Thank you for the explanation. That clears it up. I don't play the Doom series either - I have Soldier of Fortune and Half-LIfe along with some others. And I have an Nvidia card <G>.
> > From: Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/05/24 Tue AM 06:28:10 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wine > > Brett I. Holcomb schreef: > > Who's doing the porting and where do we get them. Some time ago I > > wanted to get some of the games and all the links pointed to Loki who > > was no more. > > > > Loki may be no more, but the Loki Installer is alive and well, and quite > able to save one's bacon, using either native games that just have Linux > binaries and take the data files from the Windows disks, or Windows > games that must be run under Wine or Cedega, but whose installers don't > work (properly) under either. > > See Loki Installers for Linux Gamers at http://liflg.org > > and to buy what native stuff is available, try TuxGames at > http://www.tuxgames.com/ . I find their prices a bit outrageous, but you > are supporting the community if you buy from them, so that may make up > for it. > > And on a side note-- Half-Life 2 being ported? I don't think so... I'm > sure I heard that HL2, like HL, will *never* be ported. But Cedega tied > themselves into a pretzel to get it running (and Steam as well, although > I heard that a recent Steam patch broke the whole shebang again), and I > know that the Wine developers are beavering away madly to get DirectX 9 > support into the package (mostly for WoW, but also for HL2, Myst 4 and > Pirates!, those being the games that I've heard mentioned being tested > against the incomplete patchset). > > Not that I care, of course... I have an ATI card using the fglrx > drivers, so even half the things which *are* supposed to work under Wine > and/or Cedega do not (although native stuff generally runs fine, > including Doom 3. Too bad I have no interest at all in playing Doom 3, > having never liked the Doom series). So I try not to get all excited > about things that will work in the near future, as nice as it would be > to finish Myst 4 (and Uru). Until ATI gets their driver act together (or > I find the money to buy nVidia), I'm kinda SOL in any case. > > Holly > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
