
Critical: UpdateWorld
Critical: MainLoop
Exit: appExit
Uninitialized: Name subsystem shut down
Uninitialized: Log file closed, 08/26/05 00:35:52
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amazing news, i never thought this would happen, finally we could see unreal as its supposed to be

i hope this patch is for both 226f and gold, and i also hope it will fix the compatibility issues between those two, also is this patch compatible with older versions of the game?

i think the problems i would love to see solved the most are the multiplayer issues, mainly the broken security in unreal, exploits allowing all kinds of attacks.
maybe zora can help you with that, afaik she knows alot about the bugs and exploits in unreal and she has also done alot of work on fixing those with nepthys and other tools.

i would also like to see many of the pawn bugs fixed, mainly the collision hash bug and another mysterious bug that causes pawns in multiplayer to crash the server.

in my experience singleplayer is very stable, i've almost never encountered a crash, but what i do like to see fixed too is the broken musicevent actor, where if you load a saved game or reconnect to a server the music stops playing instead of continueing (afaik zora had it fixed on her maps and oldskool also uses a fix).

for the patch, if it will be for ugold- i'm not sure if i can make them compatible, hope so, but i don't have access to ugold sources, its a different branch of unreal....

I have tried to aquire the source code many times from Epic, and got shot down everytime...as I'm sure many of the ones who tried, have. I did however, get it out of the vice president of Epic just recently, that they're considering Unreal and Unreal Gold as "Abandonware". (This still does not mean its legal to distribute though.) - Smirftsch, you cannot begin to imagine how happy this makes me.

I have e-mailed them once a week, for the last three/four years. My entire intent on getting it was to release it to the community for development. Even though I didn't get the source, and it wasn't aquired how I hoped it would be, now I feel my attempts weren't completely worthless

Here's the last thing Mark Rein sent to me, and it will now be the last. (Notice how he 'speaks so highly' of this game.)

Quote:

Turboman, i really agree with you, but the question is not if i want to make it for UGold but to be able to.

I have full access to everything, and as long i don't give the sources to someone or want to use it commercial i'm allowed whatever i want - so adding new features is possible, and i really want to add some things, like decals, footstepsounds, maybe shadows one day. But for the moment the most important thing is to make a bugfree - or at least less buggy version of Unreal.

Redemption, thanx, it took me very long time to get it, and i think i had a lot of luck to get contact to the right people...

Pitbull, the UTPG team is having access to these sources as well, but they lack of time to do it. They did work a lot on UT and people don't imagine how much work it must have been they have done already, i'm sure they would have made 227 if they would have had a chance to realize it.