Review of Linux Gaming Using WineX 2.0

Ceyx writes "Toms Hardware ist running an Interesting review of DirectX Gaming under Linux using WineX. An interesting point is that the native Quake3 Arena runs faster with Linux then with windows." I had the good luck to play Jedi Knight Outcast and Return To Castle Wolfenstein at my friend's house, and it was really pretty good. The numbers show just how good the Linux drivers from nVidia are, so mad props to Mark V and his co-workers ...

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Just think of it this way

[cscx]

Windows 98 Full Version : $100

20 Month subscripton to Transgaming: $100

New nVidia video card (cause you have to throw out your ATI Radeon et cetera): $150

Somehow this just doesn't add up. This makes as much sense to me as buying a copy of Windows 2000 Advanced Server so you can "run Apache on it." Just use the right tool for the right job!

Would you rather play Nintendo games through an emulator, or that NES attached to the TV in the corner?

WineX kernel module?

[sanermind]

I'll be content as long as the kernel module is open source. I don't over-mind running untrusted code as an untrusted user [occasionaly possible [but quickly patched] local root exploits asides], but kernel mode is ring 0, baby. That's bigger than root. I don't like the idea of a propriatary kernel module one bit.

Re:um

[Daengbo]

Probably, if fact, it's the drivers, not hardware. I used to run a Via socket 7 chipset that wouldn't boot windows with an AGP card. Hardware problem? Maybe in part, but the same hardware setup would run under Linux with no problem, and VMWare without a hitch. Ultimately, the problem for that setup was the driver-Windows interaction. Which do you blame?

Re:but WineX vs. Windows

[Tom]

your lengthy rant can be disproven with one line:

http://www.videolan.org

doesn't that make you feel a little stupid? :-)

Re:Not Exactly A Win For Linux

[Znork]

This is exactly why real documentation is, has been, and will continue to be, written in SGML. Maintaining documents written by hundreds of people containing hundreds of thousands of information elements in dozens of languages isnt done in Word or Office. I've yet to see any 'real' documents in Word; nothing that is even remotely related to actual products that are to be sold can be kept in formats so prone to time-degradation.

The switch isnt that hard. Junk the info and learn the lesson; people didnt write documents they wanted to last in lipstick on toilet paper before computers, and Word (or other word processing formats) are the computerized equivalent of lipstick on toilet paper.

You might lose a lot of formatting info, but that's the price you've got to pay. In education the old phrase 'do it again, and do it right this time' should carry some weight.

Yet another example of the DMCA sucking

[dh003i]

This is yet another example of a good project being hindered by the meritless DMCA. Because they feel that it would be against the DMCA for them to open up their source, due to copy-protection crap, they have to split from the LGPL'ed project.

Yep, that DMCA sure is helping innovation.

Yet Another Win For Linux

[MsGeek]

throw away key pieces of software which are vital to their business like PDF generation

Here's another fun way to use Linux to eliminate yet another proprietary solution, kids!

1. Save file you want to convert to a PDF as a Postscript (.PS) file.
2. Use ps2pdf to magickally convert the .PS file to a full-fledged .PDF file.

You wind up with a proper .PDF, openable in Acrobat Reader, that is made without tithing to Adobe! W00t! Linux wins again.