Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-multimedia (27 mails)

[joe <joe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Adalberto Castelo wrote:

> On Sunday 30 January 2005 18:49, joe wrote:
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> > How is the performance compared to native linux games? If there is a
> > noticable lag I wouldn't like it.
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> 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).
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> > I'm curious, since my windows-using friends at work are telling me I
> > simply have to check out half-life.
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> 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.
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IIRC they were raving about half life 2 - isn't that a bit more recent?

Joe