Author of this article be damned as well; they aren't making Quake IV, and it's not called Unreal Tournament 3! If they followed that convention it would be 4...
Regardless, I've no idea why people think Half Life 2 comes close to Doom 3.
1. "Gordon you're back from a ten year sleep! You caused all this! No Time to explain! Go on a 4 level boat ride down a river!" There's no story in this game; I quess the assumed everyone would have read the numerous rumor pages relating to the story, considering they didn't have the time to implement that story.
2. Half Life doesn't have good physics, Havok does. "Focus on Physics?"; They paid a licensing fee. If you've played say, Deux Ex 2, you'd have fount that if you pick of a trash bin, you can (without the help of some 'gun') hurl it at a NPC, and kill them.
3. Half Life 2's graphics come no were near Doom's , hell it's still got Quake I code inside, with half a dozen DirectX surface effects thrown on to antiquated uses of BSP geometry. UT2003/4 and quake 3 can render the same pictures, if you implement pixel shaders.
Etc. Why people deal with Windows, STEAM, and everything else dealing with Microsoft, and some fat ex Microsoft employee is beyond me.
You ever notice how Gates is always holding something on stage? Some small object... Taking into account that and how he runs his business, it's clear Bill Gates has OCD.
Any distro will do fine, so in that regard whatever distro is fastest, will in turn be fastest for games. Slackware (my distro) and Gentoo are the obvious choices. I game Doom 3 and UT2004 on those.
Fedora on the other hand really fucks around with the kernels, games will work, but unless you for some reason NEED Fedora, don't even use it at all. For instance, all kernels shipped with it by default are set to run with 64 GIGABYTE high memory support. Thats a waste, and they use the same kernel even your lil 32 bit athlon XP.
Your best bet for speed in terms of desktop-interactivity is something like Slackware or Gentoo with a fast kernel you compile yourself. Take an hour to really work up a good kernel config with either the gentoo-dev-sources 2.6 package, or for something like slackware use the kernel source package for the 2.6.x-ck3 patchset from linux-milita.net. At the bair minimum use a 2.6 pre-emptive kernel.
One thing to note about my favourite Distro, Slackware (with the aformentioned kernel) is that cedega detects it doesnt use 'pthreads'. Since midway into the wineX version 3 products they started checking for it, as some games can use them/wont work without them. Slackware's glibc doesnt support pthreads, but for all intents and purposes all the games I tried were unaffected by THAT...
Not for WineX/Cedega itself. It REALLY isnt worth it. Believe it or not, the games don't work. If your game doesnt work in WineX it is really worth a shot to run it in wine, if it doesnt work in there, dont reboot into windows. Just stop playing the game. Not because it will 'fuel the linux gaming revolution!!!' but because the game probably sucks. The really really good games with the excellent mod support (half-life 2 and Source blows) get Linux ports. Regardless the way WineX works is when a game comes out they Transgaming Rushes and hacks in support into cedega, and it really doesnt work well accorss everyones systems. Your best bet, if you REALLY can't live without the latest shitty starwars game, or the latest piece of directx garbage, Wine will soon have support for it.
If you look into Winehq.com you can see that they are already doing very well with their start up work for DirectX9 implemations. And unlike transgaming they are taking their time to do it right. They are making a platform to run the games, Transgaming forked Wine, and now are trying desperatily in vain to use the executable and hack in all the needed stuff to make the game work as best as humanly possible.
Plus Wine is FREE.
In conclusion, Forget about Fedora, and use 2.6 kernels, the distribution from that point on in irrevlant. And hasnt this question been posed numerous times in the past? It always ends in that same kind of conclusion.
PS Gentoo is the fastest of them all, but if you dont mind losing a frame or to in your games use slackware.(thats all you really get it you do your own kernels in something like slackware) You also dont have to compile everything and (insert gentoo complaints here), if thats your beef. I LIKE gentoo's emerge, but my school's connection sucks balls so it would be really difficult to get my stuff downloaded and compiled.
This has been happening for years now! Steam is NOT working. People are beggning to release that these games arent really THAT good. Half Life 2 blowed.
My ass. The source engine is DirectX garbage. Doom 3 is a efficent, cross platform OpenGL platform with its OWN physics engine, not just the latest Havok setup.
It will take years, but Carmack will release the Doom engine as open source, while Source will remain closed, and misused.
