A regular player on the server struggles with "white out" in a gun fight using the minigun and RL. I have suggested these settings that control the "effects" of the weapons, some of these are on similar lines to the enhanced UT posts on the forum.
Here are the settings for the minigun and RL add these as an alias:
Aliases[??]=(Command="set ut_shellcase bhidden 1 | set mtracer lighttype lt_none | set minigun2 muzzleflashmesh none  | set LightSmokeTrail bHidden 1 | set UT_SpriteSmokePuff bHidden 1 | set UTSmokeTrail bHidden 1 | set rockettrail bhidden 1 | set RocketMk2 DrawScale 0.03",Alias=whatevername)
Bind "whatevername" to a key.
or
create a config "whatevername" and use the exec command.
Long time since i did this stuff, hope this helps

Hi 5L3V1N.  Works great! I can see so much better during fights now. Thanks!

5L3V1N wrote on Oct 27^th, 2012 at 5:07pm:

Won't some cheat protection consider some of those settings illegal ? All I have is weapon hand hidden and unticked weapon flash in preferences, and just live with the rockets and smoke. Some may consider those settings pertaining to rocket smoke and size of rockets an unfair advantage but I'm not sure.

Depends on the server, respect server rules foremost.

there has been much debate what can actually be added to the alias and what is regarded as "tweaks" or an unfair advantage? Generally speaking, some snipers servers and pure plus a-another servers use anti-cheat detection for example to stop the turning off the muzzle flash and smoke from a sniper rifle etc. restrictions can be added to the anti-cheat.
There was a debate years ago on a skin mod (i will not be naming it - don't ask) which some said was legal and some not. Some servers would boot or ban players using it, others wouldnt, its how it worked.

Hacks and aimbots are the by far the biggest problem in UT, unfortunately a few players get satisfaction this way and spoil it for the real players. The listed above will help you vision a bit but skill is skill.

As far as kosher, or being ok on the server, I consider it ok. If these settings are allowed out of the box, then ok. I won't try them myself because I think it takes away from the experience.

There is one thing I turn off which is screen flash, I think everyone already knows about this, but anyways...

• bring up console window
• type in "preferences" without the quotes
• expand Display
• set ScreenFlashes to false

This is permanent, you don't have to change it every game.

I use the minigun set commands, simply when strafing or in a firefight i get bright flash, a screen full obscuring everything to the extent i cant see. I dont get it half as bad with the original d3d7 but the game runs bad..........
These commands and others have always been a bone of contention since Gl quake 1 when they came about. Its difficult where to draw the line, a 54inch monitor is an advantage, a mouse with a polling rate faster than windows default is an advantage, as long as the above is ok with you Helen?

Rocket Trails. This mainly stems back to GL quake on 4mb Orchid Righteous 3dfx card. Only 2mb of that was texture memory. PC's were only p60\100\133\166mhz, the first 2 didn't even have mmx. With the new effects with this accelerator GL the screen quickly filled up with effects in rocket fights blocking view and on alot of machines fell into slideshow mode. Many ppl have experimented down the years with settings like these. In 2k4 "set commands" can not be used online.

5L3V1N !

I'm impressed! You a voodoo fan? Still have any of the old voodoo cards?

My prized 3dfx possession Voodoo5 6000. I also have a bunch of voodoo2 cards including a couple Quantum Obsidian X24 cards, basically 2 voodoo2 cards in one for sli.

Is there such a thing as a Non-Riva TNT2 Ultra? HOOK, what does your say it is under Device Manager? StivBators, what does your voodoo say it is in the device manager?