For those who DO Game here are 2 boxouts from a recent UT2K3 article in a linux magazine I purchase once in a while...(Some may remember me trying to get a subscription to them...and a big goose egg for my troubles ... PR & Support never got back to me FYI. Linux Format is the name of it, UK Publication. Last time I ever try to get a subscription using a webform.)
I quoteth: Stealth Release? It does exactly what it says on the box... and a whole lot more! Unreal Trounament 2003 is a bit of a landmark for Linux gaming. It installs directly 'out of hte box'. You don't need any additional downloads as with RTCW (Return to Castle Wolfenstein). It is the first mainstream game to be released simultaneously for windows & linux in the same box. The interesting thing is that that is no mention of linux on the packaging at all. All the system requirements are for the windows version. The name "Linux" doesn't appear in teh user manual either. In fact,if you didn't know it was there, you might never find the linux installer. There is no mention at all of the Linux version on the official UT2K3 website either, which is even stranger. It may be that the linux versionwas included at the last minute, but surely the website could have included additional information. There is plently of info on the demo version for linux after all. It seems likely that Epic perhaps didnt' want to get into support issues by officially recognizing the linux version, but as they haven't replied to any of our attempts to contact them, so I guess we'll never know." Now this is what they say about installing it: "It isn't true to say that only the Nvidia cards work with UT2K3, although these will probably provide the best results. The game makes extensive use of the S3TC (Savage Texture Compression) routines which are only supported under the proprietary Nvidia drivers, not the one included with XFree86. You'll also need to have a Geforce2 card to run the game on your box. Alternatively, the new drivers for the ATI 8500/9000 Cards also support S3TC with the new driver available from the ATI site. We have not been able to test how well these work at the moment." Phew! So... I did some googling & can't figure out how to install the stupid ATI drivers. It gives me a conflict ... something about its glibc or glc (not sure which) conflicting with mine. I did d/l their little script to tell which ver of glibc I have & it is newer than the one they recommend. So can anyone tell me if they've gotten the ATI drivers to work with MDK 9.1? If so how? Ditto UT2K3? Just thought i'd pass this stuff along as I know some of us on the list do other stuff than just program & use sed/awk/grep/perl (sounds like a house of nannies with weird hobbies if you ask me... sed 1, perl 2, awk 1, grep 2...) -- Femme *************************** *Using Evolution on * *Mandrake 9.1 & Loving it!* Suck it M$hit! OWNED! * ***************************
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