Re: The Perfect Linux gaming Box

2007-07-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 01:46:45PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/27/07 11:34, Orestes leal wrote: > >Hi Folks, > > > >I want that some of the members of the group comments something > >about hard core gaming boxes under Linux, what kind of configuration > >I need to play *ALL* Titles and *ALL*

Re: The Perfect Linux gaming Box

2007-07-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/27/07 11:34, Orestes leal wrote: Hi Folks, I want that some of the members of the group comments something about hard core gaming boxes under Linux, what kind of configuration I need to play *ALL* Titles and *ALL* forms of games, 3d games like Doom3, etc in linux with a performance closely

Re: The Perfect Linux gaming Box

2007-06-29 Thread Nick Lidakis
Orestes leal wrote: Hi Folks, I want that some of the members of the group comments something about hard core gaming boxes under Linux, what kind of configuration I need to play *ALL* Titles and *ALL* forms of games, 3d games like Doom3, etc in linux with a performance closely like win32 and Dir

Re: The Perfect Linux gaming Box

2007-06-27 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed, 2007-27-06 at 12:34 -0400, Orestes leal wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I want that some of the members of the group comments something > about hard core gaming boxes under Linux, what kind of configuration > I need to play *ALL* Titles and *ALL* forms of games, 3d games like > Doom3, etc in linux

The Perfect Linux gaming Box

2007-06-27 Thread Orestes leal
Hi Folks, I want that some of the members of the group comments something about hard core gaming boxes under Linux, what kind of configuration I need to play *ALL* Titles and *ALL* forms of games, 3d games like Doom3, etc in linux with a performance closely like win32 and DirectX. NOTE: CPU, VGA,

Re: Linux Gaming (Was: Full replacement of MS)

2004-11-29 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
If you have nVidia. ATI, you're left in the cold. I bought a Transgaming subscription when they announced support for City of Heroes. It's not 3 months later and I've not played one second of City of Heroes. In fact I've not even made it to the login screen. I've complained about it sever

Linux Gaming (Was: Full replacement of MS)

2004-11-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: On Monday 29 November 2004 5:31 pm, you wrote: I agree I got fed up with WinXP and wiped it 3 months ago. There is very little you cant do on linux. the only thing that I miss is graphic-intensive gaming.. Same here. That's the only reason my game machine is Win2k as th

Re: Linux Gaming

2002-06-01 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Sat, 01 Jun 2002 12:44:31 -0700 "Paul Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not really a gamer but have you tried these on Wine? With Wine on > my machine many Windoze apps just install and run automatically. While Wine is amazing in what it can do, it's not yet ready to allow for the nati

Re: Linux Gaming

2002-06-01 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 04:27:52AM -0700, ben wrote: thanks. i appreciate the time you put into the response. quake III is the key. if i can get that running on my machine, then half the battle is won. I'm not really a gamer

Re: Linux Gaming

2002-06-01 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002 04:27:52 -0700 "ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > am i correct in assuming that, in the game world, there ain't no such > thing as free beer, and that linux gaming requires buying m$ versions > for the data files required? This depends on the gam

Re: Linux Gaming

2002-06-01 Thread Paul Johnson
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Re: Linux Gaming

2002-06-01 Thread ben
py the data files off the CD to the drive, and then you don't > have to carry around a box of CDs to deal with the anti-piracy BS the > Windows folks have to deal with on a lot of those games. > > UT, Quake III and Return to Castle Wolfenstein is like crack, adrenaline > and caffine t

Linux Gaming

2002-06-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 12:26:48AM -0700, ben wrote: > send me a list of what he'd need to do the same, and i'll work on enabling > the transition. At the time I did this, I was taking a PII 450 with a 15GB drive, 100MB RealTek nic, and a nVidia GeForce2 AGP and 256MB of RAM. More is better on