D3D.dll From Unreal Gold!

[Stubby]

Hi!! I read somewhere that if you replace the D3D.dll that came with the 226f patch with the one from Unreal Gold the performance and graphics would improve, is that true? If so, where can I find that D3D.dll from Gold? I did find one link to it, but it was no good. Thanks!! I know, I could go buy Unreal Gold, but I already have Unreal, UT, and RtNP (stand alone version). Okay, while I have a captive audience, I do have one more question;D Everyone I've talked too seems to think that OpenGL is the way to go with Unreal and UT, but I'm having a heck of a time with it!! I've d\l'ed the latest patches for both games and added the lines in the system directory and still my OGL looks like crap. For example, the mountains in the distance grow and shrink at will, which looks horrible. What did I do wrong? Thanks!!!!!!!!

[hund_schraube]

i was a voodoo chile and recently bought a g4 4400 ti.i couldnt understand how ut and unreal could look so bad.i found that if i ran opengl in 32 bit color it looked better and cleared up the artifacts you were talking about.i dont know what card you have but for nvidia i'd run opengl instead of d3d.

[Stubby]

Thanks for the reply hund_schraube! At present I am running a GeForce2 Ultra, and you made a point I haven't thought of; namely running UT in 32 bit instead of the 16 I've been running. I'm going to give that a try. Speaking of UT, have you tried 'Operation; NaPali' yet? The first time I played it was in D3D, now I'm going to try it in OpenGL. Thanks for the reply and have a GREAT day!!! (or evening, depending on where you are!!)