Saturday, September 14, 2002

The Making of UT2K3 for Linux -- 11:14 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Linux Games posted an interesting article on how Unreal Tournament 2003 was ported to Linux. It also gives some information on which video cards and drivers will work with the demo. Unfortunately, right now only NVIDIA-based cards work because only their drivers support the GL_EXT_texture_compresion_s3tc OpenGL extension. Epic is working with ATi and others to get their drivers up to snuff. Ryan "icculus" Gordon has set up a Bugzilla database and mailing list for information on the Linux client and server.

I've only played with the demo in Linux a little bit. It does seem to be a tad slower than the Windows version, but I haven't gotten the benchmarking to work in Linux to prove it. In Windows I got 64 fps on the Citadel flyby and 33 fps on the Citadel botmatch. Mind you, this is at 1024x768x32 with all the options cranked.

The only problem that I've had with the Linux version is that I can't seem to control the volume of the music. A minor annoyance. I did notice, however, that Epic is using Ogg Vorbis for all their music files. Very cool!

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