I feel your pain. The wife and I have been happily blowing each other away for a couple of months, ever since we picked up a copy of the original UT in a discount bin.
The original runs great on my laptop (16MB Radeon Mobility video), but UT2004 is barely playable under Direct3D, even at the lowest resolution and texture settings. Performance using the SW renderer was even worse.
As luck would have it, I recently upgraded HER machine with a 128MB Radeon 9200, and UT2004 runs like a champ there.
Guess she gets to win for a while:-)
Re:Linux games
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The wife and I have been happily blowing each other...
Does this mean that the "average linux computer" is no longer going to be a 200MHz AMD, and the K icon will start to be seen on glow-in-the-dark quad-processor computers with jet engine noises coming from the graphics cards?
Re:Linux games
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Contrary to popular belief, Linux has always been able to run games. Ever heard of nethack or xbill? Oh wait, not those kind of games?
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No problem, a lot of people are confused by this so it's not like you're the first person to get this wrong. Let me clear it up for you.
You see, in the case of the Mac they can run games but won't run them before they've been properly beta tested by Windows users. Once enough of them have called for technical support and a majority of their problems have been worked out then, and only then will the Mac conceed to running a game.
Linux is like that too.
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What sort of 3D accelerator do you use to get nethack running right? I've got a Radeon 9100 and it still seems to be running at the lowest resolution with 16 colors when I try it, also it seems to have downgraded to ASCII characters since my graphics card is obviously too poor to run such a bloated game.
Re:This is not right
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That reminds me of the doom port that made all the monsters PIDs on your system. If you shot it it would re-nice the process and if you killed it it would kill the process. Very fun, and dangerous, and cool idea.
When asked why you are playing a video game on the production server you can just say that you had to kill a few processes that had become stale.
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Thats my problem also, but I realised I spent more time complaining about being bored than being productive and just grabbed a copy of win2k3c(..from the store..) so I can resume my gaming addiction. Of course then I started gaming all day and now have zero productivity.. damn counter-strike/natural selection/day of defeat/wc3/whatever else is lurking on my machine.
-- Pain lasts, kid. Its how you know you're alive.
Sometimes I think this growing up thing is just pain management-TheMaxx
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A game coming out for Linux or Mac is front page news.
Re:You aren't missing too much.
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And they are pretenting to be Tribes:)
Re:You aren't missing too much.
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If you are seriously letting a 6 year old play UT2kX then you need to be shot. Retard.
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So, a good game comes out for Linux, just after I give up my desktop w/GF3 for a laptop w/no 3d acceleration. Just my luck.
<wik>/bin/finger that girl in the back row of machines.
I'm confused. Mac and Linux can run games? What is this world coming to?!
So, when are they going to release the BeOS version?
It's already taken me half a day to download 150MB of the 200 total.
This isn't going to help any...
Thanks, thanks a lot.
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LAN party at Kethinov's house!
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The CB App. What's your 20?
If that's not improvement, then I don't know what is...
a PC?
dont worry, we'll always have some new (sometimes old) hardware that hasnt a driver ported to linux yet.
"The quality of life is inversely proportional to the number of keys on your keyring."
Remember, there's no games for Linux or Macs.
I have to keep reminding my boss of that.
"What's that you're playing there?"
"It's, um, it's a system administration system tool system! Yes, that's it! Look, [Ctrl-Alt-F1] it's on Linux! No games, remember!"
"Ah, yes, that's okay then. Carry on."
Phew.
I'd have more fun on my Dual 1.8 if I didn't suck so bad. But that's neither Apple's nor Epic's fault.
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
I'm still holding out for the OS/2 Warp UT2k4 demo!
The OS/2 community will NOT disappear into the night without a fight!
So whose fault is it?
Come on, you have to blame someone! This is Slashdot!
So you use the term "playing well together" as an eufemism for applying extreme violence? You are a sick puppy!
There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind. (Francis Bacon)
Uncompressing Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo for GNU/Linux 3120.................
And somewhere an unconventional fellow with long hair and a beard feels joy about this game for a different reason than other people...
Wenn ist das Nunstueck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput.
is it too early to ask where's my gentoo ebuild?
That reminds me of the doom port that made all the monsters PIDs on your system. If you shot it it would re-nice the process and if you killed it it would kill the process. Very fun, and dangerous, and cool idea.
When asked why you are playing a video game on the production server you can just say that you had to kill a few processes that had become stale.
======== In the future, everything will be artificial. ========
Thats my problem also, but I realised I spent more time complaining about being bored than being productive and just grabbed a copy of win2k3c(..from the store..) so I can resume my gaming addiction. Of course then I started gaming all day and now have zero productivity.. damn counter-strike/natural selection/day of defeat/wc3/whatever else is lurking on my machine.
Pain lasts, kid. Its how you know you're alive. Sometimes I think this growing up thing is just pain management-TheMaxx
A game coming out for Linux or Mac is front page news.
And they are pretenting to be Tribes :)
If you are seriously letting a 6 year old play UT2kX then you need to be shot. Retard.