Linux Issue....!

09-23-2002, 09:24 AM

Oki, boys and Girls...

Here is a request to all of you that have Linux installed and skiped Microsoft LOL

Is there anyone out there who is gaming on a Linux machine with any succes...?
Yeaa, I know that transgaming have there WineX...
have anyone make it work???
Please tell us more...
I think there is alot of users out there that would like to have Linux instead of Windows and still run there favorite games but have no clue how....

And here goes a request to Gamershell crew...
there is some games that is ported to Linux and there is alot of dedicated Gameservers just for Linux...
Please start have some rewievs on Linux ported games and servers....

interman · 09-23-2002, 03:37 PM

Interesting topic..

Tomshardware.com has a good article about playing windows games in linux. To make a long story short; it works, but the performence is crappy. You can read about it at http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/02...531/index.html

The problem about reviewing linux games is that most of the games that have been ported are fairly old, so it makes it difficult to compare a give scores that are fair. Luckily more and more new games are being ported to linux, so it would be a possibility in the future..

We want to support linux gaming, as you might've noticed from us hosting linux servers etc. One idea would be to have guides to setting up for instance a UT2003 server etc, where we could comment on what could be improved etc.

09-23-2002, 05:36 PM

Oki...

UT2003 have gone gold and are shipped with Linux support...
(server)
Soon will also the game come as a Linux version...
(still working on that)
Will come back with link on that....

Hmmmz, is that an old game???

Don think so....

I think that it is great that one company dev. a brand new game and direct-out-of-box have Linux support and it is even better when the name is UT2003... alot of hype around it...
have no clue why... byt anyway...
This will make a very good start for me (Linux newbie) and others that have put the WinXP cd in the trash...

What the we gamers need to do is to support the gamers with
report bug etc. otherwise I think Linux Gameing will be just like it have for MacOS. There is games for MacOS but as you said a few years old...

interman · 09-23-2002, 06:08 PM

Well, i did say "Luckily more and more new games are being ported to linux, so it would be a possibility in the future..". Regardless, since I will be reviewing UT2003 as soon as it goes public I'll do so on the platform where I can get it first. Most likely that'll be on windows, but it could be interesting to have a performence comparison in UT2003 between windows and linux.

Stabbe · 09-23-2002, 08:52 PM

Hey Ipex , Linux is crap Get over it

09-24-2002, 03:45 AM

Stabbe, you think it crap just cuz you don understand it...
(Just like me)

LOL

It would be very cool if you make the review on a Linux machine with Transgamings WinX 2.1.1 or something like that...

Yeaa,yeaa I know that the FPS will go down from about 120 to 80 or lower... Just some tweaking and then you will be up and running with even the same FPS as the windows system.
Ooh, and one more thing...
It would be really funny if too see if the Linux machine with WinX installed with UT2003 is just as stabel as the Windows system with UT2003...
if Not... just write it...
It will come...

Quake III Arena is out of box already for Linux and Windows so there are pretty good games out there already for Linux..

Why not do a review on gaming vs Linux with diffrent "emulators" like Win4Lin, WMware, WineX
It would be really cool to read that review....

cya

hiv · 09-24-2002, 10:23 AM

the issue is that installing these system is not as easy as regual windows (even if then they will not crash in the middle of a chat session...), and then before getting a game to run at full speed you have to optimize everything, probably to learn some scripting, they're great for the average nerd, though the average player barely can install a patch.

The review about one of the systems is a good idea, we'll see if anyone wanna try doing one, altough with christmas rush incoming we'll barely have a free reviewer

09-24-2002, 12:08 PM

Yeaa, sure thing....
With some money in my pocket I would gladly review it LOL

cya

09-25-2002, 08:00 AM

http://www.gentoo.org/

09-26-2002, 12:27 AM

Gaming UT2003 on a Mandrake 9.0rc3 with a GF2mx400, without
any problem. The machine is a XP 1700+/256Mb DDR/40Gb 7200 rpm. Only think you need to to is to get the drivers
from nvidas site, and it take less than 3 minutes to fix
it and restart X (not restart the machine)

My ping is under 10ms to nearest server. (100mbit to work

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