Recently learned from a colleague that UT2004 runs perfectly on Linux – natively. Figured from Ubuntu forums, that it does indeed work perfectly.
What is this post going to tell you that others don’t? How to buy UT2004 online, download it and set it up on Ubuntu (without having to worry about a CD, because it’s 2014 and not 2004).
- Install wine:
sudo apt-get install wine - Get wintricks:
wget http://winetricks.org/winetricks - Make it executable:
chmod u+x ./winetricks - Install steam:
./winetricks steam - You’ll see something like this downloaded:
/home/$USER/.cache/winetricks/steam/SteamSetup.exe - Run setup with wine:
wine /home/$USER/.cache/winetricks/steam/SteamSetup.exe - If you didn’t change the path to install, launch steam with wine:
wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam/Steam.exe -no-dwrite(That -no-dwrite is important because the text disappears without that on Steam. We don’t want to use this for gaming any way, so this is fine).
- Create account or log in to your existing account on Steam.
(space) - Search for Unreal Tournament 2004.
(space) - You’ll get an option to buy UT for about $8 (real cheap right now) – buy it.
(space) - Download the game and install it (took me about 30 minutes).
(space) - Now copy (or move) this game from ~/.steam/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/ into another location.
(space) - Download the mega pack and linux patch bundle from http://www.utzone.de/forum/downloads.php?do=cat&id=19 (titled UT2004 Mega Pack Linux + LinuxPatch)
(If this link is dead, search the Internets).
(space) - Overwrite the mega pack and patch files into this other location where you moved your game to.
(space) - Install this:
sudo apt-get install libstdc++5 - Also:
cp /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSDL-1.2.so.0.11.4 /Wherever/Your/Unreal/Dir/System/libSDL-1.2.so.0 - Finally, get the CD key by running:
wine regedit - Search for UT2004 (and you should find a key with the CD key in it)
(space) - Copy this CD key into a file named cdkey that is placed in /Wherever/Your/Unreal/Dir/System/
(space) - Launch /Wherever/Your/Unreal/Dir/System/ut2004-bin-linux-amd64
(Some of these steps will change if you are running this on a 32bit system.)
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I did not come up with all these steps, so I’m linking all the resources below in case you need additional help/instructions:
- https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_under_Linux (for steps 1 through 6)
- https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=146223 (for “no fonts/text appearing” – the -no-dwrite in step 7)
- https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Games/Native/UnrealTournament2004 (for the mega pack installation steps 13 through 16 and 19)
- https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1572-EOPC-1358 (for the CD key step 17)