Just picked up Q3A for $10 at electronic boutique. Applied the pointrelease patch and oh baby. Never ran this well under Windblows. Especially nice graphics with GeForce2-MX. Don't worry, I'll spread the word. Curtis :) On Wednesday 06 June 2001 09:29 pm, Matthew wrote:

Brian Dunaway wrote:

...

Hey,

A few weeks back when I first joined this list there was a thread about who plays games in Linux.

Well since then I have downloaded all of the Loki demos, installed the Windows binaries for Unreal Tourney and purchased Quake 3 Arena (from my local ebworld store for $9 bucks) and Ultimate Solitaire (hey...it was 4 bucks...).

I want to purchase Heavy Metal 2, Decent 3 and Tribes 2.

I'm looking forward to Heavy Metal Fakk 2 and have signed up for the Beta Test...which I haven't heard anything back from in about a week.

I really want to support this movement of games to the Linux platform.

I signed some of the petitions at tuxgames.com.

But what else can we do as a community?

I mean we are rather scattered...it's hard for a lot of stores to stock the games since they have no idea what the demand is going to be...and which titles sell the best.

Thanks.

Brian D.

Hello Brian,

Just spread the word :-). When people ask you what you can do you can tell them.

The most you can do is purchase the games and try your best not to purchase the Windows versions, even though they may come out before the Linux version.

Anyway, with Linux you can sometimes do more things when playing a game through a window for instance, your system will not slow down.

Also, when you spend a couple of hours and defeat some tough MOBS your Linux box will not freeze up on you. Unless its a bug issue with a driver, but usually these can be worked out.

Matt

Go to the www.lokigames.com and look at the FAQ. I was a 3Dfx fanatic for years, but no that there' s no more support for drivers, and no linux-3dfx site I switch. Frankly, nvidia give better performance. My GF2-MX cost under $100 U.S. I noticed a difference right away. Stuff like the target for the bomb site in counter-strike that I never saw before installing the nvidia card. Glide is a subset of OpenGL standard. There's a sort of feel to the 3dfx stuff that makes it unique and I liked it, but I see so much more detail and extra textures using the nvidia stuff. You might want to check the Mesa 3d site. They just released a new/updated version of the Mesa 3d libs and drivers. Cheers. Curtis On Thursday 07 June 2001 01:15 am, Ziga Dolhar wrote:

Lucky you :-)))

I'm runing Unreal Tournament on my compy (p3 650@917, 256 MB ram and voodoo3500) , and in Windowses I et 50 fps (1024×768, all details "high"), but when runing under Linux (with OpenGL; th Glide doesn't work) I get 30 fps.... And it seems as if it was recieving my commands with a little "lag", textures are not ok, sblive makes "strange" noises sometimes... And yes, I am a Linux newbie/lamer :]. Thank dog I have my Win2k installed :-)

Yours, Ziga

On Friday 08 June 2001 05:34, Curtis Rey wrote:

...

Just picked up Q3A for $10 at electronic boutique. Applied the pointrelease patch and oh baby. Never ran this well under Windblows. Especially nice graphics with GeForce2-MX.

Don't worry, I'll spread the word.

Curtis :)

On Wednesday 06 June 2001 09:29 pm, Matthew wrote:

...

Brian Dunaway wrote:

...

Hey,

A few weeks back when I first joined this list there was a thread about who plays games in Linux.

Well since then I have downloaded all of the Loki demos, installed the Windows binaries for Unreal Tourney and purchased Quake 3 Arena (from my local ebworld store for $9 bucks) and Ultimate Solitaire (hey...it was 4 bucks...).

I want to purchase Heavy Metal 2, Decent 3 and Tribes 2.

I'm looking forward to Heavy Metal Fakk 2 and have signed up for the Beta Test...which I haven't heard anything back from in about a week.

I really want to support this movement of games to the Linux platform.

I signed some of the petitions at tuxgames.com.

But what else can we do as a community?

I mean we are rather scattered...it's hard for a lot of stores to stock the games since they have no idea what the demand is going to be...and which titles sell the best.

Thanks.

Brian D.

Hello Brian,

Just spread the word :-). When people ask you what you can do you can tell them.

The most you can do is purchase the games and try your best not to purchase the Windows versions, even though they may come out before the Linux version.

Anyway, with Linux you can sometimes do more things when playing a game through a window for instance, your system will not slow down.

Also, when you spend a couple of hours and defeat some tough MOBS your Linux box will not freeze up on you. Unless its a bug issue with a driver, but usually these can be worked out.

Matt