Linux Gaming

[smallharmlesskitten]

Sup dudes.

I have recently abandoned the corporations and have moved to the free OS you all know. Linux. Don't worry XP is still on the tower

I am using UserOSExtreme and even though I have got some games installed that came bundled with it I am still looking for more.

Do any other Linux users on this site have trouble looking for decent games. I'm pretty sure Spore is Linux capable unless I read wrongly

PS: Anyone know any good, reliable Linux game sites

 

[z121231211]

"To use Lunix legally, one must pay a $699 license fee to SCO for each processor that runs the Lunix kernel." - Linux's ED page

 

[smallharmlesskitten]

*cough* NO! *Cough* You can get legally free Linux anywhere.

I got mine from my PC magazine. I'm the only one who can use that disk however.

 

[Kikosemmek]

I use Gentoo. UserOS Extreme is an ultra user-friendly version of Ubuntu, which is already notorious for being easy to use (compared to many other distributions).

As for gaming, you could use Wine or Cedega to run some games, but don't count on everything to work smoothly, let alone without you having to tinker with it.

To play games properly, dual-boot with Windows.

 

[Woe Is You]

There is no Linux. There is only unlicensed Unix.

 

[t0mme]

Commercial native Linux games are rare to non-existent, so don't expect a lot from that angle. Your best bets are independent, freeware or opensource games/ports.
Windows games sometimes can, sometimes simply can't run in Linux with the help of Wine, Cedega and your own persistence.
DOS games run flawlessly with Dosbox, give or take a few headaches. And certain adventure games (LucasArts, Sierra AGI and others) really blossom with ScummVM.

The only games I play on my Linux laptop are the games delivered with Ubuntu, FreeCIV and my old DOS library. I don't see a major shift from Windows to Linux in the game world anytime soon, so keep a Windows partition/system ready.

p.s.
You might wanna google "Linux" and "games".

 

[Alex_P]

I use Gentoo. UserOS Extreme is an ultra user-friendly version of Ubuntu, which is already notorious for being easy to use (compared to many other distributions).

"Notorious" for being easy to use? "Notorious"?

-- Alex

 

[TheKbob]

Yellow Dog on a PS3.

 

[glimps]

All the unreal tournament run natively on Linux, Postal 2 + expensions and the NVN serie. Now using Wine or Cedega, you can get games like WoW or Guild wars playing nicely. If you like old classics, Diablo II, starcraft and Warcraft run like a charm.

Cheers

 

[the monopoly guy]

Battlefeild 1942

 

[Clain]

linux is a far better os then windows, but it does lack in the commersial games department (but there are thousands upon thousands of freeware/shareware)

apart from that use an emulator

currently there are emulators for every main console (bar current gen), and wine has finaly hit version 1.0

there are people that have claimed to run crysis on linux, but i havnt seen any proof
i do know that hl:e2 will run

 

[Woe Is You]

I use Gentoo. UserOS Extreme is an ultra user-friendly version of Ubuntu, which is already notorious for being easy to use (compared to many other distributions).

"Notorious" for being easy to use? "Notorious"?

-- Alex

That attitude is actually pretty common with people using distros that require you to compile them yourself from source.

The Gentoo ones just happen to be the most obnoxious ones with that idea.

 

[DeadMG]

Gaming on Linux = fail. I don't judge it by it's qualities as an OS, but Windows simply has way more games available. When you know for sure that your personal games run on Linux, then it's fine, but a lot don't. For example, I could game on Linux, WC3 and Source both run on it, but it won't run Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance.

On the other hand, nothing worth playing runs only on Linux.

 

[Ryuuken]

Just dual-boot Windows and Linux. Even if you get your games running on Linux, the majority of them will lock the resolution at 1280x1024. If this is the maximum resolution your monitor can go up to then this is no problem. But anything higher, you gotta go to Windows.

Though I don't think game devs realize how many people would switch to Linux if it had the same library of games as Windows does. Maybe Microsoft is paying them all off.

 

[tiredinnuendo]

Gaming on Linux.... hm...

I really love XKobo. That game's awesome.

- J

 

[Daedalus_UK]

I have managed to get many games to run on linux. All it takes is a degree of tweaking for certain games. Games such as Half-Life and Max Payne run quite perfectly using wine or a similar program. Newer games such as Call of Duty 4 however, require a bit playing about with before it will run at a decent speed. Your best bet though would be to dual boot and just use xp for gaming.

