Issues with Steam

Does it happen to other games or just JKA? Did anything change since you were able to do it last?

Keep in mind since I assume you are still using Windows XP (unless you upgraded recently), you're going to run into issues that won't be supported by the developers of Steam (or any other developer) because you're using an 18 year old operating system.

 

I recently got OpenJK to run on Linux, I'll have to post instructions later when I am sitting at my desk. I think @Rayce has also done the same at some point.

 

Do you still have your JKA disc? Since JKA isn't available on Linux, downloading via Steam is a hassle but it can be done via SteamCMD. Essentially all you need for OpenJK is the asset PK3s, so if you can load up your disc and pull the assets from there then that would make it much easier.

You can download OpenJK for 64bit linux at this link. If you need 32bit, this one.

You can make a new folder called Jedi Academy in your Documents folder, and create a Gamedata folder in that folder. Then extract the files from the OpenJK DMG to that new Gamedata folder. You also will probably need SDL2, which the process for getting that can vary across Linux versions. But try launching OpenJK before attempting to get SDL2 first.

The OpenJK team has a tutorial on setting all this up but it's literally the most barebones tutorial ever that it makes me sad. If you need to use SteamCMD, their tutorial lists the steam ID for JKA.

Hopefully that will get you started.

 

Yeah, like I said you just need the asset pk3 files.

 

I'm using Ubuntu 17.10 so it may be a bit different for you, but this is how my folder structure is set up:



And of course the assets1-3 are in the base folder you see there.

 

Its a cfg file in one of the assets PK3s. It means that it's not able to find the assets. If you set your folder structure like how mine is in the screenshot, it should work.