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How to install Unreal GOTY99 on Windows 10? "Precaching" showing

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How to install Unreal GOTY99 on Windows 10? "Precaching" showing

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May I request instructions on how to install Unreal GOTY '99 on Windows 10? I just bought on Steam, not having much luck in windows 10. Basically the game starts with a black background, then I see blue "precaching" and nothing else happens. I hear the background music, but no graphics. I tried all changing the graphics types from D3D to openGL, software, none will work. The only way I can get it to work is when I relaunch it, it gives the error that it did not run properly and give the open to run in safe mode. That actually will load and run, but is windowed and I can only get a max of 800X600 resolution. I thought that safe mode basically runs the software rendering so I dont' know why it wont run at least in software rendering. Can someone help me out?

After I download from steam what other installtion steps, patches, etc do I need to follow?
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Re: How to install Unreal GOTY99 on Windows 10? "Precaching" showing

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http://www.oldunreal.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/ ... 1453909937
requires a pretty modern graphics card tho
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Re: How to install Unreal GOTY99 on Windows 10? "Precaching" showing

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For UnrealTournament there are some renderer updates for (old) OpenGL/D3D9 and the new one Dustin mentioned.
When installed over Steam there should be no need to install any other patches.

You can download them here: http://www.oldunreal.com/utpatches.html

In case you mean classic Unreal, there is the 227 patch, including all these things and more, also in the download section.
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Re: How to install Unreal GOTY99 on Windows 10? "Precaching" showing

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Dosgamer

You confuse Unreal and UnrealTournament

For UnrealTournament aka UT UT99 UTGOTY read your post to http://forums.ut-files.com/ i explain you how easy install UT99
Just one exe and UT run on your windows 10 ... just change your name player   ::)
Last edited by medor on Sat Jan 07, 2017 9:50 am, edited 1 time in total.
UTfiles http://medor.no-ip.org/
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Re: How to install Unreal GOTY99 on Windows 10? "Precaching" showing

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Looks like it's related to something that safe mode disables (audio drivers maybe?). Try unchecking stuff one by one in the safe mode options until it stops working.

You can run unreal with -safe to get the recovery menu.
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