Gotta go with UT2004. It's linux client is awesome and it's around $10 bucks now. Bioshock is simply an awesome game but it requires a hefty pc (it of course requires windows).
I certainly respect the designers and programmers of Nexuiz and Alien Attack.... it's just that when they bolt bump mapping and specular lighting onto the Q3 and Q2 engines, performance suffers in some spots. I expect games running on the Q3 engine to get a minimum of 60 FPS on my machine (C2D 2.8ghz, 7800GTX) and it just doesn't. On Dec 19, 2007 5:18 PM, CM Banker <csf006+brlug at gmail.com> wrote: > My son had issues with Nexiuz; his graphics card is older. Eventually, > he worked them out by backing away from some of the effects. My machine > had no issues with graphics. I've got an older box I'm going put this on so > we can Deathmatch as a family (sounds mafioso bad doesn't it?) > > > What are your choice on games? (Going to have to try bioshock) > > > On Dec 19, 2007 1:05 PM, Andrew Baudouin <andrewmb at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Open source games based on the GPL versions of Q2 and Q3 engines are > > nice, but I never find their performance to be compelling for what they > > provide. > > > > I found Nexuiz and Alien Attack to perform worse than Bioshock on my > > system, for example. Both games attempted to bolt recent features ( e.g. > > Shader Model 3.0 in the case of AA) onto the old engines, which are not > > usually optimized. > > > > > > On Dec 19, 2007 11:37 AM, CM Banker < csf006+brlug at gmail.com > wrote: > > > > > Oh yeah..as mentioned on this list about 3 weeks ago, my son did > > > indeed finish setting up the beowulf cluster he started on ...and has > > > since > > > moved on to the game Nexiuz > > > > > > You should try Nexiuz... Its perfect for those people with itchy > > > trigger fingers. > > > > > > > > > > > > Regards... > > > > > > CMB > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > General mailing list > > > General at brlug.net > > > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > General at brlug.net > > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20071220/497a42b1/attachment-0001.html
