off topic: Linux & UT

R. Ludwig · #1 22-06-2002, 11:47

hi guys,

i just tested to play ut with linux, it works, but i still have problems. so it cant be used for an war.

i have an gf3, 512mb ram, amd 1333. sb live player
using suse linux 8.0 pro.

sometimes the sound dont work, sometimes my mouse dont work, sometimes the complete machine hangs. also the gfx is not smooth like with win32 and there are some nasty gfx errors.

i am not very familar with linux, so maybe i missed something.
i used suse online update, but i am sure thats not the correct
way to get all to work eh ? :P

can someone point me to an doc on how to tune this ? how to get this 100% to work ??!?!!

thanks...

regards,
ralf

#2 22-06-2002, 13:23

ALSA or OSS sounddriver? What version of UT? What renderer? Are the NVidia drivers + OpenGL installed correctly? Do other games run (Q3, rtcw)?
URLs:

http://www.lokigames.com/support/
http://holarse.wue.de/index.php

R. Ludwig · #3 22-06-2002, 15:28

aehm..

i dont know about sound driver ?!?!

i just download from loki this ut installer .36 , installed
ut and it worked.

i am using opengl , i dont play other games. :P

ut runs, but its not really playable.

PNB^Harley · #4 22-06-2002, 15:33

yep the renderer is important. so the default renderer is sdl ->software

N. Werensteijn · #5 22-06-2002, 15:54

suse uses alsa sound.
As for renderer. I remember that ut could only be played using opengl or glide on linux?

Anyway.. its suse 8.0

7.0 sucked to.
You might want to start to see if you have the latest nvidia drivers. As for the mouse.. dont know about that.

#6 22-06-2002, 16:08

Try to set these lines in your ~/.loki/ut/System/UnrealTournament.ini:

[Engine.Engine]
GameRenderDevice=OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice
WindowedRenderDevice=OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice
RenderDevice=OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice
Try again with these lines and edit your settings in the [OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice] section. Most of the time this helps.

If not:
Run "lsmod". This shows installed kernel modules. If you have alot of lines starting with "snd-" you probably use ALSA. I run ALSA 0.9-rc1 without any UT soundproblems.

Run "glxinfo". It should print a few lines about your OpenGL renderer. It should be NVidia. If there are other renderers (MESA) plz take a look into NVidia's Readme.txt to know how to get rid of them.

PNB^Harley · #7 22-06-2002, 16:12

as i sayed...the default renderer is sdl/mesa thingy .....software rendere without hardware acceleration. you have to change this in the UnrealTournament.ini in ~/.loki/ut/System
and of course fetch the latest nvidia driver.
i dont have suse and i dont like suse;-) ...but AFAIK there are some special things to get opengl running...
try to run glxinfo in a xterm an look for a line like:OpenGL version string: 1.3.1 NVIDIA 28.80
if its present opengl runs....at least do a cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status (as root)
if you see:
Status:Enabled
Driver:NVIDIA
(or maybe agpgart),the only problem is ut itself

#8 23-06-2002, 11:23

Hi
My SuSE7.3 uses a tool called
3Ddiag
for checking nVidia-GLX & DRI configuration. If the correct driver is installed you can run the script
switch2nvidia_glx
Be shure you have the package NVIDIA_GLX and NVIDIA_KERNEL installed, and you have to be member of the group `video`.

If you have the SuSE Box, look into the book "KONFIGURATION" I think you will find the information you need .

YEEEHAAWWW!!

Norad · #9 24-06-2002, 20:25

so the one question not answered until now is the used graphics-driver .. there is an opensource one that is part of xfree86 and there is that fast closedsource one from nvidia. the OS one is quite slow compared to the driver from nvidia, so you should use that.