Unreal Tournament & Linux

\"I dunno\' but A lot of Q,Q2 and Q3 servers run on admin boxes and lightly loaded web servers where normal serving is no problem. It\'s hard to justify 98% of yer box bein\' used up. So that 30% is all stanalone most likely. \"

For a friend of mine, with an overclocked machine running a Q2 server, it was also a matter of heat. The processor running at full 24/7 didn\'t seem like a good idea.

Poeple have had a bit o success running Unreal,StarCraft, and a few others using Wine, http://www.linuxgames.com has a HOW-TO or 2.

The reason that there are not more Linux Q3 servers is that 1.05 has a bug that
causes the game to grap like 98% processor, so it\'s
hard to leave one on unless you can dedicate a box to
it.
I dunno\' but A lot of Q,Q2 and Q3 servers run on admin boxes and lightly
loaded web servers where normal serving is no problem. It\'s hard to justify
98% of yer box bein\' used up. So that 30% is all stanalone most likely.

CC

WinE is a start, but a direct port would be better...

Supposedly you can run the Unreal client decently through WinE.

Unfortunately most games servers don\'t report the OS type. Quake2 and Q3Test servers do, so I use them as examples.

id Q2 Master, responding servers:

LINUX: 1055 56%
Win32: 804 43%
*BSD: 2 ~0%
No version shown: 8 ~0%
==================================
Total: 1869 100%

id Q3Test Master, responding servers:

LINUX: 169 30%
Win32: 319 57%
Mac: 67 12%
v1.02 LINUX: 2 ~0% (v 1.02, wtf is this guy thinking?)
==================================
Total: 557

As you can see, LINUX is used for a lot of servers. For Q3Test, it is in the minority. This can be attributed to many things. One that I would guess is that large reliable servers are sticking with Q2 because that is what the players are playing most.

This also doesn\'t look at quality of game. I suspect if you checked on ping + timeout, you\'d find a lot of LINUX servers high on your list. A lot of the Win32 servers are the servers-run-while-playing-on-the-same-computer (listen) type of servers that some l33t-ass user is running off his cable modem.

Unfortunately it is not easy to acquire stats. for Half-Life or Quakeworld servers. One could write a script to queso them all, but I\'m not up to doing that. I _like_ keeping my internet connection.

What word was that? \"damn\"?

go download Linux, if you spend enough time
here to make comments then you spend enough
time on computers playing games and fixing M$
problems to learn Linux.

If you haven\'t used Linux for over a few weeks/months
then you have no right to say its a server or a client
or anything else. get a clue, then voice your opinion.

Its a server, its a clients, its a hub, its a router, its a firewall,
its a jukebox, its a mp3 encoder, its a image manipulation
workstation, webpage design, programing, word processing
station all at the same time on a P166 with 64M and no
slow down, and it does it all for _hours_ with out
crashing, no really, I\'ve done that :)

about being vocal: in LinuxLand we\'re vocal cause we
love our OS, people are just as vocal in M$Land but they
are alway talkin about stuff NOT working. We are right

just cause some people can\'t write a sentence without
using one of George Carlin\'s seven doesn\'t mean they\'re
emotional and know what they\'re talking about *eh-hem #1*

Seein\' I do about 2/3 of the installs fix most of the problems, cause huge flame wars on
our LUG the PQLUG and run the *nix boxes at the local ISP(at least I get a free connection)
and run my own domain http://carnagepro.com.
Oh hell ... I work hard and yup there would be a couple of half-life servers here if I wanted,
but I don\'t. It\'s people like me put all them damn Q, Q2, and Q3 servers up. BTW the server count f
for Q3 went from 25 to 285 the night Q3 was released to Linux.

Snicker my ass puppy.
CC

#8: The local linux guru? *snicker*

About 54% of all Quake servers are Linux, id\'s figures.

I will be opposing the building of Linux servers for games for
which we have no client. As the local Linux guru I have
refused to build half-life and kingpin servers and Unreal will
be the same.

I don\'t know why anyone thinks we enjoy serving up games for
windoze wienies when we have no client.

Bot this stupid little comment box sucks hugely.

CC

#1 is the Leeto Burrito running Windows98 as a game host and getting it hax0red every two seconds cause it doesn\'t feature any \"real\" security. Even NT is lax compared to Linux/Unix.

It also goes to show you how much microsoft influences people.

#6
Amen.

#1
Shut yer hole. The more server options the better. Do some research and find out what some of the best game servers are run on. Here\'s a hint: Linux

Bah! screw this.. I\'ve been using Linux for 4 yrs. I was one of the KingPin Linux server beta testers.. but thats it.. I draw the line there. I refuse to run any more (new) linux game servers. I will always run anything made by id. But until these other Yahoo\'s start porting clients.. their servers can kiss my ass!!

85%? I thought it was 90%. :)

I\'ve heard it quoted around. Note that\'s why I put a ~ there, as in APPROXIMATE!

It\'s okay, there\'s a very easy way to test this. Gamespy.

Unfortunately I\'m firewalled at the moment so this will have to wait.

50% my ass. where are you pulling that # from?

85% of all statistics are made up.

Perhaps because ~50% of Internet game servers run on Linux?

It\'s a server, not a client. It gets you more servers to play on,
so why should you whine about it?

why do people waste so much time on linux? what is it like one half of one percent of the market?

seriously, just because linux users are so damn vocal doesnt make them deserve any more attention.