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Linux Gaming after Loki

Posted by michael on from the sorry-state-of-affairs dept.

mahdi13 writes "Linux Hardware has a great story about the past, present and future of Linux Gaming in 2003. They briefly touch on the commercial games available and what will be available for Linux in the near future. It is a good read and contains excellent information to keep the Linux Gamers satisfied with what is commercially available."

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  1. "Linux Gaming" by huntz0r · · Score: 5, Funny

    is that sort of like Windows Security?

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    1. Re:"Linux Gaming" by DRO0 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Except there's no icculus.org for Windows security...

  2. New record. by Mullen · · Score: 1, Funny

    This must be a new record, /.'ed with only 3 +1 commments!

    Linux Hardware not having enough hardware, how ironic.

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    1. Re:New record. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      holy shit, does this mean some people actually read the article before posting?

  3. Yeah by dolson · · Score: 5, Funny

    because Mac users have been playing Neverwinter Nights and UT2003 for months and us Linux users have been waiting for so long... Oh, wait...

  4. Re:Personal Unix by Lxy · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's like I always say: `Kill -9 first. Ask questions later.'"

    Yes, but it doesn't roll off your tongue quite the same way.

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  5. Re:Console games suck by Mr.+Underbridge · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, but (geek)&&(!(married)) == !(laid)

  6. Re:Satisfied? by nathanh · · Score: 4, Funny
    Let's face it, if you want to play games then you need to run Windows.

    Gah, if you consider futzing about with drivers and patches a "game", then sure. Imagine the typical blog of a "Windows gamer":

    9:30am Back from EB with the latest WarNerds 50000. Can't wait to play it!

    9:34am Installer crashed. Downloaded the revised installer from the WarNerds website. Only 167MB! How did people get revised installers before the Internet?

    9:54am Revised installer doesn't support my video card. Luckily I have both an nvidia and an ATI card just for such emergencies. I'll swap the ATI in. Will only take a minute!

    10:37am Phew, that took longer than I expected. My water-cooling pipes were in the way of the AGP slot. I should invest in a fan-forced nuclear cooling system like everybody has at the LAN parties.

    11:12am Yay! Installer finished. Needed to switch out the nvidia drivers and install the ATI drivers first. Thankfully Windows makes this all so easy!

    11:13am Hrm, game crashed. Says my ATI video card isn't supported if I want to play with VR headsets. Oh well, I guess I'll swap the nvidia back in.

    12:22pm Lunch-time.

    1:45pm Confused!? I swapped the nvidia card back in but it still complains about my video card. I guess I'll read the WarNerds forums.

    3:12pm Ahhh! Seems I need point release 316 with hotfix 76 because I'm using Windows 2005 with SP2 BUT because I'm using an nvidia revision 4 s/n 1287461 I need to retrograde the drivers to INFUSOR 2003. Of course! How stupid of me.

    4:05pm Ok, got the INFUSOR 2003 drivers installed and game starts now, but crashes at the menu. Getting closer! I can almost taste the gameplay.

    4:57pm Hrm, don't know why, but seems removing my Firewire scanner makes it get past the menu. Strange, because the scanner wasn't even turned on. But I'm playing WarNerds 50000 right now!

    4:58pm OHMYGODTHISGAMEISGREAT. This is the world's greatest game!!! I'm so glad I bought it!!! It's like I'm living the world's greatest dream!!! It's everything they said it would be!!!

    5:18pm Finished WarNerds 50000! That game was brilliant. I'll have to get the sequel.

    If you want to play games then you get a console. They Just Work.