Kinda good news about my Red Hat!!!

[Ice-9]

Now this is troublesome!!!!
I just got home, a pile of printouts under my arm, ready to begin battle with my Red Hat installation ...
Those among you who read yesterday's thread know what I'm talking about.

I can't remember if I deleted eth0 before going to bed so I decide to check.
WOAH, it says eth0 is active, I check to see if I didn't delete eth1 by mistake (the Nic with the static IP for my lan), nope, it's definitely THE eth0 with the "cannot get DHCP info" kinda attitude.

So I fire up Mozilla, enter the url for this forum and BAM, I'm here.

Now, what's troublesome is that yesterday night, well this morning in fact, I couldn't get it to work and I swear that I didn't change a thing since.

So basically I killed a tree (or at least part of it) for nothing!
But it works, I'm happy fellows!!!!
Now I just gotta install Quake3, Quake2 and VMWare
and I'm set.

[Crunchy(Cracked)Butter]

If you install VMware does it run windows games like windows would do even when you are runing windows in a window anyway?

[Ice-9]

No it does not, for the fun of it I had Quake 2 running under VMWare but it only ran in Software mode.
You can't install a driver for you VGA card that addresses the hardware directly, at least that's what I've been told.

But anyway, void main once told me that VMWare would not be an option if I only used Windows for games and I tend to believe the man      
I think you would have much better luck with WineX, that's what I intend to try out next.

[CaptainCool]

dude I just got Quake 3 running last night it was easier then I thought it would be.
The graphics look just as good as it does in windows if not better but the fps seem to be slower. I got around 60 in windows but in linux it's around 55.

Now if I can only find a good file sharing program like kazaa.
I tried installing limewire but for some reason it just keeps saying I have no Java Virtual machine when I do have it installed.  :confused:

[Ice-9]

Huh, you had less frames in Linux than in Windows?
I had Q3 installed when I ran SuSE 8.0 and had 164 (or something like that) frames running a timedemo in Linux when I had only like 153 in Windows?!?
The only thing I will be missing is a server browser like Pingtool, the in-game server browser kinda sucks.

[CaptainCool]

What was your graphic settings set at?

Also what demo did you use?

[ November 26, 2002: Message edited by: CaptainCool ]

[Ice-9]

Here's everything from my settings.cfg that can make a difference when talking about framerates in Q3:

//Graphical settings
seta com_blood "0"
seta cg_shadows "0"
seta r_drawsun "0"
seta r_fastsky "0"
seta r_picmip "1"
seta cg_gibs "0"
seta cg_fov "115"
seta cg_drawgun "0"
seta r_subdivisions "20"
seta cg_marks "0"
seta r_mode "6"
seta r_vertexlight "1"
seta r_detailtextures "1"
seta r_lodbias "2"
seta com_maxfps "120"
seta cg_brasstime "0"
seta com_hunkmegs "128"
seta cg_drawrewards "0"
seta r_gamma "1.4"
seta r_mapoverbrightbits 2

//Sound settings
seta s_volume "0.8"
seta s_musicvolume "-0.050000"
seta s_khz "22"
seta s_loadas8bit "1"
seta s_mixahead "0.08"
seta s_usinga3d "0"
seta s_separation "0.3"
seta s_doppler "0"

//Hud settings
seta cg_draw2D "1"
seta cg_draw3Dicons "1"
seta cg_drawammowarning "1"
seta cg_drawattacker "0"
seta cg_drawicons "1"
seta cg_drawfps "0"
seta cg_drawtimer "1"
seta cg_lagometer "1"
seta cg_drawsnapshot "0"
seta cg_drawteamoverlay "1"

//Memory settings
seta com_hunkmegs "128"
seta com_soundmegs "16"
seta com_zonemegs "24

And I did a timedemo using demo "four".

[voidmain]

And having drivers to get X acceleration make a *huge* difference. For instance if you have a GeForce card and you don't download/install the nVidia drivers your performance is gonna suck. Install the drivers and your performance will probably be better than in Windows. Mine is.