[ut2004] UT2004 on AMD64... no go

Joel Wiramu Pauling aenertia at aenertia.net
Wed Sep 21 05:36:51 EDT 2005


xorg of course!

On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 19:05 +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote:
> whilst browsing the archives i found the '-software' option
> which when used allows ut to run in all its software glory
> with sound.
> 
> so i can say that its working with sound. and that its
> something to do with 7676 and 6600gt.
> 
> are you using xorg or xfree?
> 
> (i wouldnt dream of running gentoo or worse yet suse.)
> 
> Dean
> 
> Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote:
> > Running fine here with 2.6.12 and nvidia 7676 driver, on an opteron 248
> > with fx5600.
> > 
> > If you copy over the 3355 patch, make sure to mv the ut2004-amd64 binary
> > in the System directory to just ut2004-bin.(however this should not
> > effect the game running... just it running as amd64)
> > 
> > What distro? Debian I take it. My advise is not to use debians amd64
> > it's a bit kak. Use Suse or Gentoo. Gentoo is really stellar on amd64
> > and doesn't take very long to build up.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 18:28 +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote:
> > 
> >>hi all
> >>
> >>ok trying to run ut2004 on my brand spanking new amd64 machine.
> >>its a packing a nvidia 6600gt pcie with an athlon64 4000+
> >>gig of ram, onboard sound
> >>
> >>anyway im running kernel 2.6.12 (from deb packages) and
> >>the nvidia 1.0-7676 driver.
> >>
> >>
> >>ut2004 installs nicely, figures ive got amd64 and installs
> >>i click the icon in enlightenment. i get a unreal splash,
> >>screen goes black..... nothing.
> >>
> >>ok check ~/.ut2004/System/UT2004.log.... blank
> >>
> >>reboot, run ut2004-bin-linux-amd64 > output.log.... same again, file
> >>blank.
> >>
> >>drop in the 3355 patch. same thing.
> >>
> >>reinstall the whole system to 32bit, same drivers and kernel
> >>exactly the same problems.
> >>
> >>gltron and tuxracer both run extremely well.
> >>
> >>as i mentioned the log files are empty. sound works and accelerated
> >>3d on other silly amusing games.
> >>
> >>please help! id prefer to stick with amd64 if possible, but trying 32
> >>bit was worth a shot. i think its a problems with the nvidia driver
> >>and the card vs ut2004.
> >>
> >>Dean
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 




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