/vr/ - Retro Games

I spent the past few days wasting precious hours of my free time, agonizing over why I couldn't get Unreal Gold working on my server box. No matter what, launching UCC would just say "MissingINI, fuck you asshole," and there were so many red herring leads to try to figure out as to why it wasn't working (e.g. creating a ~/.Unreal/System folder but with no ini files, but if you put some in there, it still didn't work)

Turns out, unlike how on Windows--where if you run the client on the latest patch, you can use Unreal.exe within the separate System64 folder instead of System--the solution was just to copy the contents of SystemARM into System instead of running it separately. Nothing online really alluded to this, as again, that's not how running the amd64 64-bit release worked. It was just a longshot, as the only other case was someone running UT2004 outside of System and getting the same result from a different issue.

I relay this both to express my intense rage and annoyance, but also that, if some poor chap ever decides to run Unreal Gold as well, this might somehow appear in one of the searches. On the surface, it seems like a simple solution, by bah gawd, that just wasn't how it was supposed to go down.