Due to Popular demand from some of the Linux users, i have Started this Thread ok what to start with.....

ok.. lets start with the newly released ThinkTanks from GarageGames, it was realised the other day, and the Windows version will be realised on friday

You can View the ScreenShots here ==> SCREENSHOTS

and you can download the DEMO over HERE ==> The DEMO
the link will take u a website to start the download there
SIZE = 13.55mb

Well... I don't know if this helps, [seeing that I'm not actually a Linux user]. But, you can download patches to run games like Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Quake 3 on Linux. Try looking at ftp.is.co.za

There is a Neverwinter Nights Server and Client for Linux.....

Downloadable at Bioware

Quake 1,2 & 3, Doom, Unreal Tornament and other kewl linux games can be found at downloads.com/linux

OK, I got Counter Strike working in linux with wine, and its running perfectly without any lag, and its playing gr8! here is a couple screen shots of it running on my desktop. (no i dont usually run it in such a small window, that was just for the pic)
Counter Strike 1
Counter Strike 2
Counter Strike 3

I also have UT2003 work in linux (damn fine game) I also got some pic's of that.
From the Intro
I love to win

The graphics in those screen shots are excelent!
Great, now where's the How-To?

hehe, how-to's... hehehe ok well

the ut2003 is fairly easy,

1st) make sure u have "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions" compiled into your kernel, or u will have problems installing ut2003 (trust me... I KNOW!!!!)

2) pop in cd3, and su into root and run the linux_installer.sh like this


and that will start the install, just follow the instructions from there (its like next, next, pop in cd1, next next, pop in cd 2, its really easy)

as for CS under wine... eish!!! i'm still trying to work out how i got it right, because i dont know, once i work it out, i will post a howto

but ut2003 under linux is really l33t hey... I'm loving it, and whats even better, is u play in a lan, and ping flood everyone else, it like buys u 5sec's in the game

ok, yet another game successfully work, and that means some more screen shots, Max Payne, its one of my favourites, i think this game is brilliant, so i decided to give this one oa go under linux, and yet again, it ran as smooth as ever.

ScreenShot1
ScreenShot2

The Second one took a couple of tries before i got it right, yet again, i'm sorry for the poorish quality

actualy the ut2k3 installer is fucking retarded



what crap oke..

Woohoo!

I decided to try mandrake again (9.0), and for some strange reason, linus stuff makes more sense to me now.

I also succeeded in updating the nvidia drivers - thus opengl works fine now!(tuks racer etc.)

I am currently downloading the point release of q3a for linux. I read somwhere that this is the way to intall q3a on a linux system:

execute the point release first
after that, copy the pak files from your win q3a cd to the installed directory
or save space by linking the pak file which are already on your win partition.

is the above correct?

if I can get q3a to work in linux, will mods like urbub terror also work?

Thanks!

thats correct. a mod usually comes in .zip file format, and is just config files and .pk? files, which are cross platform compatible. Just extract the urban terror files to a dir in your q3a dir (like /usr/local/games/q3a/ut/)
and run quake3 and load the mod.

Great! Downloading Urbun Terror as we speak, gonna try it.

Succeeded today in getting q3a to work in linux(yahoo!), but Im a little bit dismayed.

Don't get me wrong, q3a loads faster than win and plays like a dream, but the benchmarks are not so hot.

XP2000
256mb @ 333mhz
gigabyte 7vax
sounblaster live 5.1
gforce2 gts 32mb

Free ram before entering q3a on linux : 84mb
Free ram before entering q3a on winxp: 115mb

1024x768
32bit
3/4 texture detail
high quality sound
bilinier
dynamik lights

After timedemo av fps linux:89
winxp:116

I was under the impression that q3a under linux was better and faster than win. Is it because of mandrake?Or must I tweak my opengl settings?

