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gaming in linux ...perhaps better than mac gaming.

post #1 of 8
3/8/05 at 1:25am
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hello kiddies.

i've almost converted 100% entirely to linux, i still have to do some stuff in windows (about 3 hours a week tops....because my built in mmc card reader doesn't work in linux) even games are now played in linux...well..most games. so far i got americas army and CS1.6 working.

here is a screeny of CS @ work (cs_italy w/knife):


to answer your question..yes..the frame rates are VERY acceptable, i feel no difference between windows and linux.

i used transgaming cadega 2.1forSteam to get that working, as you can see from the point2play (gui interface for cadega) gui in the background. there is a list of over 400 recent windows games that could be ran, my next stop is HL2 and CS:Source, as well as FarCry and GTA:VC (i got it installed but it crashes)

as far as native linux gaming goes: so far i have Americas Army, very playable, very nice game.

i do highly recommend to get cadega if you're planning on any sort of linux gaming in the future...$30 for 6months membership is not a lot to spare for some windows-less fun in gaming.
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post #2 of 8
3/8/05 at 1:43pm
I second this. Beware that Nvidia is the vid chip set you need to have for proper Cedega support. I have been playing Half-Life 2 with an HP 7020 (Nvidia GO 5620), running Mandrake 10.1 and Cedega. The game plays just as fast as on Winders. I tried the Mac route and Linux really is the way to go. Trangaming does try their best to keep up with new games as opposed to Apple which usually is 8 - 12 monts after the PC releases.
http://www.transgaming.com

Alex
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post #3 of 8
3/8/05 at 2:32pm
Apple doesn't keep up with games; it's up to the software developers to do it.

The only reason gaming on Linux, on x86 systems, works is because the games don't have to be recompiled for new processors and you can emulate a lot of windows.
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post #4 of 8
3/8/05 at 9:00pm
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the rest of my config:
Distro: Ubuntu Hoary 5.04 i386
Vid Driver: FGLRX w/OpenGL 1.4.3 for XORG
Kernel: 2.6.10-ubuntu1.i386

hardware: see sig
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post #5 of 8
3/9/05 at 3:24am
Well, if Transgaming ported Cedega to Mac OS X, this would change the situation quite a bit. I haven't really used Macs enough to see how feasible it is, but now that it runs on BSD, the process might be a lot simpler. As it stands now though, Apple is scr***d in that department.

Also, a port of http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/ might help also.

If only more companies understood the benefits of going with cross-platform libraries (OpenGL, anyone?) rather than DirectX...

Regards,

zakaluka2.
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post #6 of 8
3/9/05 at 5:13pm
Cedega is just an optimised version of WINE. WINE isn't an emulator as far as emulating the processor, but it does emulate the windows environment, which is why you can use windows software on it.

To do this on OS X would require a CPU emulator as well as the Windows emulator, and CPU emulation isn't fast enough to play games.

Cedega and WINE only work on x86 computers.
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post #7 of 8
3/9/05 at 6:25pm
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this is becoming a mac thread. not where i planned for it to go

i wanted to say that linux gaming is quite possible regardless of what people say, and unlike with mac you have more options for which games to play (over 400 windows games with cadega)
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post #8 of 8
3/10/05 at 3:18am
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Originally Posted by abf
this is becoming a mac thread. not where i planned for it to go

You REMEMBER you said that next time you pop into a thread in the Apple forums and start flapping your jaw about Linux. Capice?

And yes, gaming on Linux is possible—so is gaming on a Mac, which a lot of people refuse to believe.
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