Native Urban Terror on FreeBSD

Welcome to 2023 and let me start a first article of this new year with a … guest post by @NeoMoevius from Twitter. That is right. I did not invented it. I did not created it. I only partially wrote it – treat me as a ghost writer here. ll the thanks and welcomes goes directly to @NeoMoevius – I am just a messenger here 🙂

This post will be about playing (and first building – of course) the Urban Terror game on FreeBSD system. It is about how to build and install Urban Terror 4.3 on FreeBSD without Linux emulation or using WINE. Natively. This will be on the latest and supported FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE system.

There are not many steps to make it happen. First – just download the official Urban Terror ZIP file.

% mkdir _UT
% cd _UT
% fetch http://cdn.urbanterror.info/urt/43/releases/zips/UrbanTerror434_full.zip
UrbanTerror434_full.zip                         3% of 1403 MB 1836 kBps 11m38s
% unzip UrbanTerror434_full.zip
% cd UrbanTerror43
% pwd
/home/vermaden/_UT/UrbanTerror43

Lets leave that alone for now 🙂

We will also need to install some dependencies.

# pkg install -y \
    devel/sdl20 \
    devel/pkgconf \
    devel/gmake \
    ftp/curl \
    graphics/sdl2_image \
    graphics/sdl2_ttf \
    audio/sdl2_mixer \
    audio/openal-soft

We will now need to download and compile source code of ioquake 3 for Urban Terror.

% mkdir _IOQ3
% cd _IOQ3
% git clone https://github.com/mickael9/ioq3.git
Cloning into 'ioq3'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 28169, done.
Receiving objects:  19% (5353/28169), 6.77 MiB | 2.24 MiB/s
% cd ioq3
% gmake
% echo ${?}
0
% cd build/release-freebsd-x86_64
% ls -l
total 2773K
drwxr-xr-x 2 vermaden vermaden       2 2023-01-20 20:11 autoupdater/
drwxr-xr-x 4 vermaden vermaden     228 2023-01-20 20:12 client/
drwxr-xr-x 2 vermaden vermaden     154 2023-01-20 20:11 ded/
drwxr-xr-x 2 vermaden vermaden     166 2023-01-20 20:12 renderergl1/
drwxr-xr-x 3 vermaden vermaden      77 2023-01-20 20:12 renderergl2/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 vermaden vermaden  862712 2023-01-20 20:12 renderer_opengl1_x86_64.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 vermaden vermaden 1143552 2023-01-20 20:12 renderer_opengl2_x86_64.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 vermaden vermaden 2133400 2023-01-20 20:12 urbanterror-m9.x86_64
-rwxr-xr-x 1 vermaden vermaden  970368 2023-01-20 20:11 urbanterror-server-m9.x86_64

The files that are interesting for us are listed below:

• renderer_opengl1_x86_64.so
• renderer_opengl2_x86_64.so
• urbanterror-m9.x86_64
• urbanterror-server-m9.x86_64

… and now you will need to copy these four files into the Urban Terror folder when you have uncompressed the game.

% cp \
    renderer_opengl1_x86_64.so   \
    renderer_opengl2_x86_64.so   \
    urbanterror-m9.x86_64        \
    urbanterror-server-m9.x86_64 \
    /home/vermaden/_UT/UrbanTerror43

% cd /home/vermaden/_UT/UrbanTerror43

% pwd
/home/vermaden/_UT/UrbanTerror43

% ls -l
total 8495K
drwxr-xr-x 2 vermaden vermaden      30 2023-01-20 20:19 q3ut4/
drwxr-xr-x 3 vermaden vermaden       3 2023-01-20 20:19 Quake3-UrT.app/
-rw-r--r-- 1 vermaden vermaden 1082800 2018-06-21 22:08 Quake3-UrT-Ded.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 vermaden vermaden  816002 2018-06-21 22:08 Quake3-UrT-Ded.i386
-rwxr-xr-x 1 vermaden vermaden  961958 2018-06-21 22:08 Quake3-UrT-Ded.x86_64
-rw-r--r-- 1 vermaden vermaden 2634689 2018-06-21 22:08 Quake3-UrT.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 vermaden vermaden 1702624 2018-06-21 22:08 Quake3-UrT.i386
-rwxr-xr-x 1 vermaden vermaden 1940280 2018-06-21 22:08 Quake3-UrT.x86_64
-rwxr-xr-x 1 vermaden vermaden  862712 2023-01-20 20:20 renderer_opengl1_x86_64.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 vermaden vermaden 1143552 2023-01-20 20:20 renderer_opengl2_x86_64.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 vermaden vermaden 2133400 2023-01-20 20:20 urbanterror-m9.x86_64
-rwxr-xr-x 1 vermaden vermaden  970368 2023-01-20 20:20 urbanterror-server-m9.x86_64

We will now try to start that Urban Terror game.

% pwd
/home/vermaden/_UT/UrbanTerror43

% ./urbanterror-m9.x86_64
ioq3-UrT m9-builds/31 freebsd-x86_64 Jan 20 2023
SSE instruction set enabled
----- FS_Startup -----
We are looking in the current search path:
/home/vermaden/.q3a/q3ut4
./q3ut4
./q3ut4/zUrT43_qvm.pk3 (4 files)
./q3ut4/zUrT43_021.pk3 (85 files)
./q3ut4/zUrT43_020.pk3 (295 files)
./q3ut4/zUrT43_019.pk3 (342 files)
./q3ut4/zUrT43_018.pk3 (801 files)
(...)

Seems to start and work properly.

Here are several shots of what I tried to play it for some single online event.

All the screens above are in the windowed more but you can switch between window and full screen with [ALT]+[ENTER] shortcut at anytime. It was just easier for me to catch several shots for this article 🙂

Seems I am definitely not the best at this game :p

The Urban Terror game run smooth on my Intel HD Graphics 3000 card.

Fortunately I did not need to switch BIOS settings to start my decade old Nvidia Quadro 2000M monster :p

Not sure what I can add here – definitely a kind thank You for @NeoMoevius for his offer of making this content available for You 🙂

Regards.