I recently installed Linux-Mandrake 8.1 on my system. For a Harry Homeowner or a Joe Sixpack like me, I was glad the installer recognized all my devices and installed properly without me having to fiddle with cryptic Unix commands or logging to the dreaded console (which I don't know how to use).
I really like games, but I CAN'T RUN ARMAGETRON or TUX RACER. Whenever I launch these games, I can see the hourglass for the initial runtime processing of the game. The game then unexpectedly exits. I don't know why it behaves this way. Please help! Are there any documentation (html, readme.txt) or help files included with these games? Where can I get these if none is included? I run my KDE on X at a resolution of 1024x768. My graphics card is a SIS 530 running Xfree86 4.1 with 3D software acceleration (3D support deemed experimental by Xfree, according to the installer, but I installed it anyway, and it runs fine, except for the aforementioned games). The other games run fine, but they run in a window that I am unable to resize. Can I resize it? Am I right in suspecting that KDE's use of memory is responsible for this? What graphic interface would let me conserve the most memory for my games (Window Maker?, Blackbox?)? I plan to install heavyweight games such as Quake3, Unreal, Counter-Strike, Half-Life, and Red Alert 2: Yuri's revenge on my machine. Any tips you can advise? Here are my system specs. AMD-K6+2-500 128MB RAM SIS 530 on-board AGP 2x 8MB video RAM ES-SOLO on-board sound card 20GB hardrive Linux-Mandrake 8.1 Powerpack KDE and Gnome @ 1024x768 resolution Thanks, Michael "Mike" Peligro
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