[ut2004] any ways to get more performance?

[Gian Paolo Mureddu]

> Gian,
>       As someone who is always looking to tweak my system for optimum 
> performance I found what you said interesting. But I don't quite 
> understand what you mean by "Rename the 
> /where/you/installed/ut2004/System/libSDL-1.2.so.0 file". What should 
> it be renamed to? Do I just do something like
>     'ln -s /usr/local/games/ut2004/System/libSDL-1.2.so.0 
> /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.o.o.5' ?
>    Also, why does this increase performance?
>                  TIA,
>          Rick Belins
>
>
In order, you should rename the original libSDL from the UT install, 
just in case the one from your system for whatever reason fails. Do so 
by something like:

# cd /where/you/installed/ut2004 (in my case /usr/local/games/ut2004, 
have to be root)
# mv libSDL.so.0 ~libSDL.so.0
# ln -sf /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0.0.5 libSDL.so.0

If you've got OpenAL installed system wide
# mv openal.so ~openal.so
# ln -sf /usr/lib/libopenal.so.0.0.7 openal.so

In theory this increases peroformance because your system's SDL is 
compiled so it supports a wider variety of scenarios (like ALSA 
bindings, etc, etc) same goes for OpenAL.