red wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is there any Linux gamers out there?
>
> My house mate plays pc games and I doubt that there is but any good games?
>
> Rik
>
>
I'm a linux gamer where possible, although I still have a windows
partition around and, depending on which games you wish to play, I would
suggest that this is the best solution. Having said that there are quite
a few commercial games with linux ports, but they tend to be older
games. All ID software games (except quake live, but that's supposedly
coming) have been ported although the linux installers can be hard to
find. Unreal tournament and UT2004 have native linux ports, the UT3
linux port has supposedly been held back due to some legal issues but is
apparently still on the cards.
On the open source front I'd recommend Battle for Wesnoth, a very
nice turn based strategy game. There's also Openarena, warsow, nexuiz
and numerous others for your FPS fix.
Finally there's wine, which is an implementation of the windows API
under linux. Some games run very well under this, especially older
games. There can be some graphical issues or other problems however.
I've not tried too many games under wine but I have had success with
every blizzard game I've tried and portal ran well.
Some sites worth looking at are www.happypenguin.org - which lists linux
games, both open source and commercial, and allows users to rate them.
Another site is tuxgames.com, which is an online shop specialising in
linux games.
Hope this helps :)
Adam.
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