All those subscribers, that's impressive. At 10 dollars a month, Blizzard is making a s-load of cash.
I dont' play the game, but if they wanted to apologize they'd temporaily/permenatly lower the price down a couple bucks, and then give all the money to me.
Or charity.
As a side note, I imagine they might do this with all their games. After Diablo III goes World Of Diablo III. After StarCraft III...
You get the idea, after that they would offer value packages. Aka 20 bucks for all three monthy.
15 for 2. 10 for one.
Sure i'd require more servers, but if you think about it, each user to each account will only be playing one game at a time.
Now if they only had Linux ports of all this stuff.
No. Microsoft Sucks. If it wasn't for free software (that gets created with quality in mind) kicking its ass, as opposed to software that's created with the sole purpose of trapping markets and tieing in with a crappy operating system, Microsoft would be the only game and town, and office would cost 5000 dollars.
In this day and age, it's really only Microsoft and FOSS. So you could look at it in the sense that its FREE(gnu.org) software thats lowering prices. That is, untill Microsoft goes bankrupt, then it'll be FREE(beer.com).
Wait till blender really gets kickass. It'd be interesting to watch Alias Wavefronts prices. (In addition, I would imagine the prospect of online renderers would have an impact as well.
You have to pay to use Outlook now, chances are Microsoft will charge a (probably nominal) fee for this thing as well.
Have to pay for something that MAYBE will protect your computer from the end result of Microsoft's inability to create secure, efficient software.
God I love GNU.
I myself have not used a Macintosh/Apple since the second grade, nor would I ever purchase one, but this little discovery is intriguing.
I started using Linux to fuck around with it, now I run it on everything, and tell people that they should run it, lest I murder them,
Regardless, I doubt I'll find myself falling in love with macintoshes, but like many other slashdotters, who dont use macs, this would be a fun "fuck-around" project, I just hope I can find it easy to pirate both pieces of software.
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Author of this article be damned as well; they aren't making Quake IV, and it's not called Unreal Tournament 3! If they followed that convention it would be 4... Regardless, I've no idea why people think Half Life 2 comes close to Doom 3. 1. "Gordon you're back from a ten year sleep! You caused all this! No Time to explain! Go on a 4 level boat ride down a river!" There's no story in this game; I quess the assumed everyone would have read the numerous rumor pages relating to the story, considering they didn't have the time to implement that story. 2. Half Life doesn't have good physics, Havok does. "Focus on Physics?"; They paid a licensing fee. If you've played say, Deux Ex 2, you'd have fount that if you pick of a trash bin, you can (without the help of some 'gun') hurl it at a NPC, and kill them. 3. Half Life 2's graphics come no were near Doom's , hell it's still got Quake I code inside, with half a dozen DirectX surface effects thrown on to antiquated uses of BSP geometry. UT2003/4 and quake 3 can render the same pictures, if you implement pixel shaders. Etc. Why people deal with Windows, STEAM, and everything else dealing with Microsoft, and some fat ex Microsoft employee is beyond me.
Ten bucks on Activision.
I was hoping it would have been a Grim Fandango remake...
People, reading in Texas? Call ripleys!
You ever notice how Gates is always holding something on stage? Some small object... Taking into account that and how he runs his business, it's clear Bill Gates has OCD.
I'll stick my penis in a hole at the atm to take out 60 bucks, hell I usually pay someone ELSE 'quick cash' for the privledge.
(just kidding, im a sexually frustrated computer nerd like the rest of you.
God these people are stupid.
