UT2004 Demo won't start

[pofigster]

Ok, so, I downloaded the UT2004 demo (my roommate was practically frothing at the mouth waiting for it). I installed it via:

$ sudo sh UT2004...3334.run

This brought up the GUI like it was supposed to and the game installed fine. When it was done installing it asked if I would like to start. I said yes, for a split second I saw the UT2004 splash screen and the game started. I played a quick game and quit.

Next I tried to relaunch the program from the Applications menu - I again saw the splash screen for a split second and then ... nothing. No hang up, no crash, nothing. It was like I hadn't done anything at all.

I'm curious why that would be - any help on how to get the game to launch again? Do I need to log in as root and chmod the folder that contains it to read/write?

Thanks!

[rajeev1204]

Run it from the terminal and see what errors it gives .

Will help u better diagnose the problem

[Cappy]

Actually .. yes .. yes you do need to chmod your .ut2004 ^^ Bug in the installer if you hit "play" right after it installs.

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER ~/.ut2004

sudo chmod -R 770 ~/.ut2004

Btw when a program doesn't launch run it on the command line to get the error output. For instance:

ut2004

in this case.

[ShangTsungOmega]

here's my error message :

jerry@jerry-desktop:~$ ut2004
Can't find 'ini:Engine.Engine.GameEngine' in configuration file

History:

Exiting due to error

[Cappy]

try what I said above =-/