S3TC in Unreal Tournament?

[FallNAngel]

Hello --
I've read in a few places that it's possible to run Unreal Tournament in Linux with S3TC textures when you use the 436 patch. Other people say it's broken in 436. Which is it? I'm running a GeForce 2 GTS 32M DDR and would really like to try the better graphics. I tried getting it to work myself, but I'm not sure if I did something wrong, as my UT install is a bit hosed right now. So what's the verdict? If anyone could point me to a doc or HOWTO on how to get it running I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

[Inctoan]

It still works after you copied the textures off the second CD, here's the link to the FAQ http://faqs.lokigames.com/faq.php3?view=faq&product=UT&faq_notes=5&faq_id=12
Have fun!

[FallNAngel]

kickass man, thanks!

[Daedra]

Im running them myself, there Unbelievable, once you get it working, check out the earth texture on CTF-FACE "facing worlds" level

:D

[TheGimp]

UT has the best usage of Texture Compression I've ever seen :cool:

[FallNAngel]

Personally, I like the crates on DM-Oblivion ... the S3TC textures look awesome.. too bad I have to be at a lower res to run it online well.. otherwise the game starts choking on some of the larger levels. Oh well, still looks awesome.

[mandreko]

what are S3TC textures? i play ut, and i've never heard of them...

[TheGimp]

look at this article (http://www.daytonsmisc.com/article12.htm)

[armando86]

Can I use S3Tc with my Voodoo 3 or is it only for GeForce boards?

[FallNAngel]

only cards that support it. Right now S3 supports it natively and NVidia cards can support it with a modified driver (in windows) or with the nvidia drivers in linux. So to answer your question, no, your voodoo can not do S3TC.