Unreal Tournament 2004 Linux retail patch v3270

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A month after the Windows update, Icculus has now issued the Linux version 3270-1 patch for Unreal Tournament 2004, bringing this edition of the multiplayer first-person shooter by Epic Games in sync. As before, this release adds a third batch of improvements, bug fixes and other changes for the Onslaught mode, general gameplay, menus, demo recording, networking, mod support, engine and more.

General Game play:

Fixed low skill bots using lifts
CTF defender AI improvements (pursuing flag)
Optimized splash effects
Junkyard magnet now works again
Fixed AS-Junkyard exploit

View: ChangeLog

Download: UT2004 Linux retail patch v3270

News source: 3D Gamers

Build 9 24 August 2004

* Version number incremented to 1.1
* Redesigned user interface
* Added right click context menu to profile list on main window
* Added new services to service help (including new XP SP2 services)
* Added colors and minor modications to text window logging to fsasctl
* Added additional support for terminating the desktop (explorer.exe)
* Added running programs filter to programs window
* Added Tools menu option to allow user to set Program Options and launch the Service Manager
* Added Tool Tip help througout the program (can be disabled via Program Options)
* Added abilty to shutdown or restart the computer after fsasctl has finished execution (not available for Windows 9x/ME)
* Fixed bug where Comments embedded in program executables were not being displayed properly in the programs window

#1 mr_da3m0n on 01 Sep 2004 - 04:55

Yaaaaay!
*cheers alone in a danky corner labelled "Linux Gamers"*

#2 CaKeY on 01 Sep 2004 - 06:46

you are not alone

(6 replies) #3 DjmUK on 01 Sep 2004 - 10:48

I'm confused about something here.

1.) UT2004 is dependant on DirectX (Direct3D Rendering) right?
2.) But Linux cannot support DX because it's a Microsoft API.
3.) So how can one play this game on Linux (unless it's OpenGL or Software rendered)?

X.) If I were to write a UT2004 mod with Shader Model 3.0 enhancements, would Linux be able to process the information because DX decodes the SM pathways. (I know it's GPU dependant, so there's not a problem there).

#3.1 Dessimat0r on 01 Sep 2004 - 11:21

Eh? It has an OpenGL engine as well as a Direct3D one. You can go into your UT2004.ini and enable it.

#3.2 nookadum on 01 Sep 2004 - 13:59

Epic Games have been creating *nux ports of all their Unreal-based games for a long time now. The *nix ports use OpenGL 1.4 as it's 3D renderer. I think software rendering is supported as well.

#3.3 T-Metal on 01 Sep 2004 - 15:33

So, is it possible to get comparable framerates like the Windows version? If it's comparable, that would be great.

#3.4 slapnuts_ox on 01 Sep 2004 - 18:55

yea the game runs great for me on my linux box. actually faster than windows did in dx for me.

#3.5 DjmUK on 01 Sep 2004 - 20:43

That sounds like a lot of hard work. Creating 2x Rendering engines (DirectX & OpenGL), I don't suppose there's a way of converting a DX engine to O-GL (I doubt it, but then again I'm not sure).

#3.6 CaKeY on 02 Sep 2004 - 00:00

Acutally, with an nvidia graphics card I find the game runs BETTER on Linux.

#4 Ficman on 01 Sep 2004 - 11:14

I hope this one works, Windows patch left a little to be desired...

(1 reply) #5 L0LR0FL on 01 Sep 2004 - 18:25

i cant get video drivers working on linux

#5.1 theyarecomingforyou on 04 Sep 2004 - 21:13

I assume you're using ATi? In which case it is them, not you. They only support X86Config 4.3 and don't support X.org yet (which is used in most recent distros)... there are patches about, but I've found all of them hose my system (SuSE, Fedora Core 2, etc).

There are rumours that ATi will make a shared base driver (for Windows and Linu

and just have a different part that interfaces with the OS (either Windows, Linux, Linux64, etc) - but I wouldn't expect them to come out before 64 bit drivers that are meant to come out at the end of this year ("allegedly"

.

If you have an nVidia card then you shouldn't have any issues at all (with SuSE, for example, you can download a patch with the online updater to enable 3D graphics).

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