This link will probably be useful to you if you don't dual boot http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/wiwimod/

 

[Kikosemmek]

There is no Linux. There is only unlicensed Unix.

There's no such thing as unlicensed Unix. Unix is a proprietary OS which was created by BTL. It happens to be a very good system, and when Richard Stallman, the creator of the OS people mistakenly call Linux today, started working on his OS, he coded it from scratch and made it to provide roughly the same services and functions which Unix did. He named this system 'GNU.' If you knew what this stood for, you'd know that GNU's Not Unix.

The many Linux distributions can be called by the umbrella term 'GNU,' however, the Hurd kernel of GNU was much less than satisfactory (for being too advanced and complicated), and so another kernel was adopted, which did the job very well and was open-sourced: the Linux kernel created by Linus Torvalds. Linux is the kernel, not the entire OS. A fair way to call the entire OS is the term 'GNU/Linux,' but no one does that, and since 'Linux' sounds cool, it became the applied name for the entire OS.

---

I did run all of the Blizzard games on my Gentoo laptop flawlessly and without much hassle with Wine. If you really like Blizzard, you might no care. I will still say that you should dual-boot, though. As mentioned before, there's a program called ScummVM which will run all of your LucasArts games perfectly on your machine because there's a client of it for GNU systems.

 

[LadyZephyr]

I've used Ubuntu for a year now. I use it for everything but video editing and gaming. For everything else, it is exactly what I want and need. But when I wanna play a game, I use our desktop XP.

I have spent months trying to figure out the enigma that is Linux gaming with Wine. I'd like to say don't bother. It's not worth the effort.

Linux gaming is a misnomer.

 

[Alex_P]

I use Gentoo. UserOS Extreme is an ultra user-friendly version of Ubuntu, which is already notorious for being easy to use (compared to many other distributions).

"Notorious" for being easy to use? "Notorious"?

-- Alex

That attitude is actually pretty common with people using distros that require you to compile them yourself from source.

The Gentoo ones just happen to be the most obnoxious ones with that idea.

I know. Believe me, I know. [http://web.archive.org/web/20061004200708/http://www.funroll-loops.org/] (Just tryin' to assume good faith and get some more context before I go off on a big tangent about how "my OS is cumbersome and difficult to use" is no ta virtue.)

-- Alex

 

[Kikosemmek]

I use Gentoo. UserOS Extreme is an ultra user-friendly version of Ubuntu, which is already notorious for being easy to use (compared to many other distributions).

"Notorious" for being easy to use? "Notorious"?

-- Alex

That attitude is actually pretty common with people using distros that require you to compile them yourself from source.

The Gentoo ones just happen to be the most obnoxious ones with that idea.

I know. Believe me, I know. [http://web.archive.org/web/20061004200708/http://www.funroll-loops.org/] (Just tryin' to assume good faith and get some more context before I go off on a big tangent about how "my OS is cumbersome and difficult to use" is no ta virtue.)

-- Alex

It's not that the cumbersomeness is a virtue, its that optimization, version control and configurability are much more enhanced if you take a vested step in the installation of your system. It's _your_ machine, and it should be as you see fit.

Of course it's not for everybody to learn the ins and outs of their system. Lots of people have no time or patience to learn the command-line and the various elements that go into making a system, but this is a personal preference of mine and I was simply poking fun at the user-friendliness Ubuntu exhibits compared to most distributions. Forgive me if I seem a bit obnoxious. I, myself, moved to Ubuntu from XP, and then to Gentoo later on as I learned more about the system. I absolutely love it as this lack of user-friendliness actually empowers the user should he/she invest time into reading and understanding the manual and installation docs. In fact, you don't have to learn anything to install Gentoo on your system if you simply follow the very well-written manual on the site.

Furthermore, there are LiveCD's for people who prefer not to deal with the command-line at all and want to install their GNU systems graphically. Gentoo, also, has those and it will be the first to admit that the main sacrifice is user control and customizability.

The main argument is "if you really don't want to know, stick to your Windows where you are baby-sat and powerless." However, I understand the importance of having at least one distribution be very user-friendly and aesthetically comforting for people to more easily make the jump. Some feel no need to go past Ubuntu and I understand that. What I don't want is to see many distros following a pattern of pandering toward the problem of choking software patents and copyrights in order to be more user-friendly to the masses. So, I'm a Gentoo monkey.