Chaotic Dreams

Hello.
I was playing UT on Windows box but it was too jerky (ATI 9700 Pro) now I got the new drivers from ATI site and UT2003 runs awesome on linux. No jerks no lockups. However. I updated to the 2225 patch to get the Chaos up and running and I can play it but I can not hear any sounds. No sound what so ever. The sound works with the previous patch and without patches at all.

Some one else have the same problem?

Creative Sound Blaster.
ATI 9700 PRO (made by ATI)
latest Linux kernal (2.4.20.9)

Other games run fine: Quake III, Unreal Gold, UT1999 (with Chaos UT)

Any help would be greatly appritiated.
Thanks

Do you have sounds when playing normal UT2003?

Also, might check to make sure a setting didnt get changed when updating, like 3d audio or something.

Nope. The settings are the same. I did not use the updater though (can not get it to work) so I just unared the file and manually copied the files over.

Mind you, the sound works with 2199 patch (installed in the same way) but the Chaos UT does not work. I can see the weapons but the game segfaults when any Chaos (and only when) used. Any other weapons work fine.

By the way the Classic UT also crashes the game.
I have tryed all different combinations (I have a tarred up copy of my original installation from CD with no patches) and the same thing. Even without any Epic pack or DE pack the same thing happens: Apply patch 2225 and no sound at all. Not on menus not on the nVidia logo start up thing nowere. :(

Almost forgot.
There is another guy that has the same problem and he posted the same problem to Epic's forum. No replays yet.

It sounds to me like the ut2003.ini file either got corrupted or not updated correctly when you patched it. If you make a backup copy of it, then delete it, UT2003 should rebuild it correctly for you, then you can copy back in your settings (After testing to see if that helped)

Yes I do have a backup of INI file.

Which INI do you refere to? the one that is in /ut2003/System/ or the one that is $HOME./ut2003/System? (This is LINUX installation ;)

I did not / could not run the updator. so I copied the files from the .tar archive in the the ../ut2003/ install directory. (Previous patches were installed in the same way and no problems.)

Perhapd you happend to know what does updator put in to the UT2003.ini file? I perhaps can just enter it there myself.

Thank you.

PROBLEM SOLVED
Ok. I have tryed many things and since I have found what is wrong I want to post it here for the other people who have the same problem.


Linux patch for ut2003 REQUIRES libsmpeg-0.4.so.0 which is not included in the patch.

Without this lib no sound in the game will be played on your machine at all.

So google around for this lib and you will find an rpm or a tar.gz archive with it. this one: http://www.hklpg.org/RPM/libsmpeg-0.4.so.0.html worked for me on RedHat 9.

It is not INI problem and locki_updator will NOT work! This updator goes out to the net and is looking for pathches listed in this file: http://unreal.epicgames.com/linux/ut2003/updates.txt then it would scan the sites like this one: ftp://ftp.edome.net/mirror/beyondunreal/official/ut2003 listed there for the .bin file and it will NOT find it since there is NO .bin version of this update. The way one may update it is to get the .tar version form any of the mirrors and then just untar it somewhere on your drive and then cp -rfv ut2003-lnx-2225/* /to/where/ut2003/ . This will install the update but it will cause you to lose the sound if you do not have libsmpeg-0.4.so.0 installed.

If you look in the ut2003-lnx-2225/System directory (what you get when you untar the patch you download) you will see a file called Manifest.ini. Not sure but it looks like it contains the instructions for an updator program on how to update the Default.ini, DefUser.ini and ut2003.ini. Here is an example:

Ini=system\DefUser.ini,Engine.Input.F2=ServerInfo

Means: go to System folder and open DefUser.ini find
[Engine.Input] tag and add/replace under it:
F2=ServerInfo

So to be spiteful you may want to manually update your ini files. It is a pain's taking process but is not required to be pergformed to get the sound and Chaos to work (Chaos requies 2225 patch)

Game now runs smoother then ever and way way better than on the same machine in Windows partition.

oic... glad to hear its working for ya. Hope to see ya online.

I do want to say something of Linux
IT RULEZ BIG TIME

Win Xp is crap compared to Linux

It's a shame you can't play most of the games on Linux without installing Windows!

Deapblade wrote:I do want to say something of Linux
IT RULEZ BIG TIME

Win Xp is crap compared to Linux

It's a shame you can't play most of the games on Linux without installing Windows!

I do want to say something of Macintosh
IT RULEZ BIG TIME

Win Xp is crap compared to Macintosh

It's cool that can play most of the games on a Macintosh without installing Windows!
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Hehe, sry, I had to do it.

I have followed up on this with epic and they will be making sure that the updates for linux (and I assume for Mac) will be self contained from now on. All we can do is hope for the best, at least for now.

And yes. I agree with both of you about Mac and Linux They both RULEZ BIG TIME. :D

hey guys, let me sum it up for you... winxp is crap COMPARED TO EVERY OS- even DOS 3.0
You couldnt pay me to load winxp on one of mine, families or friends PCs.... EEEEYUCK!
Now, IMHO my finely tweaked and cared for Windows 2000 Pro SP3 is the GOD of everyhting

am i the only one here who really likes XP?

LoL, just when I start to fear a Mac vs PC flamewar. The PC guys brought it upon themselves

Cumbayah my puter, cumbayah.....

I agree: if you must have an M$ OS, Win2k is the way to go. with SP 3/4, you can run just about any game made for '95, it's fairly fast and stable, and it's... better than any other Win OS.

But Linux roolez them all.