DOlson Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 http://planetunreal.com/#PQN437016 UT2004 is on track for release for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, published by Atari. Atari and its corporate predecessors Infogrames and GT have always done a great job of publishing Epic's games. They'll continue to have our full support and we'll have theirs. Two future Epic games are signed with Microsoft. These games haven't been announced yet, so it's a way too early to lay out a platform roadmap, but Epic has always done the right thing when it comes to supporting popular computer and OS platforms, and there's no reason to assume that's going to change now. Great news about UT2004 (it looks sweet! see below), and a bit of hope for the future as well. Thanks Epic. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 That is great news! It's nice to see a press release like that every once in a while. Now if we could only get other companies to do the same we would be sitting in great shape (well, game wise anyway :wink: ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowFoxLSU Posted September 22, 2003 Report Share Posted September 22, 2003 Yay! UT2004 for linux..... now only if they release and 2003-> 2004 upgrade for $20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JaseP Posted September 22, 2003 Report Share Posted September 22, 2003 Hey I'm just glad they are releasing for Linux. I heard that they signed a deal with the dark empire to release M$ titles... I don't know if its a rumor or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted September 22, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2003 It's not a rumor, but it doesn't affect Linux as much as everyone thinks it will. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted September 23, 2003 Report Share Posted September 23, 2003 I wanna get it for the box art!!! It's a good thing to see. The UT series is a great load of games.Hopefully other vendors follow suit sooner or later. I can't wait to hear my friends say 'Linux sucks coz it doesnt have games' then i show em this. James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted September 28, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2003 From: http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showt...536#post4267536 UT2004 will support Linux (both client and server) as well. As with UT2003, Linux support will be included in the box with UT2004. This time we'll make sure it gets mentioned on the box. In case you also weren't aware of this: the Windows version of UT2004 will include native 64-bit support for AMD Athlon 64. Tim Sweeney and Ryan Gordon demonstrated the 64-bit version of UT2004 at today's AMD64 launch event in San Francisco. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted October 2, 2003 Report Share Posted October 2, 2003 AFAIK all of the Unreal games run under Linux with the exception of Unreal 2 (which was a bit bobbins anyway), and as icculus is working on it you can gaurantee it'll be better on Linux than windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted October 2, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2003 Well, I don't know about you, but I tried UT2003 on a Windows system with lower specs than my Linux box, and it blew mine out of the water... It's because Epic has a really nice Direct3D renderer, and a ... functional OpenGL renderer. I don't think Ryan is working on the GL renderer so much as making sure the game works, which is what I'm happy about, but don't be going around telling people that games are so much faster, etc on Linux, because right now, they aren't. At least not the newer UT-based ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravage Posted October 3, 2003 Report Share Posted October 3, 2003 that OpenGL renderer performs better in windows for me than in linux...even better than Direct3D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted October 3, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2003 That's pretty weird. I've only tried the Direct3D renderer in Windows. I'll have to try GL sometime. So what's the issue then, if not the unoptimized GL renderer that most people blame it on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted October 3, 2003 Report Share Posted October 3, 2003 Sorry I was unintentionally spreading bad info - I haven't actually got UT2003. I do know that unreal (using the UT engine), UT and quake 3 all perform better, for me, under Linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted October 3, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2003 Yeah, that's true. Well, at least the Q3-based games for me. UT was pretty close though. I hope that someday UT2003 runs decently on my machine. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sud_crow Posted October 4, 2003 Report Share Posted October 4, 2003 Talking about UT2003 and machine specs... A friend with windows and a Athlon 1.3ghz and 392mb ram and a GeForce2MX run it not that good... I have a p3 550@773 and 256mb and a GF2MX, do you think the Linux version would run "decently" on it?? I dont want fancy-graphics... but also dont want to see a big pixel simulating a bot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted October 4, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2003 Hmm... How can I answer that question... Oh, I know! "Can I interest you in a copy of Majesty Gold? I'm in the manual..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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