On Tuesday 25 January 2005 10:16, Ben Higginbottom wrote:
On 25/01/05 10:21 AM, Fergus Wilde <fwilde@chethams.org.uk> wrote:
Tragically, I've decided I probably can't go to my grave without playing Doom3, addicted as I was to its predecessors for much of the nineties. Doom probably retarded my thesis by two years and in world terms probably slowed academic activity by something like 25 per cent, meaning we could probably be a happier, better race by now without it. But hey, it's a good game ...
One of my side projects is a ps-tetris, modeled after ps-doom. Unfortunatley I spend so much time on UI research I havnt time for anything else :)
More tragically still, I expect that means I will need a PC with a 'doze partition in order to play, something I've not had for a year or two (tell me if you've heard different) and a fancy new graphics card, those recommended appear to be the NVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra, GeForce 6800 GT, GeForce 6800 GTO*, GeForce 6800, and GeForce 6800 LE.
Oh no you dont, ID Software have always been very friendly to the linux community:
Ah! good news indeed! 'doze free pc can continue ... Thanks!
Heck they even host their own bittorrent tracker.
Anyone using these with success under 9.2? As I will be using SuSE exclusively for everything except Doom, I need to know they'll have a good 2d performance with plenty of good colours for graphics work and sharpness for text work. Any negative comments received gratefully too.
I havnt used any of the gfx cards you've listed, but I've used both Nvidia and ATI cards under linux, and have to say that the Nvidia cards were far easier to enable 3d support with and performed much better than the ati counterparts and have no reason to think that this has changed. Infact iirc Nvidia seem to be devoting more and more support to linux, so it might well have improved.
BTW, were lacking a speaker for this months manlug meeting. If you get it going do you think you might be able to do a short talk?
Regards,
Ben
-- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk