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Review of Linux Gaming Using WineX 2.0

Posted by chrisd on from the i-am-your-parent-process-luke dept.

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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  1. but WineX vs. Windows by Frizzled · · Score: 4, Interesting

    unfortunately, wineX doesn't see the same performance boost (windows2000 beats it):

    http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/02q2/020531/wind ows_gaming-05.html

    funny how the frame rate is capped at 50 for all resolutions though. it seems more like something is artificially keeping it there.

    _f

  2. Learn from this..... by reaper20 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've said this before, and I'll say it again. Wine and its a derivatives are a neat hack - but using this stuff is like having sex with 4 condoms on. We want good performance for Linux games - BUY THE LINUX VERSION.

    Neverwinter Nights is a perfect example of how a game should be (er, will be) published - cross-platform, same box. I've prebought it already.

    We should be supporting the game companies that port to Linux instead of trying to get games working at 50% of the performance of Windows.

  3. No conspiracy, just no "Linux game market" by AHumbleOpinion · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... we'll have producers, that make multiplatform games (ID for example). However Most producers will stay away from Linux. Why? They are in bed with MS

    You are delusional. Even Id has publicly stated, Game Developer Magazine, that Linux games do not make business sense, that they support various Unix platforms because they think it is cool to do so.

    The primary reason companies do not target Linux is that there is no new market, no new sales. Linux gamers are already buying the Win32 version and dual booting or emulating. Porting to Linux would not generate a new sale, it would replace a Win32 sale with a Linux sale, no point in doing that.

    The "Linux game market" only consists of those people who refuse to dual boot or emulate, and that population is too small to consider. There is no anti-Linux sentiment, there is no Microsoft control, there is only developers following gamers to whatever platform the gamers use. If there was money to be made from Linux gamers developers would be there.