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Best Configuration for Linux Gaming?

Posted by Cliff on from the aside-from-dual-booting dept.

werjman asks: "I'm interested in switching completely to Linux but the only thing holding me back is the gaming. What I really want to know is what distro, graphical environment, Window Manager, and so forth are low on the system resources and play games great (and by games, I mean 3D accelerated memory hogs). Does anyone out there actually use Linux as a gaming platform?"

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  1. Hate to say it by jaredmauch · · Score: 3, Interesting
    This is the only reason why i have a dual-boot system. I don't play a lot of games to be honest, but the ones that I do play require me to be stuck in windoze. When I upgraded my (desktop) system to a p4-2.8 htt/1g/radeon9800pro earlier this year (soon i'll have to say 'last year'), i was forced to update to XP from 98. I just couldn't get things to work correctly. I wasn't expecting the HT to work correctly, just act like a single cpu, but the usb, etc..on the mb just did not have 98/me drivers that would work in my setup.

    I took this chance to actually put some cash in m$ pocket when they've been getting "better" on the security, etc... front. Sure, mod me down or whatever for saying these anti-opensource things here. Not like i actually did anything for linux or open source. ;-)

    I've found that this works the best (aside from my PS/2) for my needs. YMMV depending on what you need.

  2. Re:Audio... by Newtonian_p · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, ALSA has 3D audio support for Sound Blaster Live! cards (I get 4 channel sound from my DVDs when played with Mplayer using the alsa audio output on my SB Live! 5.1).

    And since version 2, WineX has been able to translate DirectSound 3D into ALSA's 3D API.

    Does Diablo 2 use DirectSound 3D or just EAX?

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  3. loki installers for linux gamers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting
    These guys can help install games from their original cd onto linux.

    loki installers for linux gamers