[ut2003io] issues with glibc-2.3

[Peter Kemmerer]

I had the same problems, here are what I found to be the settings that
work for me for acceptable and non-crashing Debian 'woody' (not
unstable) gameplay:

1024x768 or lower resolution
16-bit only
All normal details, except you can crank up the world details to high if
your hardware can handle it.
No shadows or blob shadows
Turn off the TouchSense Force Feedback
No screen flashes

I haven't had a single crash since I happened upon these settings, and
the game plays acceptably well for me.  If I change to 32-bit, I crash. 
If I crank up the resolution, game plays too slowly (P4-2.4, 1 GB DDR,
Ti4600).  If I crank up any of the details other than the world detail,
the game plays too slowly.  If I run shadows, the game crashes.  The
last two are just my preference to have disabled.

There are other reasons your game could potentially crash.  If you cat
your /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status file, you should see something like
this:

Status:          Enabled
Driver:          AGPGART
AGP Rate:        4x
Fast Writes:     Disabled
SBA:             Disabled

The driver could be nvidia, the AGP rate could be less than 4x (some
hardware/Linux combos need to have that at 2x or 1x to function without
crashing), but the last two should be Disabled.

I'm sure others here have some suggestions, so I'll leave mine at these
for now.  Good luck!

Regards,

Pete
-BeyondUnreal
http://www.beyondunreal.com


On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 08:20, Josh McKinney wrote:
> Is there any known issues with UT2003 and glibc2.3?  I am running debian
> unstable and am having problems where I can't even play one match before it gets
> all choppy and freezes.  If I am ssh'd into this box from another on the network
> I can see that XFree86 is trying to use all available CPU, and have downgraded
> to 4.2 with no luck.  I have patched UT up to 2166, and tried damn near
> everything I can think of.  
> 
> Thanks,
> Josh