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Unreal Tournament FAQ
Last Updated on: 2000-09-16 01:43:52

This is where you will find useful information about Unreal Tournament for Linux. The following are answers to some frequently asked questions about this game. Please read these before e-mailing Loki Technical Support - Chances are your question is answered here too!

1. Introduction

  • 1.1 How to use this FAQ
  • 1.2 Authors

    2. Requirements

  • 2.1 What are the system requirements for this game?
  • 2.2 Which Linux platforms does UT run on?
  • 2.3 Does UT run on any non-Linux platforms?

    3. Demo

  • 3.1 Where can I get the Unreal Tournament demo version?
  • 3.2 Does the demo support anything other than Glide?
  • 3.3 Where can I get technical support for the Linux UT demo?

    4. Installation

  • 4.1 How do I install the game?
  • 4.2 Which installer should I use?
  • 4.3 Can I specify the CD directory?
  • 4.4 Even after specifying the CD path, it still won't install, because it can't find the CD!
  • 4.5 Does the installer work under FreeBSD?
  • 4.6 How can I install umod files into the Linux version of UT?
  • 4.7 After installing, I can't run the game. It always exits with a SIGIOT.
  • 4.8 The game complains about a missing libesd.so. Where can I get that?
  • 4.9 Installation appears to have been successful, but the game keeps complaining about a missing 'Entry' and exiting!

    5. Display

  • 5.1 The intro and sound are really choppy, and the game crashes when I hit ESC.
  • 5.2 The game crashed and I can't switch back to my normal resolution using CTRL-ALT- +/-
  • 5.3 I'm not getting any fog with the OpenGL renderer!
  • 5.4 Can I fix the menu corruption/black boxes instead of text in the menus?
  • 5.5 In OpenGL, the whole screen turns white whenever I'm hit, and I can't see anything!
  • 5.6 The 428 patch has really slowed the GL version down.
  • 5.7 UT crashes on my (G200/G400/Voodoo) when I hit ESC to exit the opening movie.
  • 5.8 UT 428a gives me "Glide: Colorbuffers (2,3) failed, failing back ..." when I try to launch.
  • 5.9 What does "The file '../System/Core' contains unrecognizable data" mean?
  • 5.10 The game displays very slowly/choppily, almost as if running in Mesa software mode, on my TNT/TNT2/GeForce.
  • 5.11 How can I change the display resolution of the game?
  • 5.12 I just installed UT 436, and now the textures aren't showing up on my GeForce!

    6. Networking

  • 6.1 Most of the time when I connect to a server on the internet it starts downloading "multimesh".

    7. Input

  • 7.1 I am rendering in windowed mode and the mouse is grabbed in the window.

    8. Sound

  • 8.1 I can't get any sound with an Aureal Vortex-based card!

    9. Renderer

  • 9.1 I installed the Glide[OpenGL, Software] Renderer as default but now want to use the OpenGL[Glide, Software] renderer.
  • 9.2 How can I specify my OpenGL library?
  • 9.3 I am using XF 4.0 with my 3dfx card and the textures look really weird. When I exit the game I can see a "No space for texture" error message.
  • 9.4 The towers seem to flicker in CTF-FACE.
  • 9.5 The game segfaults when trying to use windowed mode with the Glide renderer.
  • 9.6 There used to be an OpenGL renderer for Windows, but it's no longer there!
  • 9.7 Can I use the Glide renderer with XFree86 4.x?

    10. Administration

  • 10.1 The web admin won't run!
  • 10.2 My changes to UnrealTournament.ini on the server aren't taking effect.
  • 10.3 I can't get ngWorldStats working. Can you help?
  • 10.4 Is there a way to get just the dedicated server?

    11. Miscellaneous

  • 11.1 Is there additional information available?

    12. Contact

  • 12.1 How do I report a bug?
  • 12.2 How can I receive technical support?




    1. Introduction

    2. Requirements

    3. Demo

    4. Installation

    5. Display

    6. Networking

    7. Input

    8. Sound

    9. Renderer

    10. Administration

    11. Miscellaneous

    12. Contact

    Support inquries should be addressed to support@lokigames.com.
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