raevol on 16/9/2008 at 21:48
Anyone here run Linux for gaming? I know that that last sentence is pretty hilarious, but in all seriousness I wish the game industry would pay more attention to open source operating systems. I dual boot, but the only thing I really play on Linux is UT2004. I've got my eye on (
http://openmw.snaptoad.com/) OpenMW and I played (
http://www.s2games.com) Savage 2 (a dissapointment) for a while, but other than that there just isn't much out there in terms of quality gaming, that I've found. Anyone having better luck?
demagogue on 16/9/2008 at 22:00
You'll be able to play Darkmod FMs on Linux (i.e., Doom 3).
Zerker on 16/9/2008 at 22:17
Despite being a more mainstream OS, the same sort of problem is mostly present on Mac OSX too, so I generally end up dual booting for games regardless. Natively, I just play games with portable engines (Quake, Doom, Abuse, Scumm, etc), open source things like Nethack, and various Dos games via DosBox. You might be able to find multiplatform downloadable software like the Penny Arcade RPG (but to be honest, I couldn't get into it) if you look around.
mothra on 16/9/2008 at 22:26
i got an ubuntu laptop but made it dual boot into xp.
on linux i only have darwinia installed (works flawlessly) and the scummVM with all its glorious lucas art adventures.
warsow and id games work pretty well but i never kept them.
WINE which lets you play win games, e.g. steam should work is a pain in the ass and for steam it requires the internet explorer to be installed as well which was why i turned to Linux in the first place !
The Alchemist on 16/9/2008 at 22:27
In before Alche ---- oh shi.
Volca on 17/9/2008 at 06:28
I've tried, but failed for more modern games. Thief runs fine for example, with some small tweaks, as well as both DeusEx titles. Bioshock is a no-go (from what I see in the winehq appdb).
Native games are fine (I enjoy XMoto, Nexuiz, Gweled to name a few)
Personally, I'm waiting for Gallium3D to bring the possibility of native Direct3D api to wine/linux (Without the Direct3d->OpenGL->driver translation path). I really hope NVidia will catch up with this effort and provide Gallium3D based driver, as it'll take some time till Nouveau will work for anybody but developers.
raevol on 17/9/2008 at 09:06
I'll keep my eye out for those Darkmods.
I don't use Wine, partly because I'm trying to make a statement asking developers to make shit work natively in linux, and partly because I dual boot windows anyway. May be a little counter-productive, but hey, whatever works.
I was excited about Nexuiz but the game is ugly! Ugly ugly! I find there are two problems with most open source games; lack of development or lack of artistic talent. Usually both.
Gallium3D sounds interesting, I hope it goes somewhere.
It really frustrates me that "PC Gaming" is controlled by Microsoft. If you asked any PC enthusiast in the past 8 years what they thought of Windows, they'd tell you it's crap. It used to be the only crap that worked, but that's not the case any more. Linux come leaps and bounds, and now sits just outside mainstream desktop computing as a impending threat, instead of a minor annoyance. I feel like developers need to wake up and take advantage of this, instead of burying their heads in the sands of habit.
*grumble grumble*
Yakoob on 17/9/2008 at 09:56
raevol, all your thoughts are idealistic and in no way reflect how the market actually works, or how it really looks like.
Volca on 17/9/2008 at 10:00
yeah, the situation is complex. The target for linux gaming is small, so even the multiplatform games publish linux version as an binary only to use with the data on the CD/DVD. But without games, most of the young will not leave the windows, and that means there is no need to publish for linux (to take it seriously).
This is why the wine project exists - to break this circle.
