My Linux Gaming Success

So far, here is what I have up and running on SuSe 9.2 Pro, with a 3.2Ghz P4, 1GB RAM and a 6800GT:

Painkiller
MOH: Allied Assault
MOH: Spearhead
Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix
America's Army
Unreal Tourney 2004
Doom3
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Enemy Territory

I can run all of these at 1280x1024 24/32bit 4xFSAA and anisotropic set to 16x, and they all run about as well as they did in WinXP Pro.

glxgears, while a cheezy benchmark, gets me around 13,000.

The one game that I cannot seem to get to run because the script says that it doesn't have the right glib library or version or something, is UT2003.

Is there a newer install script for newer kernel and library versions, that I can download and run?

I have a very similar setup, and I've had no trouble installing UT2003. What is the error exactly?

How did you install the MOH games?

I installed UT2003 on previous setups, and never had any major problem. Maybe post a more detailed error description!

Originally posted by Vir@s@Nov 23 2004, 20:26
How did you install the MOH games?

I would assume with WINE or Cedega, since I've never heard of native Linux clients for them.. but I'd like to know as well, just for my own edification. :huh:

I had MOH:AA installed a while back using this installer, http://icculus.org/~ravage/mohaa/ and it worked great for me.

Originally posted by Vir@s@Nov 23 2004, 20:26
How did you install the MOH games?

I installed UT2003 on previous setups, and never had any major problem. Maybe post a more detailed error description!

Cedega 4.1.1

I got Painkiller installer by copying over the entire Painkiller directory from my WInXP partition, and then just adding an icon to the executable from within Cedega.

Plays awesome.

MOHAA games I installed via Cedega, just make sure that you install the expansion packs under the same menu as the base MOHAA game or else it halts and tells you that the MOHAA base is not installed on your PC.

I will go run the UT2003 installer and C&P the konsole dialogue here...

Be back in a minute!

Originally posted by Vir@s@Nov 23 2004, 20:26
How did you install the MOH games?

I installed UT2003 on previous setups, and never had any major problem. Maybe post a more detailed error description!

When I try to run the UT2003 installer from a konsole as root, I get:

dave@linux:/media/dvd> su
Password:
linux:/media/dvd # sh linux*.sh
Copying to a temporary location...
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Unreal Tournament 2003 for GNU/Linux 2107.............................................. ........................
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

No UI drivers available
./setup.sh: line 104: 10127 Segmentation fault "$setup" "$@"
The setup program seems to have failed on x86/glibc-2.1

Fatal error, no tech support email configured in this setup
The program returned an error code (1)
linux:/media/dvd #

If I try to click on the file from konqueror and do it via the GUI, it loads a few pages and then just keeps asking me to insert the play CD, which none of the 3 discs seems to satisfy...

Any idears?

dave@linux:/media/dvd> su
Password:
linux:/media/dvd # sh linux*.sh
Copying to a temporary location...
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Unreal Tournament 2003 for GNU/Linux 2107.............................................. ........................
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

Two things: try copying the installer onto your local machine and running it from there, and before you run it as root, open up a regular user console and type:

xhost +

I already tried doing it from local, but I tried again using that command from the console:

dave@linux:~> su
Password:
linux:/home/dave # xhost +
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

Originally posted by SquireSCA@Nov 23 2004, 21:28
I already tried doing it from local, but I tried again using that command from the console:

dave@linux:~> su
Password:
linux:/home/dave # xhost +
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

No, no. Don't run the xhost + as superuser. Run it as a REGULAR user and then log in as superuser and you should be able to run the installer.