Unreal Tournament 2003 Forum

I had an old copy of UT2003 left over from my pre-Mac days when I was still using a PC. Rather than throw it away, I thought I'd fire it up on Crossover Games 8.0 and see how it runs.

When I first tried to play it, I could see the weapon and the HUD items, but I could only see vague-gray shapes in a yellow fog as far as anything else went. After messing around with the settings for awhile, I figured out a solution.

From the Crossover menu, go to 'configure' and then 'manage bottles'. Alternatively, you can click the 'manage bottles' link next to the little wine bottle on the Crossover Games screen.

Choose the bottle where you installed UT2003, and go to the control panel. Select 'winecfg' and click 'launch selected item'. Go to the graphics tab and UNCHECK the box that says 'allow pixel shader (if supported by hardware)'. The yellow haze should now be gone, and you should be able to see what you're doing.

However, more bad news. Mouse controls are messed up on UT2003. The mouse is out of sync with the game window, even in full-screen. Unfortunately, I have no solution to this beyond this simple band-aid: in the game, reconfigure your controls so that you don't have to use the mouse. It gives you a little less flexibility in where you can look (compared with a native installation), but it's better than having no control at all, and the game is at least playable.

This workaround no longer works in 9.0.0 rc2

What kind of Mac are you using? What kind of GPU does it have? What version of Mac OS X are you running?

You can try setting the useGLSL registry setting to either "disabled" or "enabled" to see if either makes a difference. You can add that setting as a string value to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/AppDefaults/UT2003.exe/Direct3D. If any of the keys along that path don't exist, create them with Edit > New > Key. I'm guessing at the name of the .exe file; if it's something other than UT2003.exe, use the actual .exe name, instead.

Well, we've made a little progress. Instead of looking like this:

It now looks like this:

Yesterday I updated to Snow Leopard 10.6.3.

I then did a fresh install of UT2003. I updated to 2225 (update patch). I also installed a couple bonus packs.

With no extra tricks, it loaded and the graphics display just fine in Crossover Games 9.0.

We still have the mouse issue, which can make navigating the menus a little tricky. In-game I reconfigure the controls so I can use just the keyboard and not the mouse, but it slows me down some. Still, the game is more or less playable.

I'll have to try to mess with the controls to see which configuration works best.