Where do I get UT2003?

[retoon]

Hey all, I am looking for Unreal Tournament 2003 native to linux. Unfortunately, I do not have a retailer near by that can sell it to me, and I don't know where the best place to buy games is. I'll keep searching in the meantime, but wasn't sure if anyone knew where I could get the best deal for it. Also, is there a seperate box for the linux version, or is it in the same box as the windows version? On top of all of that, I read that it only supports nvidia vid cards, is that true? I have an ATI radeon 7000 w/ 32mb of sdram.

[z0mbix]

The linux version/installer is on the normal windows CD's. CD 3 IIRC. You don't say where you are from so I can't really recommend anywhere to you. Do you not have a games store near you?

[bwkaz]

It's in the same box as the Windows version (as z0mbix said, it's on CD 3).

It used to only support nVidia cards, because it only worked with S3TC texture compression enabled, and the nVidia drivers used to be the only ones that supported S3TC (S3 has a patent on the technology, and they enforce it, which means no open-source driver can really implement it legally, grr).

Lately, however, ATI has released drivers for the Radeon 8500 and up (8500, 9000, 9500, 9700, and whatnot else that they have out) for Linux that support S3TC. With the latest UT2k3 patch, you can also turn that requirement off (I'm not sure how, but I'm sure it's explained somewhere). The game apparently runs dog slow, but it will run. This is what you're going to have to do with the Radeon 7000, since there are no S3TC-capable drivers for that card (that I know of).

[Seminole]

OK, I"m in the middle of installing it.
Actually I'm just starting. I've run the script on CD #3 and it's time to put in CD #1. however, my drive is mounted and I cannot unmount it. That means I cannot swap the disc. I have tried the "eject" thing. Is there anyway to FORCE this to unmount or open so I can slap the next disk in?

Anyone had this problem? RH 8 BTW.

Thanks

[TheGimp]

don't run the installer from the mount point. cd to your home directory and run it from there

eg. sh /mnt/cdrom/linux_installer.sh

[Seminole]

Thanks, that is exactly what I did (immediately after posting that. It worked great and I was able to install it and it's running just fine.

Next question:

Whenever I join a server (almost always) I have to D/L either a map or a mod it seems. Whenever the D/L is completed I get the boot and a message stating that the file could not be moved. I though perhaps this was a permission bug but I chmod'd all my directories to 777 to test it and I get the same error. Any thoughts on that??

Thanks
Sem

[bwkaz]

Have you run loki_update and installed all the patches?

I don't know if it'll help, but it's worth a shot.

[Seminole]

That appears to have done it.

I'm really impressed with this game so far. Not just the beauty of the graphics and the game-play. I'm impressedc with the fact that it shipped ready for Linux and that little things like the updater work flawlessly.

This is a GREAT example of how all major releases SHOULD be handled.

Good Job to the developers.

[VTruong01]

Originally posted by TheGimp
don't run the installer from the mount point. cd to your home directory and run it from there

eg. sh /mnt/cdrom/linux_installer.sh

i have tried that and it gave me input/output error.

/media/cdrecorder/linux_installer.sh: /media/cdrecorder/linux_installer.sh: Input/output error

very disappointed for buying the game and after a whole day still not working.

[elderdays]

Holy Crap! You mean I've had it all this time for Linux too and didn't know it?! I'm now stoked!

[TheGimp]

Originally posted by VTruong01
i have tried that and it gave me input/output error.

/media/cdrecorder/linux_installer.sh: /media/cdrecorder/linux_installer.sh: Input/output error

very disappointed for buying the game and after a whole day still not working.

unless you mounted your cdrom/cdwriter with exec permissions, use sh to execute the installer... see my example.