On Tuesday 25 January 2005 10:21, Fergus Wilde 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 ...
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.
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.
And if anyone wants to tell me what motherboard / processor combinations they're using with the above, that would be great too, Best Fergus
Fergus I'm not competent to advise on hardware but have you thought of trying Cedega from Transgaming to play games on Linux ? I'm running 9.2 and I have a GeForce FX 5200. My son is a gamer, because he presently lives in Africa he only visits from time to time. When he was here at Xmas we installed Cedega and he got Half Life 2 running on it. You have to subscribe but its only GBP8.00 for 3 months and give plenty of support and access to upddates etc. According to the site Doom3 should work. www.transgaming.com gives details. Mike