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LinuxRocks:
I'm a hard core gamer (FPS) and I find Linux to work just fine for me. I play all the Quakes, Dooms, ROTT (Cant even play that one on Windows), UT2004, MOHAA, and tons of others NATIVELY.
I play Half Life 1 and 2, American Magee's Alice, Far Cry, Diablo 2, Fallout, and some others using Cedega and they all work great. Cedega has a FAR better interface that using plane 'ol Wine, but it will cost you; $5 a month.
Gaming is not ONE of Linux's strong points, granted, but a hard core gamer like myself gets by just fine. I have not needed Windows for years now.
For the record, I have 2x GeForce 7800GTX (SLI), AMD X2 4400, 2 gigs of ram and an Audigy 2.
Linux plays native games FAR better than Windows does (On my box anyway). Games that run natively are much smoother in Linux; Windows might edge out in FPS scores (Very slight lead I might add), but its too jerky in Windows.
YMMV, however, depending on your hardware. I made it a point to get top of the line hardware so I can enjoy top of the line games while in Linux...
Joe
adiment:
--- Quote from: LinuxRocks ---I'm a hard core gamer (FPS) and I find Linux to work just fine for me. I play all the Quakes, Dooms, ROTT (Cant even play that one on Windows), UT2004, MOHAA, and tons of others NATIVELY.
I play Half Life 1 and 2, American Magee's Alice, Far Cry, Diablo 2, Fallout, and some others using Cedega and they all work great. Cedega has a FAR better interface that using plane 'ol Wine, but it will cost you; $5 a month.
Gaming is not ONE of Linux's strong points, granted, but a hard core gamer like myself gets by just fine. I have not needed Windows for years now.
For the record, I have 2x GeForce 7800GTX (SLI), AMD X2 4400, 2 gigs of ram and an Audigy 2.
Linux plays native games FAR better than Windows does (On my box anyway). Games that run natively are much smoother in Linux; Windows might edge out in FPS scores (Very slight lead I might add), but its too jerky in Windows.
YMMV, however, depending on your hardware. I made it a point to get top of the line hardware so I can enjoy top of the line games while in Linux...
Joe
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I'm gaming on Linux as well and play all those natively. However Cedega is from completition. On your system everything should run fine through it becuase with that kind of setup your eyes cannot see the FPS drop. With HL2 through Cedega I'm getting about 1/2 the FPS I get on Windows (AXP 3200+, OC'd 6800, 1GB)
However, gaming on Linux should not be considered as something impossible, If all you game is UT, Quake, Doom, Max Payne, NVM, ET, CS 1.6, HL1, WC3...etc you should be fine. But for new games like HL2, FEAR, FC, you'll most likely need something like 7800's just to get 1/2 the FPS you get on windows.
and yeah Linux does play native games much better, too bad there's not enough of those though.
What kind of hardware are you running? If you're running an ATI card and plan to game on Linux, that would be a very bad choice. :tux: If you are planning to go Linux, prepare to learn, it's much more different than clicking install and installing.
H_TeXMeX_H:
--- Quote from: etement ---and yeah Linux does play native games much better, too bad there's not enough of those though.
What kind of hardware are you running? If you're running an ATI card and plan to game on Linux, that would be a very bad choice. :tux: If you are planning to go Linux, prepare to learn, it's much more different than clicking install and installing.
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Agreed, Linux is a far better gaming platform than Window$, too bad there's not enough people developing for it :( ... another reason to get people to switch.
ATI blows in lots of different ways ...
As for the installer ... the loki installers work quite well, e.g. they almost always work without problems and it is kind of just click install and you are done (and put in the CDs). Some games can be more difficult though.
corvette:
--- Quote from: LinuxRocks ---I'm a hard core gamer (FPS) and I find Linux to work just fine for me. I play all the Quakes, Dooms, ROTT (Cant even play that one on Windows), UT2004, MOHAA, and tons of others NATIVELY.
I play Half Life 1 and 2, American Magee's Alice, Far Cry, Diablo 2, Fallout, and some others using Cedega and they all work great. Cedega has a FAR better interface that using plane 'ol Wine, but it will cost you; $5 a month.
Gaming is not ONE of Linux's strong points, granted, but a hard core gamer like myself gets by just fine. I have not needed Windows for years now.
For the record, I have 2x GeForce 7800GTX (SLI), AMD X2 4400, 2 gigs of ram and an Audigy 2.
Linux plays native games FAR better than Windows does (On my box anyway). Games that run natively are much smoother in Linux; Windows might edge out in FPS scores (Very slight lead I might add), but its too jerky in Windows.
YMMV, however, depending on your hardware. I made it a point to get top of the line hardware so I can enjoy top of the line games while in Linux...
Joe
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i can brigde two cards together but there is no need to yet so i am fine with what i have i installed wine on my laptop and it works just fine i play civ 4 and starcraft on that and there is no problem i will stay with windows until there is a good linux for gaming which i hope will come soon and i am running kopix i think its called on my other cpu and i am planning to start programmer on that since it is open source i am planning to make a brower and a cpu management program i hope to get started soon i should be done in a couple of months and i will piost it on here
thanks
corvette
Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: solemnwarning ---I have 1gig in my machine, and normally my ram usage is around 256mb
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With nothing running?
Shit my machine only uses 70MB when I'm running XP. :eek:
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