God I hate TTF. I was going enter the gamingSA server but then I saw that superfluous mutator which completely turned me off joining.

That's a bit odd. I'm running it on Windows 7 without a problem. When you installed it through Steam, did you make sure to proceed with all of the installers that it opened? (OpenAL, PhysX, VC runtime, Bink Video.)

When I first installed it on Windows 7 I cancelled the installers because I was busy when Steam intrusively opened them without prompting me, but it then never let me install them again. Turned out later that they are all in the root directory of the UT3 install directory. My temporary solution to the problem was disabling the intro cutscenes in one of the game's INI files.

Yeah i originaly bought it in store and then activated it on steam worked alright until formatted and loaded win 7 on (AGES ago) so on a whim i decided to Download and play again So might... be win7 buh IDK and yes all my drivers are up to date

it sucks cos' now i RLY RLY RLY RLY RLY wanna play >_>

In fact, there are currently eight people on the Internode DM server. You won't be seeing me there, since I don't like DM, though. :)

Keep in mind that the Internode servers are buggy and often fail to report that they actually contain players, so it can be helpful to check the server list in a web browser to quickly check if anyone's on their servers: http://games.on.net/gameservers.php.

Furthermore, GamingSA also offers a web-based server checking thing: http://www.gamingsa.com/?p=servers.

Oh, and we usually play on GamingSA VCTF. Some times we play on Internode VCTF, but it is nowhere near as good as GamingSA. If you're into deathmatch, the Internode DM server is probably the most common Australian one.

Hysteria, have you got the latest drivers for your video card? Did the game work previously?

if you don't mind losing all of your settings, custom content and stuff, you could try deleting the entire Unreal Tournament 3 directory from your My Documents\My Games directory.