Unreal Tournament GOTY; CPU scaling and OpenGL

[bob doe]

I've had to go through a Gentoo reinstall, and when I've re-installed ut, using the ebuild provided in the bugfix, when I try to run it I get this output.

$ ut
Unreal engine initialized
Bound to SDLDrv.so
appError called:
Couldn't initialize SDL: No available video device

Executing UObject::StaticShutdownAfterError
Executing USDLClient::ShutdownAfterError
USDLClient::Init
UGameEngine::Init
InitEngine
Preparing to exit.
Purging garbage
Unbound to Engine.so
Unbound to Core.so
-0.0ms Unloading: Package Engine
-0.0ms Unloading: Package Core
Game engine shut down
Unbound to SDLDrv.so
SDL client shut down.
Garbage: objects: 227->0; refs: 0
Object subsystem successfully closed.
Exiting.
Name subsystem shut down

Any ideas?

[Hyper_Eye]

There error is here:

Couldn't initialize SDL: No available video device

Have you tried switching to the OpenGL driver? Apparently the SDL driver is causing a problem.

[bob doe]

I've tried even compiling the game without sdl available, and also by changing the engine to OpenGL in both my ~/.loki and in the /opt/unreal-tournament directories and no change.

[Nimo]

Is there an updated ebuild for unreal-tournament GOTY somwhere aswell?

[PaulBredbury]

Yes, see bug.

[Nimo]

Thanks for the answer.

When using the ebuild on that page with my GOTY CD portage says this:

"Unsupported UT version detected"
"Continuing anyway but the game may not work correctly. It is recommended"
"that you install from the original CD or DVD instead."

And then dies when decompressing Maps/AS-Frigate.unr.uz


Emerging the standard unreal-tournament-goty ebuild in portage works, but the game isn't playable due to the speed bug with newer CPU's.

[Hyper_Eye]

Using the regular UT ebuild with goty edition cd won't work due to the the maps. I was previously able to install the ebuild and decompress the maps manually after the install (I actually made a cd with the maps already decompressed after the first time.) It looks like it just won't do it at all now.

[PaulBredbury]

Unsupported UT version detected

Try my ebuild, dated 2007-05-21 10:42, which was the last one before James Le Cuirot's rewrites. Anyway, debug the ebuild and add a meaningful entry to the bug. I won't be fixing it - I've switched from Gentoo to Arch.

Ebuilds will not fix the speed problem, which is a system configuration issue.

[truekaiser]

sorry to bump up a month old thread but i am having a sound problem with Unreal tournament.
with this card.

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00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01f3
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20
        Region 0: Memory at fe9fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=55mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
                Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000
        Capabilities: [70] Express (v1) Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
                DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s unlimited, L1 unlimited
                        ExtTag- RBE- FLReset-
                DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
                        RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
                        MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
                DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr+ TransPend-
                LnkCap: Port #0, Speed unknown, Width x0, ASPM unknown, Latency L0 <64ns, L1 <1us
                        ClockPM- Suprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
                LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; Disabled- Retrain- CommClk-
                        ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
                LnkSta: Speed unknown, Width x0, TrErr- Train- SlotClk- DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
        Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link <?>

and i am getting this.

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Bound to ALAudio.so
open /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
Audio initialization failed.

i never needed to set up any kind of software or hardware mixing on this laptop because it worked from the get go.

[PaulBredbury]

Bound to ALAudio.so

Read up on ~/.openalrc - see wiki.

[truekaiser]

Bound to ALAudio.so

Read up on ~/.openalrc - see wiki.

ah but thats the thing. this is a laptop(sorry should of mentioned this earlier) no 5.1 system here.

[niskel]

Regarding sound issues. I was having the exact same problems (same sound card too). My first sound problem was the one you encountered. I discovered that my KDE notification sounds were using the audio device when the UT window came up (I have notifications play through Sox instead of arts so that may play a part). Disabling KDE sound notifications fixed that problem.

[PaulBredbury]

no 5.1 system

You're still using openal. So set openal to use alsa with 2 speakers, at the right samping rate for your soundcard.