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Refalm

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Re: Linux and Games
« Reply #15 on: 26 February 2005, 20:24 »
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I played Warcraft 3 and World of Warcraft under cedega, and Neverwinter Nights and UT2004 natively on my Fedora Core 2 box, but i haven't gotten around to installing the nvidia drivers on my Fedora Core 3 install since i updated

 Wow, so you're basically playing those games without ever installing the nVidia drivers?

Are the official ones already built-in, or is it the community driver?
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Re: Linux and Games
« Reply #16 on: 26 February 2005, 22:00 »
No, he DID have them installed, but hasn't since he upgraded FC2 to FC3.
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Re: Linux and Games
« Reply #17 on: 27 February 2005, 22:47 »
I have Steam running perfectly with Cedega/Point2Play.

Point2Play is a good GUI for Cedega(WineX), it does all the config work for you.
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Re: Linux and Games
« Reply #18 on: 11 March 2005, 22:57 »
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Wow, so you're basically playing those games without ever installing the nVidia drivers?

Are the official ones already built-in, or is it the community driver?


actually, since I upgraded to FC3 on my desktop, I haven't been able to install the Nvidia drivers (also, being curious, I can not install the Nvidia drivers on my FC2 partition (i have many OS's installed) once i upgraded to the newest kernel, so it's not a distro problem, it's a kernel problem i guess)

My laptop has an ATI card, and it can play (although slowly due to the 16mb card) neverwinter nights and UT2k4.

My conclusion: ATI community driver > Nvidia community driver, but Nvidia proprietary driver > anything ATI has

The only problem is that the Nvidia driver is a pain in the ass to install, expecially on my fedora box (i can post specs if ya want)

Are there any plans to implement the Nvidia proprietary drivers in a MAINSTREAM distro by default? i don't think fedora will because they don't like including proprietary stuff, but what about SuSE?

Having a distro that does this for me would be reason enough to make a switch (i go distro hopping once in awhile... about once a year to see how the competition is going)
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Re: Linux and Games
« Reply #19 on: 12 March 2005, 14:17 »
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actually, since I upgraded to FC3 on my desktop, I haven't been able to install the Nvidia drivers (also, being curious, I can not install the Nvidia drivers on my FC2 partition (i have many OS's installed) once i upgraded to the newest kernel, so it's not a distro problem, it's a kernel problem i guess)


Start a new thread about the nVidia problem.
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