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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: Giorgi on 1 February 2005, 23:15
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Hi all
I want to know if i can still play games like World of Warcaft, CS or Warcraft III on linux OS. And if no please tell why...
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every one knows about the tomshardware thing 'linux got game'
if you go to
http://www.tomshardware.com , read it, and follow the sitez in the sreen shotz, you can see if it is available or not.
mr X
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There are some that work. Don't know about those...but I've been playing UT2004 a lot recently.
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Check out WineX (http://www.transgaming.com).
I wrote a HOWTO on installing their free version in the past, but I never maintained it.
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UT2004 comes with a Linux native version by standard. Just browse the DVD for the sh install file :)
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UT2004 comes with a Linux native version by standard. Just browse the DVD for the sh install file :)
As does RTCW, UT, Quake and RTCW:ET is avaiable online for free along with America's Army. Just as examples of how Linux is a perfectly capable gaming platform :D
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UT2004 comes with a Linux native version by standard. Just browse the DVD for the sh install file :)
Or the first of the six CDs. :rolleyes: Incedently, it never asked for the 6th CD during my install, and I don't need one in the drive to play.
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I saw that program WinEX, it supports all the games that i want. I have a question anyways: Does that program slow down my PC?
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what sort of question is that?
the answer is this:
[size=24]NO![/size]
here's the slightly longer version, which people with ADD will tend not to be able to read the whole way through...
Wine Is Not an Emulator, is what WINE stands for. This is because WINE does this thing where it acts as an interface between linux and a windows binary application. whenever the application makes a call to windows, WINE intercepts it and translates it into a Linux call. whenever Linux tries to communicate to the application, WINE does the same thing in reverse and tries to convert the calls back to what the application will understand. This is analogous to those UN delegates who have their own interpreters.
This can slow down the apparent speed of the program, but it is in NO way slowing your PC down in any way. It is my experience in fact that linux runs as fast as a cheetah compared with windows (although this depends HUGELY on how you have it configured) on comparable hardware. This fact alone might well mean that your windows programs could run at the same speed or faster than they did under windows. but they could run slower too.
BUT your PC is in no way affected by WINE, no.
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On the subject of Linux games...today I got GTA3 running under Wine. You don't have to change much of anything!
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Your signature hurts my brain^
All you really need is Doom... everyone knows that. ANd it is quite easy to find a linux doom or "prboom" which is a linux version of that classic game.
It is really rather best to find Linux games and play them rather then try to use WINE in most cases.
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Your signature hurts my brain
Want me to take it off?
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I run World of Warcraft using cedega ( winex ) on gentoo linux and it is fast.
I've also tried the Doom3 demo and it work's good too.
The link for cedega is http://www.transgaming.com
:)
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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
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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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No, he DID have them installed, but hasn't since he upgraded FC2 to FC3.
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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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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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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.