- Running Unreal Tournament 99 is quite easy to do on Ubuntu. I am running it on Ubuntu 24.04, but this should work on any recent release.
- You'll need the original game files.
- Copy them all to a folder
- Then visit https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournamentPatches/releases and download OldUnreal-UTPatch469d-Linux-amd64.tar.bz2 (assuming you're on a 64bit x86 processor)
- Extract the patch to the root folder where you placed the game files. You should now have "System" and "System64" folders.
- In the "System64" folder is the file "Default.ini", open it
- In the "[Engine.Engine]" section edit "RenderDevice" to "RenderDevice=OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice"
- Save
- In the "System64" folder is "ut-bin-amd64". You should be able to double-click it and it should then launch the game properly.
- Now I'm going to go figure out how to get a server going....
