Don't bother with UT2003 if you don't have an nVidia card.
It looks like the UT2003 demo requires nVidia cards and something they support which the Radeon cards don't under XFree86. What a bunch of bullshit. ##### 11:57AM ben@zeus:/usr/local/bin/ > ./ut2003_demo OpenGL renderer relies on DXTC/S3TC support. History: Exiting due to error zsh: 9929 exit 1 ./ut2003_demo ##### *sigh* This is crap. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I tell you what you should see.
* Ben Rosenberg (ben@whack.org) [020914 12:00]: :: ::##### :: ::11:57AM ben@zeus:/usr/local/bin/ > ./ut2003_demo ::OpenGL renderer relies on DXTC/S3TC support. After a 96M download and the install..etc..etc. I read the README. They say the binary only nVidia drivers/GLX are the only things that are supported. They say they are working on a solution and are willing to work with anyone who writes X drivers to get support in. I wonder if XFree will support this spec for other cards or if it's an nVidia copy written spec that no one but them will ever support. I have this strange feeling that if something isn't done..they won't be selling as many copies of UT2003 as they thought they would. I personally won't go back to nVidia's drivers and crap just to play a game. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I tell you what you should see.
Hey Ben, That's a shitty deal for sure. I'm downloading it right now cuz I still have an Nvidia based board in my machine, but I have a Radeon en route so I will be pissed soon enough as well. I'm just going to drop them an e-mail to let them know that I'm not happy about the lack of non NVIDIA support..may not help, but at least I'll try. Cheers On Sat, 2002-09-14 at 12:10, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Ben Rosenberg (ben@whack.org) [020914 12:00]: :: ::##### :: ::11:57AM ben@zeus:/usr/local/bin/ > ./ut2003_demo ::OpenGL renderer relies on DXTC/S3TC support.
After a 96M download and the install..etc..etc. I read the README. They say the binary only nVidia drivers/GLX are the only things that are supported. They say they are working on a solution and are willing to work with anyone who writes X drivers to get support in. I wonder if XFree will support this spec for other cards or if it's an nVidia copy written spec that no one but them will ever support. I have this strange feeling that if something isn't done..they won't be selling as many copies of UT2003 as they thought they would. I personally won't go back to nVidia's drivers and crap just to play a game.
-- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I tell you what you should see.
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That's a shitty deal for sure. I'm downloading it right now cuz I still have an Nvidia based board in my machine, but I have a Radeon en route so I will be pissed soon enough as well. I'm just going to drop them an e-mail to let them know that I'm not happy about the lack of non NVIDIA support..may not help, but at least I'll try.
don't blame epic, blame the card makers and s3 (yes, they are also a card maker, so blame them twice). the problem is that ut2k3 relies on the s3tc (s3 texture compression) extention to opengl. nvidia is the only card maker that provides this extention in a working fashion for their cards under linux (the kyro drivers have it, but it doesn't seem to work). xfree86/mesa won't be able to do it because of patent restrictions, and ati's binary only drivers for the 8500 evidently don't support it. maybe if ati actually holds to a 'unified driver model' like nvidia has been doing for years (ati has been claiming they would start doing it for about 3 years now), and also ports those drivers to linux, then the radeon 9700 and 9000 cards will work also. -- trey
On a side note..I downloaded and installed it on my nvidia based system and still didn't get it to work. Keep getting this error: influx@kreator:~> ut2003_demo fcntl: Invalid argument fcntl: Invalid argument Xlib: extension "XiG-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD" missing on display ":0.0". OpenGL renderer relies on DXTC/S3TC support. History: Exiting due to error As far as I can tell this might be from the fact that I'm not using the standard binary nvidia drivers but a rebuilt set of rpms cuz of my updated kernel. Ho Hum. No luck for me :( On Sat, 2002-09-14 at 16:34, Mark Doucette wrote:
Hey Ben,
That's a shitty deal for sure. I'm downloading it right now cuz I still have an Nvidia based board in my machine, but I have a Radeon en route so I will be pissed soon enough as well. I'm just going to drop them an e-mail to let them know that I'm not happy about the lack of non NVIDIA support..may not help, but at least I'll try.
Cheers
-- Mark Doucette kranked@canada.com WinFree and Lovin' it. SuSE Rox Linux! Registered Linux User # 240512 ----////----
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