The state of Gaming on Linux

[bumcheekcity]

I'm a huge Gamer, and usually get the latest games within weeks or release. And, I'm looking at Microsofts DirectX10, and salivating. Just waiting for the first game to be released, and then will buy a nice Dx10 Card, to game on.

I really like Linux though. I mean, I like Vista, it's good, and It's been really good. User-friendly, stable and secure, but not in any way as fun as using Linux.

I know a program called Cedega can be used, and I know WINE can be used with some success, but I used Cedega, at a friends, and it was, to be frank, poor, and atrocious compared to Windows. I appreciate it might not be perfect, of course, because that would be unreasonable to expect. It's also subscription, which sucks, because in a year, it would cost me £36 to use something which isnt as good as Vista for gaming, which I bought anyway

So I guess I'm asking if there are any other programs for Linux which will enable me to play my games, or should I stick with what I've got, which is Vista for gaming and upcoming Dx10, and Linux for everything else?

[bigtomrodney]

I found Cedega pretty poor also. To be honest I find WINE works better when set up correctly. It's more manual effort at the start, configuring/installing dlls/install IE6 etc. but the performance seems to be much better.

Half Life 2 and Counterstrike are supposed to be officially supported games but although they worked fine for me in Windows they were slow and glitchy under Cedega. That said it ran pretty well under WINE.

Short answer is there is no short answer. I would pay a visit to www.frankscorner.org to check out the WINE tools and configuration there. Though if you are just looking for a good online FPS consider something like Wolfenstein:Enemy Territory or Tremulous. Alternatively check out your repositories for first person shooters. There are lots of native games of varying standards whichi are good fun.

[Radioactive_ape]

I am also a big gamer and new to Linux. I have come to love Linux but realize that if you want to play the high end games you need Windows. Though I have little experience I suggest that you set a smaller windows partition if you have enough hard drive space around. Even 20 to 30 gb should be enough if you just want to use it for games.

[tech_man]

Just dual boot and get the best of both worlds.

[dylan623]

Just try out Wine for compatible games (Doom 3), and dual-boot for the rest. I also suggest you try some Linux exclusive games (which I plan to do once my connection gets fixed).

[bigtomrodney]

I had really only started gaming on Linux in the last month or two and have been having a great time with ET, Tremulous and other more casual games like ActionCube and OpenArena. However this week I traded my PS2 and PSP at Gamestop for an Xbox 360. It actually cost me nothing other than the trade because of all of the games I had, and to be honest I think it'll be a while before I use my PC for gaming again. The graphics are unreal, the online aspect is great and it is very straightforward to play any of my (real life) friends in Gears of War or Project Gotham.

Before anyone says it, I wanted a PS3. I really did and kinda still do but unfortunately all of my buddies bought Xboxes first so I kinda had my mind made up for me.

[Molde]

Hello, this is my second post, new here, looking to install Ubuntu, and I play UT99 a lot. Looking for some suggests or opinions if others are playing UT99 and using Ubuntu. Thanks,

[dylan623]

Check out http://www.frankscorner.org/

[Molde]

I was looking for some info regarding dual booting Xp Pro Sp2 on one Sata drive, and Installing Ubuntu 7.04 on another Sata drive, is there any issues with this, I was just going to unplug my xp-sp2 sata drive, and plug in the new drive in sata, in another port, not the same as the xp drive, would'nt this work just fine, where I can just pick which drive I want to boot at start-up? I will try searching for any dual booting on 2 sata drives.