On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 02:34, Wolfgang wrote: > On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 14:41, Mike Hockings wrote: > > I could not get winex to compile on FC1. Mind you, I did not > > investigate it much but when configured for the machine wine seems to be > > so-so OK. That is, Windows games run but seem to need a LOT more > > horsepower. My kids now have 650Mhz FC1 boxes that don't seem to have > > enough power to run Half-Life under wine (hl's requirements are > > something like a 133Mhz in Windows and it runs with no problems on my > > Win98 400Mhz box). Now, I should add that they only have 8M graphics > > memory (SIS) but the results are still disapointing (more to them than > > to me :-) > > > > On a 2000+ Athlon box with a PCI Nvidia card and FC1 the performance of > > hl is fine. UT and Q3 is good but UT2 is sluggish on large maps. > > > You don't need to run UT & Quake 3, using Wine, as they will run > natively on Linux. As does, Descent 3, Quake 2, RTCW, ET, Neverwinter > Nights, UT2K3 etc. (Unfortunately they don't have a Linux port of UT2, > damn!) > > > Kind regards, > > > > Mike > > > > P.S. The Athlon box is dual boot to Win98 and UT2 would not install > > under Win98 (installer crashes) their support tells me to make sure the > > machine meets the requirements or some such. Hah ! Go Linux! > > > > > > On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 20:46, Michael Gargiullo wrote: > > > make that winex > > > > > > On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 16:14, tar.bz2 wrote: > > > > hello > > > > > > > > I would like to know the best linux distribution to use games, since using > > > > wine on debian and redhat9 was not very much convincing > > > > > > > > is there sthing new on yarrow ? > > > > because really games are the only tiny thing that obliges one to keep a > > > > "windows working on machine" > > > > > > > > thanks > > > > happy new year > > > > Arkel > [snip] > > Wolf The Linux installer for UT2 is on disk 3. You may find that you have to mount/unmount the disks manually. For UT, Q3, etc. just google for the Linux installers -- far better than wine. With wine there are instructions or pointers to instructions on the application database at winehq Mike
