Comments on: UT2004 Miscellany

By:

Wed, 27 Jul 2005 06:17:36 +0000

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By: autoreplay

autoreplay — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 13:21:06 +0000

[b]Some details:[/b]

OS: SuSE 9.0 cpu – Athlon XP2400+
Video: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro

fglrxinfo:
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9800 Pro Generic
OpenGL version string: 1.3 (X4.3.0-3.7.6)

[b]Problem:
FPS during online play: 20-74 [/b]

I have tested the game on Windows 2000, DirectX 9b (booted from another harddrive) and I got stable 84 FPS during any network play.

Single player shows 50-150 fps on linux and 150-250 under Windows), the game slows dows when an enemy is around (a close fight with 4-5 enemies cause FPS drop down to 20 which is unacceptable especially for Instagib) or near complex surfaces.

I play a lot, fps=20 is not for me, I do not know what to do with linux and opengl libraries to make them work faster, I will be around for the next couple of days, if you guys give me some idea what to tweak, I would greatly appreciate it. On the other hand I can always switch back to [b]windows[/b] version just to play UT2K4 which [b]sucks ars[/b].

By: DaveLinux

DaveLinux — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:17:59 +0000

Because they included Linux support out of the box. To show my support for this, I bought the game. Never bought any of the UT games before. Thank you, Epic.

Having said that, I played it this weekend and enjoyed it. I did get a crash, but I’m confident Icculus will stablize it with a future patch. I did play for a few hours, so one crash isn’t too, too bad.

What I can’t get used to is NO JETPACK! Ugh. I’m a Tribes junkie and miss my jetpack, damnit!

By:

Mon, 29 Mar 2004 02:12:32 +0000

Whi not?
linuxgames.com is a great site for linux gamers
if there were the forum we could be known better and to discuss about what we would like to play with linux too.

By: crimsonghost

crimsonghost — Sat, 27 Mar 2004 21:12:52 +0000

Im trying to get my ut2004 installed on suse 9.0, but it will not let me unmount the cd when the program ask for cd 2. Just tells me that the cd rom device is busy. I was just wondering if anyone had any experince with suse and could tell me what i need to do. BTW im running the latest kernel and all updated packages..well atleast through YOU anyway. Thanks in advance.

By:

Fri, 26 Mar 2004 18:49:21 +0000

Or is the game actually more power hungry than the demo?
I have an amd 2000xp + geforce200mx and the demo was doing great. I buy the full version and the framerate dropped to the point that it is barely the same game feel-wise.
Yes I talk about the same map.

By:

Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:36:57 +0000

Section 5 of EULA stated cheaters will get permanent ban from CD. Unfortunately, that means if anyone else bought a used copy of UT2004 from a cheater, the new user will get screwed by Epic lawyers, without even doing the cheating! The whole Section 5 is nothing but a distraction tactic trying to outlaw used game sales!! BOYCOTT EPIC NOW!!!

By:

Wed, 24 Mar 2004 16:25:25 +0000

For anyone having problems with the installer, I had to also do:
export SETUP_CDROM=/mnt/cdrom2
before the installer would recognize the DVD was actually in the drive. This was on Mandrake 10.

By:

Wed, 24 Mar 2004 09:23:42 +0000

the game is really fun, i played the demo constantly and i got the retail dvd but it does crash randomly unfortunately, but it was nice to see the penguin on the box.

i also have a problem where the loading screens are black for me with the white text over them, none of the backgrounds load like they did for the demo

By:

Wed, 24 Mar 2004 05:40:00 +0000

it segfaults every time i try to run it