Hi Richard,
I am a massive player of the BF series and I currently use Cedega to play
BF2 and BF2142........or at least I used to till I purchased an XFi
soundcard from Creative.
There is no support for the XFi and nor will there be for some time.
However I can say that both games run amazingly on Linux using Cedega and I
easily get 15-20 frames better performance on Linux.
Its not too much of an issue for me though at the moment as I have a very
good video card so I still manage to run both games in full graphics under
windows.
Cedega is pretty good they have a fairly large games DB that they support,
although not perfectly in some cases. I have allot of games that will run
under Cedega that I play but without sound atm its pretty pointless.
Jason
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Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 17:43:03 +0100
From: "Richard Forth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Peterboro] Gaming on Linux / Disk imaging
To: "Peterborough LUG - No commercial posts"
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Hi Gang,
Not much going on on the list at the moment so I though I would throw in a
couple of questions.
I would be interested to know if anyone has any experience with gaming on
Linux Boxes, especially 3d games.
Particularly of interest is getting games that require DirectX to play,
such
as:
- Battlefleid 2
- Diablo II
- Age of Empires
- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
Now I know DirectX is a proprietary Microsoft product, but I was sure I
heard somewhere that there was an OSS project to get these games working
on
a WINE implementation that either emulated or hacked DirectX to trick the
games into loading correctly.
Malcolm i beleive you have got Quake 2 running ok, does this use DirectX?
Im
not sure. Also anyone got any howto's of getting 3d games running on Linux
systems? also amyone know of any good 3d games that are OSS that work
natively on linux that can be installed say from APT-GET?
Secondly, I would like to backup my linux installation to a DVD image or
something in case I tinker too much and need to restore to a working
system,
without having to do a restore from scratch, then work through all the
rubbish of updating the distro, installing apps and configuring the
environment again, I have a version of Drive Image 2002 but I tried it
last
week and it does not like EXT 2 / EXT 3 filesystems.
Any one know of a good disk imaging software that supports linux
filesystems?
Thanks for any help you can give.
--
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Richard Forth
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