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Multiplayer Linux Games
gooshy1 writes "Ok it's getting near the end of the year and people are beginning to wind down for the holidays. What I want to know is are there any decent multiplayer games that an office of about 4-7 can play, preferably action. The machines that we use are not all that great, P4 1.7Ghz with 2 year old NVidia graphics cards, so Quake and the likes are out of the question. A favorite is BZFlag due to its playability and nice tunable graphics. All thoughts welcome, and Merry Chistmas/Happy Holidays :-)"
Where have we come as a nation, as culture when a P4 1.7Ghz is classified as a "not all that great" machine.
There's a difference between "getting the program to run", and "running with an acceptable 90fps framerate". I think that all of us hardcore gamers can agree that anything below 50-60fps isn't even worth touching.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
With such low end systems, you'd better stick with MUDs.
If my _great_ P2 450MHz machine with 128MB RAM and an Nividia TNT2 with 16 MB of VRAM can play Counterstrike via Wine, I'm really not sure what to recommend for your "not that great" machines...
Oh yeah?? Well I play Quake3 and Doom III on a 32mhz pentium with 4mb of RAM and no video card and no monitor and 32mb of hard drive space!
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I ran it on my ZX-81.
You forgot the part about two feet of snow, with a headwind, and you were grateful.
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Let's play Global Thermal Nuclear War.
paintball
No, you missed it. He secretly works for SCO as a software developer and is in the process of putting some SCO Intellectual Property code into the most popular Linux games. He gets a commision for every lawsuit SCO initiates, with the end result raising the share price.
SCO's business plan doesn't involve software development (in fact there is only one full time programmer, and two part time programmers). It involves 20 lawyers making false claims.
A Pentium 4? 2 year old video card? You poor soul!
I'm stuck with a 5 year old computer:
* Pentium 3/450 MHz
* 576 MB RAM
* Diamond Viper V550 (TNT) PCI 16 MB
Plus a 32 MB AGB TNT2 card purchased 2 months ago. If my other half didn't have a shoe fettish or jewellery obsession, I would be running with more clicks.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, from the nerds in Melbourne.
Mike
my girlfriend is an avid gamer and for her birthday i bought her a 256 mb video card. So, it has dual 400 mhz processor and 256 mb of ram. This is more than the 700 mhz w/ 128 mb of ram on my main computer!! *sigh* It's a good thing I love her...
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my girlfriend is an avid gamer...
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Oh yeah, I totally fucking feel your pain, you bastard.
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