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Does Linux Have Game?

Posted by michael on from the tuxracer dept.

kwpulliam writes "Tom's Hardware has an interesting writeup, discussing the difficulties in bringing games to Linux, and the dilemmas faced by the graphics card developers."

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  1. Re:call me stupid by mattyrobinson69 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    winelib (from the wine project) does something like that

  2. Re:It's the "video" drivers stupid by andreyw · · Score: 1, Redundant

    As someone who actually *has* a clue, I can tell you that writing drivers for linux is NOT a mess and that it IS easy. It was easy with 2.4.X. It became even easier with 2.6.X. In fact, if you're too slow to pick it up from the *publically-available* sources at kernel.org, there are TWO BOOKS written on the subject. There is nothing to fix, as there is nothing broken. No, Linux will *not* support a never-changing binary API . Supporting it will only result in a Linux equivalent of the driver hell over at Windows - remember the Windows 9x USB fiasco? You want a never changing API? Then do what NVIDIA did. Write your OWN never-changing API/ABI, and recompile that for every kernel on the planet at install - now you can keep your proprietary skeletons in the closet and STILL not piss-off linux users. And exactly why do you think its easy to develop drivers for Windows? Did you ever write one? Hell, did you even ever code or do something BESIDES spreading FUD on /.?

    Whats broken with linux drivers support? Have you actually written one, or are you just spreading FUD? I'll say FUD.

    Its hard to install nvidia drivers? Nope. ./nvidia-installer. Whew, that was... ummm... "hard." You want to bitch, maybe, about FireGL (I have no clue, since... well.. I don't have an ATi, but I have heard its not as simple)? Then bitch to ATi, and don't blame Linux. Doom 3 running at 1 fps instead of 2 fps? Boo freakin' hoo. Considering that ATi and NVidia aren't baseing their success on support of a niche community, be *glad* they even care. Don't like their work? Write your own. Its not the Linux kernel's fault though.

    You ARE spreading FUD. You claim that every year that new ATi and NVidia chips come out, only Windows gets support. But you are clearly wrong. ATi has support for their X800 PCIe cards in FireGL and NVIDIA has support for their 6X00 series as well. What the hell are you talking about?

  3. Re:Direct3D on Linux? by slonkak · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You're an assclown!

    http://www.winehq.com/site/myths

    "As Wine's name says: "Wine Is Not an Emulator": Wine does not emulate the Intel x86 processor."