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UT2003 Demo Ready

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-your-twitch-on dept.

captainstupid writes "The friendly folks at EPIC have working hard getting a build of the UT2003 demo ready for release. The official word from Mark Rein (VP of Epic games) is that the demo is done and it's being uploaded to the Infrogrames site as we speak. PlanetUnreal has the scoop including snippets from the IRC chat log. The linux demo is on the way as well! Gentlemen! Start your downloads!" With Icewind Dale 2 coming out recently, who has time for a FPS? Update: 09/15 02:00 GMT by T : HyperMagma submitted a link to the Linux version (as found on linuxgames.com) as well -- thanks.

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  1. the linux demo is already out by tranqlzer · · Score: 5, Informative

    as is written on linuxgames, mirrors are here:
    mirror 1
    mirror 2
    mirror 3
    mirror 4
    mirror 5

  2. Mirror list by prestomation · · Score: 5, Informative
    Mirror

    Mirror2 There's no line for these mirrors, and I was getting over 300 kb/s :)

  3. Re:No Mac version yet by EastCoastSurfer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't think the raw market share percentages are what they are looking at when comparing Macs and linux. How many people who own *only* a mac are going to play UT? Macs bill themselves as the computer for people who really want to spend as little time as possible in front of it. Additionally, many of the game servers will run on linux. So even if they didn't release a linux client they still would have definitely released a the server.

  4. OpenGL by Trevelyan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    from the Linuxgames article (which is a rather good read) ...According to Daniel, the UT2k3 OpenGL renderer itself was extremely difficult to create, even on Windows. He estimates it was about an order of magnitude harder to write than the one that was made for Unreal Tournament...

    This is not good for Linux games support, OpenGL is an old/aging API compared to the dev speed of D3d. OpenGL also seems rather fragmented w/ all these EXT_ and ARB_ bolted on to it, to keep it current.
    I worry so, that if OpenGL 2.0 is finaly every released it'll be too late (which maybe way MS are holding things up by side tracking the ARB discussions about its (MS) patents)

  5. My mirror for the files by supertux · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've got a 150 megabit (like 10 T1s) connection that isn't doing anything today, so here are the links from my server.

    Unreal 2003 Windows demo
    Unreal 2003 Linux demo via ftp

    SuperTux

  6. Re:I Downloaded it Last Night by dinivin · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apparently, UT2003 (at least the Demo for Linux, but probably for Windows as well) requires an nVidia board to run.

    This is not true at all. The XiG accelerated servers now support the S3TC extension under Linux (and offer fully featured demo versions), and all Radeons support S3TC under Windows....

    BTW, there is nothing non-standard about the S3TC extension. It's quite well accepted and implemented on nearly every new (ie. within the last year or two) video card on the market. The issue of implementing support for the extension in the DRI drivers is a purely legal one, not technical one.

    Dinivin