Any distro will do fine, so in that regard whatever distro is fastest, will in turn be fastest for games. Slackware (my distro) and Gentoo are the obvious choices. I game Doom 3 and UT2004 on those. Fedora on the other hand really fucks around with the kernels, games will work, but unless you for some reason NEED Fedora, don't even use it at all. For instance, all kernels shipped with it by default are set to run with 64 GIGABYTE high memory support. Thats a waste, and they use the same kernel even your lil 32 bit athlon XP. Your best bet for speed in terms of desktop-interactivity is something like Slackware or Gentoo with a fast kernel you compile yourself. Take an hour to really work up a good kernel config with either the gentoo-dev-sources 2.6 package, or for something like slackware use the kernel source package for the 2.6.x-ck3 patchset from linux-milita.net. At the bair minimum use a 2.6 pre-emptive kernel. One thing to note about my favourite Distro, Slackware (with the aformentioned kernel) is that cedega detects it doesnt use 'pthreads'. Since midway into the wineX version 3 products they started checking for it, as some games can use them/wont work without them. Slackware's glibc doesnt support pthreads, but for all intents and purposes all the games I tried were unaffected by THAT... Not for WineX/Cedega itself. It REALLY isnt worth it. Believe it or not, the games don't work. If your game doesnt work in WineX it is really worth a shot to run it in wine, if it doesnt work in there, dont reboot into windows. Just stop playing the game. Not because it will 'fuel the linux gaming revolution!!!' but because the game probably sucks. The really really good games with the excellent mod support (half-life 2 and Source blows) get Linux ports. Regardless the way WineX works is when a game comes out they Transgaming Rushes and hacks in support into cedega, and it really doesnt work well accorss everyones systems. Your best bet, if you REALLY can't live without the latest shitty starwars game, or the latest piece of directx garbage, Wine will soon have support for it. If you look into Winehq.com you can see that they are already doing very well with their start up work for DirectX9 implemations. And unlike transgaming they are taking their time to do it right. They are making a platform to run the games, Transgaming forked Wine, and now are trying desperatily in vain to use the executable and hack in all the needed stuff to make the game work as best as humanly possible. Plus Wine is FREE. In conclusion, Forget about Fedora, and use 2.6 kernels, the distribution from that point on in irrevlant. And hasnt this question been posed numerous times in the past? It always ends in that same kind of conclusion. PS Gentoo is the fastest of them all, but if you dont mind losing a frame or to in your games use slackware.(thats all you really get it you do your own kernels in something like slackware) You also dont have to compile everything and (insert gentoo complaints here), if thats your beef. I LIKE gentoo's emerge, but my school's connection sucks balls so it would be really difficult to get my stuff downloaded and compiled.
You know your country sucks when someguys computer in his mother's basement has more wealth than yours does. Poor Peru.
Run GCOnf. Go to Applications, Nautilus, Preferences Select 'Always Use Browser" There you go.
"Instead of trying to get to heaven, maybe we should create one. here on earth"
I believe that human beings are unfit to govern themselves, and we need to create something that can do that for us.
I'm sure in a couple centuries we can easily find the time, technology, and know how to explore the stars.
Shut up.
Unfreakin' Believable!
By firing a rocket up your ass and making you realize there is more character development in Doom 3 then there ever was in Half Life 2.
This has been happening for years now! Steam is NOT working. People are beggning to release that these games arent really THAT good. Half Life 2 blowed.
If the bad guys name was steam.
My ass. The source engine is DirectX garbage. Doom 3 is a efficent, cross platform OpenGL platform with its OWN physics engine, not just the latest Havok setup. It will take years, but Carmack will release the Doom engine as open source, while Source will remain closed, and misused.
Latest in a string of intentional slashdot typoes?
That is the ugliest thing I've ever seen.
Or charity.
As a side note, I imagine they might do this with all their games. After Diablo III goes World Of Diablo III. After StarCraft III...
You get the idea, after that they would offer value packages. Aka 20 bucks for all three monthy. 15 for 2. 10 for one.
Sure i'd require more servers, but if you think about it, each user to each account will only be playing one game at a time.
Now if they only had Linux ports of all this stuff.
If that bald bastard wasn't so personable, Microsoft wouldn't have had such a monopoly!
In this day and age, it's really only Microsoft and FOSS. So you could look at it in the sense that its FREE(gnu.org) software thats lowering prices. That is, untill Microsoft goes bankrupt, then it'll be FREE(beer.com).
Wait till blender really gets kickass. It'd be interesting to watch Alias Wavefronts prices. (In addition, I would imagine the prospect of online renderers would have an impact as well.
You have to pay to use Outlook now, chances are Microsoft will charge a (probably nominal) fee for this thing as well. Have to pay for something that MAYBE will protect your computer from the end result of Microsoft's inability to create secure, efficient software. God I love GNU.
One of the clerks told me I should buy a warranty on an ink cartridge. I hit her.
I started using Linux to fuck around with it, now I run it on everything, and tell people that they should run it, lest I murder them,
Regardless, I doubt I'll find myself falling in love with macintoshes, but like many other slashdotters, who dont use macs, this would be a fun "fuck-around" project, I just hope I can find it easy to pirate both pieces of software.