'Unreal Tournament' On ML

(Contributed by Robert C. Pilkington, edited)

(I've cut down this submissions to the UT part, refer to the previous pages on how to install nVidia's Linux drivers. tom)

Make sure that you have your UT CD in your CD-ROM and that the disk is mounted (e.g. with ls -l /mnt/cdrom otherwise you have to mount it with mount /mnt/cdrom).
Login to your favorite GUI (personally, I prefer Gnome) as yourself ( user, not 'root'). Open a terminal and navigate to the /dl/ut directory on the CD, and then login as root

• su
• mkdir /usr/local/games/ut
• ./ut-install-428.run

After a couple of seconds, a graphical install window should come up, just follow along (make sure to use OpenGL) with the defaults. When it asks if you want to start the game, at the end, say "no".

Go back to the console and type:

./ut-patch-428a.run

Once that is done, you need to copy over the 'SDLGLDrv.so' file to the UT system directory:

cp SDLGLDrv.so /usr/local/games/ut/System

You should now be set to go. If you want, you could reboot (I hear rebooting at this point can clear-up some lockups that can occur). To start the game, login as a user into an X Window GUI and then type

/usr/local/games/ut/ut &

** I got extremely bad performance when trying to run in Gnome (less than 2 fps), but I was able to achieve satisfactory results when running in KDE (~ 60+f ps).........preferentially treatment? If you get good results in Gnome, let me know **

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'Quake3: Arena' On ML

(Contributed by Robert C. Pilkington, edited)

1. As 'root', create two directories for 'q3': '/usr/local/games/q3' and '/usr/local/games/q3/baseq3'.

2. Obtain the patch for Linux ('Linux Q3:A Point 1.17') and put it into '/usr/local/games/q3'

3. Copy the ".pak" files from the 'Q3:A' CD to '/usr/local/games/q3/baseq3' (e.g. with find /mnt/cdrom -name '*.pak' -exec cp {} /usr/local/games/q3/baseq3 \;

4. Change permissions: chmod -R 755 /usr/local/games/qt3

5. Leave the 'root' account and run:

   /usr/local/games/q3linuxq3apoint-1.17.x86.run

   A Q3:A install window should appear. Make sure that the 'Install' and 'Binary' directories (/usr/local/games/q3) are correctly set in the setup window.

Once the setup is finished, you can load the game with

/usr/local/games/q3/quake3

You may wish to create a shortcut to your desktop to shorten the process.

Note: The version 1.25y patch for Linux may be available by the time you read this, so be sure to look and see if you need it.

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