Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-multimedia (27 mails)

[michael norman <michaeltnorman@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 31 January 2005 16:15, joe wrote:
> Adalberto Castelo wrote:
> >On Sunday 30 January 2005 18:49, joe wrote:
> >>How is the performance compared to native linux games? If there is a
> >>noticable lag I wouldn't like it.
> >
> >Well, the old games are usually not performance bound in modern machines,
> >i.e., when they work, they work well (for the small sample of games I
> >actually play).
> >
> >>I'm curious, since my windows-using friends at work are telling me I
> >>simply have to check out half-life.
> >
> >Somehow I never manage to get HL working under wine (I must be the only
> > linux user that couldn't do it), but I hear it works pretty well. I used
> > to play it under windows, and it was a pretty solid game, indeed. It may
> > be a little dated by now, though.
>
> IIRC they were raving about half life 2 - isn't that a bit more recent?
>
> Joe
My son is a gamer, when he was here at Xmas he bought Half Life 2 and played 
it on my 9.2 box using Cedega from Transgaming, which is a commercial version 
of Wine optimised for Widows games.  Details here www.transgaming.com

It costs GPP 8.00 for three months subscription.  I have a GeForce FX 8200, he 
was quite happy with the performance.

Mike