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Friday, September 17th 2004, 11:21pm

Future of *IX gaming

I have come to love KDE and find it in most ways superior to the Windows and Mac GUI's. I use Mac OS X 10.3.5, Windows XP SP2, and a Linux distro with KDE 3.3. I have found that though KDE is the best GUI I still can't get rid of the other two OSes. I have to use the Mac for school but more importantly I can't play most of the big-name games natively on Linux. I have only used wine on a couple of occasions but all of the reviews and articles agree that using games on wine requires a fair amount of tinkering. In the end, I would rather use proprietary games like Warcraft III and Neverwinter Nights than the cheezy games that you usually find for Linux. Sure there are a few well known titles for Linux but many require you to mess around with source code which is almost always way over my head. Linux can't kill MS without good games.

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Saturday, September 18th 2004, 2:20am

I agree, yet you must realise that we are stuck in a bit of a catch 22.

Firstly, 3d accelleration support, from both nvidia and especially ati are not up to windows standards.

Secondly, game developers are not willing to devote money and resources to produce linux based games (with the wonderful exception of ut2004 and the likes). Game developers will probably not start doing this on a large scale until there is a developed gamers base which uses linux. At the same time, a gamer would not move to linux unless there are games to play.

So, if other companies would take the wonderful example of iD software, HP, IBM to support linux in an active way, perhaps sometime in the near future we could have a linux gaming distribution :-D.

For now, i just want PROPER 3d accelation.
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Saturday, September 18th 2004, 12:59pm

As far as I know there is a native Linux version for Never Winter Nights.

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Saturday, September 18th 2004, 2:15pm

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As far as I know there is a native Linux version for Never Winter Nights.

Yes, that's true. There's a native one even though it's not marked on the game's box, at least not at the time I bought this game. I just needed the game CD and an additional free download from the Bioware site: http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html

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Saturday, September 18th 2004, 6:44pm

Graphics Cards

I have found it quite annoying that the major graphics card companies don't have their linux drovers anywhere near the level as their windows drivers. At least they could make a small attempt at getting some features in linux.

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Saturday, September 18th 2004, 7:06pm

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I have found it quite annoying that the major graphics card companies don't have their linux drovers anywhere near the level as their windows drivers. At least they could make a small attempt at getting some features in linux.

Actually, I find that the drivers have advanced by leaps and bounds within the last year. There is definately a marked focus on linux by NVidia and ATI. Based on the last year's progress, there is a definate momentum building. More game developers are looking towards Linux as well.

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Sunday, September 19th 2004, 1:09am

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Actually, I find that the drivers have advanced by leaps and bounds within the last year. There is definately a marked focus on linux by NVidia and ATI.


Definitely not ATI, perhaps nVidia. ATI has crap drivers.
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Monday, November 15th 2004, 1:08am

Yea, the nVidia drivers aren't too user-unfriendly. Too bad they can't be installed in X though.
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