> > You never had to configure anything in Windows? Reduce a bit your sound > card acceleration? Tweak around with your gfx card settings?
>What the heck is "reducing sound card accleration?" Hmmm. I remember a slide bar somewhere about the sound card... maybe it was some completely different thing. >I only tweak GFX if I'm trying to overclock and get better performance >:) How many times have you had to uninstall your regular drivers, because the newer nVidia's were faster, and then uninstalled your nVidia's because the older nVidias were even faster, and then uninstalled those and installed GLSetup because the old nVidias were incompatible with game X that you love so much... well, been there, done that. > >But to suggest as you did in a previous post that > >Linux makes plug and play easier, well yes, you will get your soundcard > >recognized, but will your programs (aka games) recognize it? > > Sure. Haven't you ever played a game in Linux? I could surprise you with > some data. Quake 2 in Linux is way faster than same machine running Quake 2 >It is not "way" faster. I don't consider 3-5fps "way" faster. 3-5? We had managed to get more than that. > in Windows. Better yet, Quake 2 for Windows on a Windows emulator in Linux > is faster than Quake 2 in Windows! Interesting, isn't it? >In software rendering, yes. But people don't play Q2 in software. Nevertheless, it was interesting to compare. >Let me ask you this: What games *other* than Quake (and Civ3, and Myth) >can we play in Linux? Especially now that Loki has bit the dust? You gotta be kidding, right? www.tuxgames.com? Loki is still up and running, with two games comming up in Xmas? Does any of the following ring a bell: Neverwinter Nights, Soldier of Fortune, Deux Ex, Jagged Alliance 2, Descent 3, Heavy Metal FAKK 2, Kohan, Rune, Railroad Tycoon 2, Sin, Shogo, Tribes 2, etcetc? And if that's not enough, then load up your WinE and play your Windows games there! ;) >(silence) >Okay, are we done arguing about which OS is better than the other for >gaming? It's a pointless argument. Consoles whip all computer >platforms anyway since they never crash and never have compatibility >issues. Consoles never crash? What's this that I hear everywhere about the XBox on exposition on the different Toys'r'us around USA reading randomly from the "CD drive", failing to output any sound, stopping abruptly with error messages, etc? > >On the issue of crashing... all I can say is that Dos machines didn't > crash > >as much because they weren't doing as much! Spec your windows system down > >to the bare minimum and only run one program at a time, with no lan > >connections or anything running, and believe me it won't crash either. > > But you can run Linux with everything running and all services on, and it >..and the game will run, but pause for a few seconds every minute while >some process decides that it really really needs Ring 0 access in the >kernel. Come on, choose your priorities dude! Huh? I've played Quake 3 (no, I'm not proud of having played Quake 3, but we had nothing else to play on network back in those days ;) ) for hours in a row with "crappy" computers running Mandrake Linux and never experienced pauses and such. > won't crash. In the worst possible event, X will crash but not the OS, so >And that's acceptable? Well, I prefer the X to crash (and even so it happens with less frequency than Windows crashes) than a complete OS crash. Just "startx" and you're back on. >I'm just saying you should choose your battles wisely. If you were >arguing for Linux as a server OS, I'd roll out the red carpet and step >aside. But gaming isn't one of those platforms you should debate on. I still don't understand why not, but nevermind. I have this stable OS that has the same potentiality as this other unstable OS. In the very least it's as good to run games as the other. Pedro R. Quaresma [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] "So long, and thanks for all the fish" http://www.salvador-caetano.pt http://www.globalshop.pt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
