The State of Linux Gaming

Srikant_Chaudhry writes "CTZ has an interesting article that talks about hardware and software problems, along with others, that is limiting Linux gaming as a whole. Here's a quote from their concluding paragraph: "As of this moment, gaming on Linux is still a little like the Wild West. It's somewhat chaotic, random and empty, but it can be very exciting too. As time progresses and the market matures, we will see a plethora of games on Linux. Right now, many distributions are concentrating on other materials, like making their distributions easy to use, and making sure they work well with all the different hardware. Once the Linux desktop has stabilized to a certain extent, you can expect to see developers turn their energies to better gaming support under Linux. That's when the Linux gaming market will really take off."

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Re:Linux gaming for modern games is a log way off

[pecosdave]

I see the problem:

Drop the Radeon from the equation. ATI is horrible about supporting their own stuff just as the article said. I used to be an ATI guy, I knew nothing better. Then someone introduced me to 3DFx/VooDoo, I loved it. Then the Radeon came out. I liked it, until it cooked itself, exchanged it on warranty, gave up on getting it to work in Linux (this was 2000 or so). I had one of the first couple of versions Radeon with 64MB onboard, I traded it to my roommate for a GeForce 2 with 64MB of DDR. The GeForce looked better in both OS's. My newer GeForce got stolen with my whole computer, so in August I pulled my GeForce 2 out of my work computer and brought it back home, I'm playing UT2004 at home with it all the time and it still plays very well.

My laptop has an ATI, can't change that, can't do 3D, so I can only play Postal, The Battle for Wesnoth, Frozen Bubble and other very good 2D games with that. Hey, it's a Celeron 450.

Bite the bullet. Drop ATI. On Linux Matrox has advantages over ATI, but Nvidia is still king. This is ATIs fault.