Gamers that use Linux.. tHis is for u....


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Hi everyone,

I was just curious how many PC Gamers actually use linux to play their games using WINEX or other emulators. IF so what distros.. what problems have u overcome and how do u find the experience? Do the latest games like Battlefield Vietnam and Farcry work? Would you reccomend it since it is a better OS than bloody WINDOWS for a gamer and other gamers like myself? Thanks.

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Well, to be able to use Linux as a gaming OS, you need to accept the fact that the latest games will most likely not work in winex at first. Luckily, a few good games like unreal 2004 come with a linux version on the cd.

For my "gaming rig" i use arch linux (fast. 686 optimized etc.). I also chose to use a nvidia card in it, because the drivers are better. Ati is real crap when it comes to linux drivers, compared to nvidia.

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Solitaire works on linux. :unsure:

LMAO

Return To Castle Wolfenstein

Return To Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Terriroty

America's Amry: Special Forces

Unreal Tournament 2003 and 2004

Tux Racer!

Tribes 1 & 2 (i think)

All have native linux versions...

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Remember that WineX are not good for the Linux community. They forked Wine as soon as it became LGPL and they have not contributed any code back since offically.

Personally I can play most of my games via normal WINE with a bit of tweaking as seen here: www.frankscorner.com

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I find, In general, if its OpenGL rendered, life is happy...

But if it's DirectX 9... well, its the funny thing about these microsoft render-ers..... but they don't play well with linux :)

but if the game doesnt have a native linux version.... then its obviously not cool 'nough to play. :laugh: :happy:

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Ok... I knew that one day, a post like this would appear and here I GO :devil: :

First off, you have an nVidia or ATI card? It does make a difference. Current nVidia drivers are far superior compared to the ATI ones when we're talking about optimization. I've read stories of TI4600 cards running UT 2004 faster than a 9800XT and similar. The reason is, you need to find ways to optimize 3d performance if you have an ati card (going thru ur configs and thru the modules of fglrx). This doesn't mean ATI owners should fear linux for gaming since a lot of people run most games faster on linux than windows. It's a matter of finding the right drivers whether their new or old (old drivers from ATI were faster apparently for example). If you have an nVidia card, then you don't need to worry with any of this AFAIK.

Ok... so you decided that you're gonna run linux and try some of your favorite games. You are wondering which games? here's what I know.

ALL of ID Software games run on linux. Quake 1, 2 3, RTCW, RTCW: Enemy Territory (SplashDamage in association with ID)

EPIC GAMES. UT 2003 & UT 2004 provide Linux Installers on their cd's! (love companies who do that)

BioWare: NeverWinter Nights

As for the rest, which is most games lol, you have to rely on WINE or WineX. First thing is to look thru the database of winehq and see if you can find the game that you are trying to run. If yes, consider trying to install wine since they offer formats for several type of distributions (.rpm, .deb, .tgz...). If you fail to find the specific game, considering looking thru winex's database and if you notice that indeed, the game is supported, then you have use their CVS Snapshots since that's the only way of getting WineX for free.

Last resort... really considering dualbooting with windows lol. I enjoy seeing people breaking their heads in half to make a game work which runs fine on windows. I could go on about why keeping windows has its advantages but I won't. Problem is, XFree86 is old and tired but it won't die! FreeDesktop.org will make life simpler for us you can bet your last dollar! (read about it).

I run linux and play games based on the quake 3 engine and then, the evil windows partition for all my other games and Visual Studio .NET.

to sum it up: If the company don't provide linux clients, you're better off keeping windows somewhere if the number of unsupported games you own is large.

PHRT!!!!!! :x

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LMAO

Return To Castle Wolfenstein

Return To Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Terriroty

America's Amry: Special Forces

Unreal Tournament 2003 and 2004

Tux Racer!

Tribes 1 & 2 (i think)

All have native linux versions...

Tux racer does ?

WOW

:p

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Remember that WineX are not good for the Linux community. They forked Wine as soon as it became LGPL and they have not contributed any code back since offically.

Personally I can play most of my games via normal WINE with a bit of tweaking as seen here: www.frankscorner.com

Well, WineX have helped many people fully switch to linux, so in my opinion it has done more good than bad.

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^^^^^ WineX is fine. Welcome to the world of the LGPL. You don't HAVE to share code.

As for gaming, I find it's been a decent experience.

I'm not going to argue the driver wars with people. If you want a good Linux box, you get hardware with good Linux support: ie. in the video card arena, you're looking at the older 3dfx/STB Voodoo or ATI Radeon VE cards or the king-of-Linux-support Matrox. Who cares if a Matrox G450 AGP pushes glxgears at 700fps in 16-bit with DRI. It's got some of the best 2D acceleration support on the market as well. (Stats from XFree86 4.2.0 compare - I couldn't find 4.3.0 numbers).

If you have WineX, you can run pretty reliably. I've gotten MechWarrior 4 running without issue in the past. I haven't kept up with games in the last year or two though, so I could be wrong. Hell, I still primarily play Starcraft (on it's own X display, so I can hop between F7 desktop and F8 Starcraft fullscreen - quite nice).

End rambling. Time to sleep [3am].

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