Unreal Tournament 3 “Precaching” issue
For the longest time, I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with my Unreal Tournament 3 setup. Every time I entered a game of any type, the loading screen wouldn’t appear. Instead, it would say “Precaching” in red with a black background. I figured out the reason why it was doing this is because I had the “-nomoviestartup” command line option set. “-nomoviestartup” eliminates movies of all types, not just the startup movies. Loading screens are considered movies. There are campaign movies, too, and you’ll miss out on those with the command line switch.
There is a way to turn off the start-up movies in a non-destructive way. Find your “My Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Config\UTEngine.ini” file. Open it with a text editor, such as notepad, and search for “[FullScreenMovie]“. Directly below it, add semicolons before all the sections that say “StartupMovies”. It should look like this:
[FullScreenMovie]
;StartupMovies=Copyright_PC
;StartupMovies=EpicLogo
;StartupMovies=MidwayLogo
;StartupMovies=UE3_logo
;StartupMovies=Nvidia_PC
;StartupMovies=Intel_Duo_Logo
;StartupMovies=UT_loadmovie1
Congratulations. You have disabled start-up movies and/or restored your loading screens!