Unreal Tournament 2004 is the sixth installment of the Unreal series. Strictly a multi-player game, but includes vehicular warfare and state-of-the-art graphical engine with advanced lighting, high quality textures and ragdoll physics. Many games were created with Unreal Engine 2.5 such as America's Army.
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Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Unreal Tournament 2004 in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the Anthology & Retail versions of Unreal Tournament 2004. Other versions may require additional steps.
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Mint 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.5
Wine: 1.6.2
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
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Look for the Wine Version: 1.6.2
Note: Try using stable Wine 1.8 and 1.8-staging
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
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Click Next
Downloading Wine
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Extracting
Downloading Gecko
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Installed
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Wine 1.6.2 is installed and you can close this window
PlayOnLinux Setup
Click Install
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Click "Install a non-listed program"
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Click Next
Select "Install a program in a newvirtual drive"
Click Next
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Name your virtual drive: unreal2004
Click Next
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Check all three options:
- Use another version of wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Click Next
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Select Wine 1.6.2
Click Next
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Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
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Wine Configuration
Applications Tab
Windows version: windows 7
Click Apply
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Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Check "emulate a virtual desktop"
Desktop size: 1024x768
Click OK
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Installing Packages (Components, Libraries, DLL's)
Check the following:
Click Next
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_dotnet40
- POL_Install_dxfullsetup
- POL_Install_tahoma
- POL_Install_vcrun2010
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Note: All packages automatically download and install
Installing Unreal Tournament 2004
Click "Select another file"
Click Next
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Click Browse
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Navigate to the Unreal CD ROM
Select Setup.exe
Click Open
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Note: I'm using the Unreal Anthology to install Unreal Tournament 2004. The original game may have a different executable
Click Next
Click Next
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Check "I accept the terms..."
Click Next
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Enter the game KEY
Click Next
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Click Next
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Check "Unreal Tournament 2004"
Click Next
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Note: This applies to the Anthology only
Click Install
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Click Finish
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PlayOnLlinux Shortcut
Select "UT2004.exe"
Click Next
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Name your shortcut: Unreal Tournament 2004
Click Next
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Click Next again
PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinux
Select Unreal Tournament 2004
Click Configure
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General Tab
Wine version: 1.6.2
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Note: Click the + to download other versions of wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of Wine.
Display Tab
Video memory size: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses
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Close Configure
Launching Unreal Tournament 2004
Back to PlayOnLinux
Select Unreal Tournament 2004
Click Run
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Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs
Optimization
Click Settings
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Click Display
Adjust Resolution
Adjust Options:
- Texture Detail
- Character Detail
- World detail
- Physics Detail
- Dynamic Mesh LOD
- Decal Stay
- Character Shadows
- Decals
- Detail Textures
- Coronas
- Trilinear Filtering
- Projectors
- Foliage
- Weather Effects
- Fog Distance
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Rule of Thumb:
High settings = More detail, lower frame rate
Low settings = Less detail, higher frame rate
Conclusion:
Unreal Tournament 2004 ran really well in PlayOnLinux. There were a few settings I had to lower in order to play smoothly on my GeForce 550 Ti at 1680x1050 resolution, but otherwise, it played GREAT!
In the future I may create a guide for the native Linux version as well. For now, the installation was smooth and setup was easy.
Gameplay Video:
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