I am running Ubuntu 7.10 on a Gateway laptop with ATI Radeon Xpress 200M video and I successfully got OldUnreal working well! Using wine I installed Unreal from my original CD, then downloaded the 277a (beta) patch, installed that.
Upon first running I selected OpenGL and it started up, it was all choppy and unplayable. By using the Unreal safe mode options I found it was a problem with the "3D sound" so after some tries here and there I finally changed the default audio device from ALAudio to FMOD and it works like a charm!
Full hardware accelerated gameplay. I do notice though that when I have the translator icon on my HUD it causes an artifact but changing the HUD configuration seemed to help that.
So I don't know about that whole HOWTO thing but this was actually pretty easy.
For direct access use https://forums.oldunreal.com
It's been quite a while since oldunreal had an overhaul, but we are moving to another server which require some updates and changes. The biggest change is the migration of our old reliable YaBB forum to phpBB. This system expects you to login with your username and old password known from YaBB.
If you experience any problems there is also the usual "password forgotten" function. Don't forget to clear your browser cache!
If you have any further concerns feel free to contact me: Smirftsch@oldunreal.com
It's been quite a while since oldunreal had an overhaul, but we are moving to another server which require some updates and changes. The biggest change is the migration of our old reliable YaBB forum to phpBB. This system expects you to login with your username and old password known from YaBB.
If you experience any problems there is also the usual "password forgotten" function. Don't forget to clear your browser cache!
If you have any further concerns feel free to contact me: Smirftsch@oldunreal.com
Very Doable!
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Re: Very Doable!
Using wine it is very doable yes. I'm hoping to be able to run it native though. Some others posted reguarding Ubuntu and running unreal native and I haven't heard of anyone getting it to run native in Ubuntu thus far. I haven't tried running it native in Ubuntu yet. Fact is I will probably try Kubuntu 1st. However previously running unreal in Ubuntu (with wine) I had the same results (no sound issues though) and used S3TC textures as well.
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Re: Very Doable!
the next version is statically linked, so it will (hopefully) run on more, if not all distros...
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