games

[Wolfgang]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 14:41, Mike Hockings wrote:
> I could not get winex to compile on FC1.  Mind you, I did not
> investigate it much but when configured for the machine wine seems to be
> so-so OK.  That is, Windows games run but seem to need a LOT more
> horsepower.  My kids now have 650Mhz FC1 boxes that don't seem to have
> enough power to run Half-Life under wine (hl's requirements are
> something like a 133Mhz in Windows and it runs with no problems on my
> Win98 400Mhz box).  Now, I should add that they only have 8M graphics
> memory (SIS) but the results are still disapointing (more to them than
> to me :-)
> 
> On a 2000+ Athlon box with a PCI Nvidia card and FC1 the performance of
> hl is fine.  UT and Q3 is good but UT2 is sluggish on large maps.
> 
You don't need to run UT & Quake 3, using Wine, as they will run
natively on Linux. As does, Descent 3, Quake 2, RTCW, ET, Neverwinter
Nights, UT2K3 etc. (Unfortunately they don't have a Linux port of UT2,
damn!)

> Kind regards,
> 
> Mike
> 
> P.S. The Athlon box is dual boot to Win98 and UT2 would not install
> under Win98 (installer crashes)  their support tells me to make sure the
> machine meets the requirements or some such. Hah ! Go Linux!
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 20:46, Michael Gargiullo wrote:
> > make that winex
> > 
> > On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 16:14, tar.bz2 wrote:
> > > hello
> > > 
> > > I would like to know the best linux distribution to use games, since using 
> > > wine on debian and redhat9 was not very much convincing
> > > 
> > > is there sthing new on yarrow ?
> > > because really games are the only tiny thing that obliges one to keep a 
> > > "windows working on machine"
> > > 
> > > thanks
> > > happy new year
> > > Arkel
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Wolf