games

[Mike Hockings]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 02:34, Wolfgang wrote:
> 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
> [snip]
> 
> Wolf

The Linux installer for UT2 is on disk 3.  You may find that you have to
mount/unmount the disks manually.  For UT, Q3, etc. just google for the
Linux installers -- far better than wine.  With wine there are
instructions or pointers to instructions on the application database at
winehq

Mike