UnrealTournamentPatches VS dhewm3

Release Notes

For UT99, applying the latest official patch will update the server URLs for you: https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournamentPatches/releases

Download the latest Windows Patch from https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournamentPatches/releases, I used OldUnreal-UTPatch469c-Windows.exe (183 MB) from Oct 30, 2022. I imagine the Windows Zip File would work as well. Note I tried both linux tar.bz2 files but after extracting over my UT install I'd get the UT splash screen and then a critical error (UTMenu.SlotWindow), might have been which renderer I was selecting but I didn't experiment too much.

If you install the latest community patch (v469c) of UT99, it updates the list server already.

Just out of curiosity i tried to setup this game using OldUnreal and i was suprised how great this worked on my modern system. I really want to gather some friends now for some good old ut action.

UT99 GOTY online play is unaffected according to https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournamentPatches/issues/1132. It has a recent patch too, v469c.

Try the unofficial patch to get an original copy running on new systems.

It's still getting updates by the way https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournamentPatches

The installation is different from what you might be used to from your typical mod. Download dhewm3_1.5.2_win32.zip from the githup page, unzip it, then copy, as instructed by the WHAT_TO_DO.txt files in the base and d3xp directories of the unzipped mod the .pk4 files from the game directory over (d3xp is only there if you installed the Resurrection of Evil add-on first). You can then uninstall the game from Steam.

There is a source port of Doom 3 if you want to play it on Linux or macOS.

Why do you want to run old, buggy code through wine when you could use native dhewm3 to play the original (non-BFG) version of doom3 with Bugfixes, OpenAL audio and proper widescreen support? https://dhewm3.org/

https://dhewm3.org/ this may help with modern compatibility.

BFG has better out of the box support, but both versions are open source and as such the community has made source ports for both of them to the point they are essentially equivalent and you only pick the one with the features you want the most, last time I played was using BFG because RBDOOM3 added support for PBR so the game isn't so absurdly dark but your mileage may vary and may prefer dhewm3's more faithful experience using the original release

However, it seems that LibreCoop works with dhewm3 that has a fork that supports gamepads.

u/d10sfan has added dhewm3 source port for Doom 3 demo, ioquake3 source port for Quake III Arena demo and Zandronum source port for RetroNinjaCyberAssassin to Luxtorpeda repo. Thanks to that, native Linux versions of the games can be played as Steam games.

The games you mentioned, UT99, Quake 4 and Doom 3 should run just fine with OpenGL though (If you aren't already, use the dhewm3 source port of DOOM 3!). Consider using the Windows version of UT99 through Wine though, that might save you some headaches.