On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Michael Butash wrote: > Game friendly?  Yes, much more so of late, system and drivers are mostly up > to snuff.  Are there games to play?  Nothing mainstream... don't expect to > play COD4 or MW3 on it anytime soon. > > That said, I play lots of games on linux.  Minecraft (client and server), > Heroes of Newerth, Nexuiz, etc.  I also play some older GL games, Postal, > Descent1/2/3,, and some others that all work pretty decently even with crap > ati drivers.  There's always Wine, but it's entirely a crapshoot - there are > compatibility lists though at wine's site. > > Another thing of late I've been playing with are emulators.  Most old > consoles are supported decently, and just within the past few days I've > tried dolphin-emu (wii) that works pretty darn good (no surprise considering > wii's hardware is antique by most standards), pcsx (ps1) and jpcsp (psp). >  PCSX2 (ps2) only works right with 32bit linux kernels and jpcsp needs it > for the media engine (drm video in games).  They all have some quirkiness to > them, but with dolphin it loaded right up brand new Zelda Skyward Sword from > iso and makes any wii game look 10x better than it does on the console.  Run > 32bit kernels with emu's for a game system - gonna do this on my 32bit > xbmc/tv box but desktop is x86-64. > > Long and short is don't expect any big game vendor to support it OOB. Even > the most linux-friendly like ID Soft. doesn't even bother supporting it OOB > - Carmack may support it later, but there's no financial incentive to > bother.  Steam constantly hints and teases to support linux, but doesn't. >  There's a few other steam-like services that do have linux gaming, but it's > not titles you've heard of or expect. > > -mb > To add to that, most quake-based games should play nicely on Linux. Even if they keep the quake binary files locked up in a .exe or whatever, the engine should play nicely with wine for the most part. On the subject, Urban Terror is a lovely quasi-realistic shooter that I play often, with Linux executables available for download. www.urbanterror.info/downloads/ Also have a look at the Wine AppDB. A lot of Steam games, and the Steam client itself play very nicely. http://appdb.winehq.org/ > > On 11/22/2011 02:06 AM, Michael Havens wrote: >> >> I hate telling people that with Linux they won't be able to be a gamer. >> Is Linux any more game friendly than it used to be? >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss