Gaming on Linux
Recently I made the switch, I put my money where my mouth is and installed gentoo linux.
Linux is now my primary os (for the last month) and so far the only reason I have found to boot back to WindowsXP is for gaming.
Well all that seems about to change. Id Software traditionally release Linux ports of their games, Neverwinter Nights is soon to be released for linux and I just discovered the UT2003 demo.
Installation was a snap (download binary, run binary, pick install patch, click next etc blah blah, just like windows) and it seems performance is just as good if not better.
I’m running the game with all options on full detail at 1600 x 1200 with Hardware 3D EAX sound on my PIII 1000, GeForce3 with 1GB RAM and I’ve heard tell of many systems with worse specs performing well.
Could this be the start of viable gaming on Linux? According to the UT2003 development team, the port was next to trival (though requires OpenGL rather than Direct3D) and they will have full linux support on release.
Here’s hoping I can format C: in the not too distant future.
Thoughts?
posted by booker · at 12:30 am · filed under News
One game working on Gentoo is too far from a C: format for my liking. Hasn’t Direct3D picked up popularity and appeal for developers in the last couple of years compared to OpenGL? (especially if it makes XBox ports easier right?)
If a Microsoft/media-mega-multinational owned and controlled DRM platform like Palladium takes off, then games on Linux will be a quirk of history…. sadly.