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Live CD for PC Games?

Posted by Cliff on from the why-not? dept.

Onion asks: "Can anyone inform me why games developers don't put out games on a 'Knoppix' style live CD? This would negate coding the games for different PC platforms. Provided the hardware detection routines were up to scratch, the game could be coded using GNU/Linux for development and would run on any PC machine, regardless of OS. Only major drawback I can see would be the need to 'reboot' each time to play. Any thoughts or views on 'why not' ?"

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  1. Re:Here's the catch by kinnell · · Score: 4, Funny
    Hardware, ESPECIALLY gaming hardware changes so frequently, that it would be difficult to support your game in a few years, it would possibly be unplayable on newer hardware

    In other words, this would only be feasible if there was a gaming PC with standardised hardware which couldn't be upgraded

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