UT2004 for Linux DEMO out!

Thetargos · 02-15-2004, 01:13 AM

Glad you have it working now

sneeze · 02-15-2004, 03:06 AM

I got the file but can't decompress it ....

Here's the error i get in console:
tar -xvjf ut2004-lnx-demo-3120.run.bz2
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers

What's that base-64 ? I use Xandros and i'm pretty new to this so, thanks for the help !

sneeze · 02-15-2004, 03:22 AM

Nervermind, i got it !

It not even a TAR archive it's Bzip2 so i used bunzip2 -v filename
My mistake....

Thanks anyway

fader · 02-15-2004, 12:01 PM

I can't get UT2004 Demo to run on Slackware. It says Couldn't set video mode: Couldn't find matching GLX visual. I have the generic ATI Radeon driver from XFree86 and glxinfo and glxgears reports no errors. I really want to play this game on linux. Someone help

Thetargos · 02-15-2004, 01:12 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by fader
I can't get UT2004 Demo to run on Slackware. It says Couldn't set video mode: Couldn't find matching GLX visual. I have the generic ATI Radeon driver from XFree86 and glxinfo and glxgears reports no errors. I really want to play this game on linux. Someone help

Maybe there's the problem about the S3TC all over again?

Freaksta · 02-15-2004, 01:56 PM

Do me a favor and please post your cpu/videocard and average ONLINE and OFFLINE Frame Per Second (FPS) (ingame and menu) . I would like to compair..

I have a Athlon XP 1900+ / GeForce FX5900 128 non ultra and i'll post my FSP in a min.. im using nvagp 1 and 2xAA

thanks

also i'm at 1024/768 fullscreen @ 85herz i hope :P

Thetargos · 02-15-2004, 02:58 PM

Here's my FPS score (offline) with my benchmark script:
@ 1024x768x32 (ATi-Linux does not support 16-bit

):

Code:

Benchmark Name: ATi-3.2.8-2XAA
Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo
OS: Linux 2.6.2 i686 athlon
RADEON 9500 Athlon (3DNow!) 

Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+

Speed: 1527.110
Memory (Mb): 503


Botmatch benchmark

map		min	mean	max	score
dm-rankin	15.383	40.493	103.010	40.463

Online FPS are about the same (depending on how much action there's in a scene).

BeBop · 02-15-2004, 03:01 PM

My fps in UT2004 sucks, i'm gettin 4-6, maybe 10 max. I have P4 2.54, 1 gig ram, GeForce ti 4600. Could someone please tell possible reasons and the steps I could take to correct them. Thank You.

Thetargos · 02-15-2004, 03:06 PM

My first question would be what distribution/kernel/driver versions?

There's this theory about the directory /usr/X11R6/lib/tls, if you only remove the libGL's contained there you may boost performance (even in Radeon cards its true). This only applies to some distros, however: Mandrake, SuSE, Red Hat, Fedora, Debian (maybe), Xandros (maybe). Distros I know don't have this directory are Gentoo and Slackware (to the best of my knowledge).

And of course there's the thing about glx, you do have glx running correctly, right? (you may run any other game 3D accelerated, or the glxgers demo at 1k+ fps, windowed.)

BeBop · 02-15-2004, 06:52 PM

I have suse 9 and i'm new to it so i don't know what kernel i have. But the drivers should be the newest ones since I updated through the YOU thing. I have no idea what glx is, i hope this helps you help me.

Moebius · 02-15-2004, 07:06 PM

OK I ran the run file, then what?

Code:

[zac@localhost Downloads]$ ./ut2004-lnx-demo-3120-2.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo for GNU/Linux 3120.....................................................

I saw an earlier post here that says all you have to do is type ut2004demo and it'll start? That didn't happen:

Code:

[zac@localhost zac]$ ut2004demo
bash: ut2004demo: command not found

I don't see anything that was extracted. In fact i did a find files for *ut2004* and didn't see anything that was extracted. Did the run file even do anything?

Thanks for the help...

fader · 02-15-2004, 07:19 PM

About the "Maybe there's the problem about the S3TC all over again?":

I have no idea was S3TC is, sorry. I installed UT2004 in my home directory. I have an ATI Radeon 9700 and I use the ATI Driver provided during xf86config, since Slackware does not have rpms. I try to run UT2004 in terminal and get the message: "Couldn't set video mode: Couldn't find matching GLX visual." I know I have all the openGL library files and glxgears and glxinfo work. However, I did find something about this on Tuxracer's website that be helpful. This applies to tuxracer, but it says something about set bpp_mode to 0 in the options file of tuxracer. Is there anything like this under the .ut2004 folder in the home directory. Just a thought.

Thetargos · 02-15-2004, 10:04 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by BeBop
I have suse 9 and i'm new to it so i don't know what kernel i have. But the drivers should be the newest ones since I updated through the YOU thing. I have no idea what glx is, i hope this helps you help me.

Your kernel version (right now) don't matter much, just so you know what kernel you have, type in a console this:

Code:

uname -r

That will return a number.

You need the kernel sources to install any drivers for you videocard (nVidia or ATi). So go get them! (should be as easy as yum install kernel-source or something like that). Once you have that and if your videocard is nVidia or ATi go get their drivers (the links are on their web pages). Try following their gudes, if that doesn't work, post back

Thetargos · 02-15-2004, 10:07 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Moebius
OK I ran the run file, then what?

Code:

[zac@localhost Downloads]$ ./ut2004-lnx-demo-3120-2.run Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo for GNU/Linux 3120.....................................................

I saw an earlier post here that says all you have to do is type ut2004demo and it'll start? That didn't happen:

Code:

[zac@localhost zac]$ ut2004demo bash: ut2004demo: command not found

I don't see anything that was extracted. In fact i did a find files for *ut2004* and didn't see anything that was extracted. Did the run file even do anything?

Thanks for the help...

Let me get that straight. You successfully installed the demo? do you actually have the directory created and stuff? You should see an installer window similar to that of Quake3/UT/UT2003.

In that window you have the location of the packages (where will it be installed to) and the location of the links so you may start it vi a simple command. If you did not see any window like the one I'm describing, you did not install correctly the demo (you may need to be root in order to do so).

Thetargos · 02-15-2004, 10:11 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by fader
About the "Maybe there's the problem about the S3TC all over again?":

I have no idea was S3TC is, sorry. I installed UT2004 in my home directory. I have an ATI Radeon 9700 and I use the ATI Driver provided during xf86config, since Slackware does not have rpms. I try to run UT2004 in terminal and get the message: "Couldn't set video mode: Couldn't find matching GLX visual." I know I have all the openGL library files and glxgears and glxinfo work. However, I did find something about this on Tuxracer's website that be helpful. This applies to tuxracer, but it says something about set bpp_mode to 0 in the options file of tuxracer. Is there anything like this under the .ut2004 folder in the home directory. Just a thought.

Ok for Slackware go get a program called rpm2tgz, after all RPMs are tar.gz/bz2 files that are uncompressed in a special manner trhough an included script. So you may convert them easily to a standard tarball. Decompress the tarball and place the directories at their suggested locations (fglrx under /lib/modules, ATI under /usr/src/, etc). For a more in depth HowTo, please visit http://www.rage3d.com/board/forumdis...?s=&forumid=61, Who_Knows has compiled a very handy How To.