Updated UT2004 Demo Available

Coneasfast writes "A new Unreal Tournament 2004 demo is available. The new UT2004 demo has all the fixes and updates in the latest full version of UT2004, and also includes two additional maps, ONS-Primeval and CTF-FaceClassic, as well as the Instagib CTF game type. In addition, new demo servers are compatible with full version clients, so if you run a demo server, anyone can join it. The windows version is 282Mb, and the linux version is 77.2Mb." Update: Looks like the site is wrong, the linux client is 275 megs.

Re:Why the size discrepancy?

[wscott]

It's not. The linux version is 275 megs. Their webpage is just wrong.

BTW the first download link is a torrent that is maxing out my line at 351 kB/s with all seeds and no peers. (gotta love bittorrent)

Re:Please

[hawkbug]

That sounds like a major driver issue if you ask me. There is a reason I quit buying ATI you know ;) Seriously, not to start a flame war because I know people who have good luck with ATI, but I never have. I have owned several ATI products in the past, and each one of them seemed to have beta-like drivers for the entire time I owned the products. I used to like the AiW products, but half the advertised features never did work for me, always causing a crash, and it took months in between driver updates. I know ATI has gotten better about drivers in the last few years, but once I went Nvidia I never looked back because of their rock solid driver update schedule. I'm not going to say Nvidia is perfect in that area, just better than ATI.

Re:Did they fix the 64-bit version?

[RussGarrett]

It's an integrated installer - from the readme:

AMD64 vs x86:
If you install this on a 64-bit version of GNU/Linux, then you'll get the
64-bit binaries. Otherwise, you'll get the 32-bit ones. You won't get the
64-bit version unless you've got an amd64-compatible chip and are running
a 64-bit OS on that chip. If you don't know, then you're on a 32-bit
platform.

Please note that the amd64 binaries are considered experimental at this
time, as is the entire amd64 Linux system at the time of this writing.
We accept bug reports for them and strive to fix them, but we don't promise
stellar performance or stability. You have been warned.

And indeed:

russ@russ:~/ut2004demo/System$ file ./ut2004-bin ./ut2004-bin: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

Updated Mac demo also available

[dn15]

The original post neglected to mention that there is also an updated Mac version of the demo [atari-webcenter.com].

Re:Updated Mac demo also available

[Quobobo]

My bad. It seems like the 3D Gamers link is good, but the other two aren't.