This post has been edited by Heksanol: Jul 1 2003, 11:13 AM

it does, see, the way linux manages memory is different to the way windows does.

u see... in windows, it uses like X amount of memory and leaves the rest free.

what linux does, is it takes all the memory u have/give it, in ur case its 256mb, and it then it holds onto it, and when programs need memory, it then issues out what that program needs...

u see, linux buffers most of ur memory.

this is mine at the moment:

total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 261242880 255008768 6234112 0 13352960 117424128


so as u can see, linux takes all of ur ram avaliable, and then buffers it. basically keeps it there until am application needs it.

i hope this helps u, and trust me, its not chewing ur memory, but i know mandrake can use up a lot more memory than lets say gentoo, but in mandrake u have to much rubbish running in the background.

oh, and for ur graphics, add this to ur /etc/X11/XF86Config

Option "NvAGP" "1"

now add this to ur screen section... like i have here:




This post has been edited by Adelante: Jul 1 2003, 01:28 PM

Thanks Adalante, will implement those settings tomorrow, since I can thus far only connect to the net via winxp(see thread).

The memmory usage of linux is then actually great! If q3a needs more than the 84 mb available, then it will start grabbing memory from other processes that are idle at the time, untilo it has to take the swap file - correct? In my case, i didn't notice any pause whatsoever in q3a - thus no swap file usage there!

Does Warcraft work via wine?
Will Xfree86 v4.3.0 really make a big improvement on my system? I have v4.2.1

Sorry, just want to know if this is how to do it:

I take it i must edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file(thats what the nvidia readme said, something about Xfree86 v4.x.x using that file now)

In the "Section 'Screen' " i must add the line " Option 'NvAGP' '1' ", not add it on its own in XF86 file, right?

Must my device also be Geforce 4 MX440 with AGP8X, or in my case Generic Gforce2 GTS? I think I saw it was listed as a Gforce4 after the nvidia drivers were installed.

Thanks for the help!

no, you keep all your settings as is, you just add the Option "NvAGP" "1".

I never tried this and just ran a benchmark and found that my quake3 actually ran 10fps faster with NvAGP set to off than setting it to on :/

Option "NvAGP" "1" = ON
Option "NvAGP" "2" = OFF
#Option "NvAGP" "1" = OFF

It might just be my specific setup tho...try it yourself.


I have heard of people playing warcraft3 through wine.
As for upgrading X...i doubt u will get noticible performance increases, but it is still a good idea, since if something comes out with a higher version number, it means bugfixes! and besides, they improved X's memory handling and a bunch of other improvements.

This post has been edited by aquadog: Jul 1 2003, 02:07 PM

After getting the linux-gentoogaming kernel : avfps 147fps

Also tried out ET for linux, and as expected recieved higher frame rates!

They could have told you in detail how to install UT2003 in Linux, but no....
It took well over an hour figuring out why the installer doesn't read the CD rom, when I found that one, ONE, simple command was to blame!

1) Copy installer from 3rd CD to /home/user/tmp
2) Type (no need to su):
export SETUP_CDROM=/mnt/cdrom

And everything should run a-okay.
Just a tip, if you don't want to open a console and type ut2003 everytime, tell the installer to link to your desktop, and then just click the icon.

Now for WINE...

I just found out that Uplink from Introversion is also available for Linux!

I was thinking about ordering it online (check out the gaming section to find out more about this game), and after seeing there was a linux version, I am now convinced to buy it. If a developer makes extra time and resources to make a linux version of a good game, then I will support them!

And with the $/R ratio, its not that expensive!

I got Uplink while I was in the UK, the game is awesome. It has somewhat of a cult following. I really enjoyed it, hollywood hacking style (trace in 15s... passwords, elliptic-curve ciper cracking, bouncing across servers across the planet etc, etc) All in 2D (windoze version uses opengl, linux does too perhaps? i'm a linux newbie), but very cool - and many cold sweats while doing the missions. It is EXTENSIVE - well worth the cash to get it.

Check out Introversion, (as posted above) the demo is only 3MB or so.

This post has been edited by Xerxes: Sep 19 2003, 02:23 PM