TheLastColdBeer Posted October 17, 2012 Member ID: 489 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 51 Topic Count: 548 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 4673 Content Per Day: 0.87 Reputation: 5862 Achievement Points: 41100 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 14 Joined: 09/22/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 18 hours ago Birthday: 01/09/1963 Device: Kindle Fire Share Posted October 17, 2012 OK, my brother almost has me convinced. All his stuff now runs on Penguin ware and he only runs Windows as a virtual machine. I haven't messed with it since the days of Slackware & Debian. Don't even know what kernel version is out there. Anybody game on Linux? Last stuff I tried was Doom & OpenGLQuake, and it was a pain to configure. Has it gotten any better? Just curious, got a spare 30 gig hd I might reformat & dual-boot if it's worth the trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
BeerGoat Posted October 17, 2012 Member ID: 2923 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 15 Topic Count: 24 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1242 Content Per Day: 0.27 Reputation: 294 Achievement Points: 8349 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/24/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: Monday at 03:08 PM Birthday: 03/20/1976 Device: Windows Share Posted October 17, 2012 i would like to know as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
little_old_man Posted October 17, 2012 Member ID: 1194 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 436 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 6692 Content Per Day: 1.29 Reputation: 11691 Achievement Points: 53094 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 76 Joined: 02/27/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 16, 2023 Birthday: 04/15/1960 Share Posted October 17, 2012 Wasn't Linux the little brother on the Peanuts show? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
BeerGoat Posted October 17, 2012 Member ID: 2923 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 15 Topic Count: 24 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1242 Content Per Day: 0.27 Reputation: 294 Achievement Points: 8349 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/24/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: Monday at 03:08 PM Birthday: 03/20/1976 Device: Windows Share Posted October 17, 2012 lol @LOM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
TheLastColdBeer Posted October 17, 2012 Member ID: 489 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 51 Topic Count: 548 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 4673 Content Per Day: 0.87 Reputation: 5862 Achievement Points: 41100 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 14 Joined: 09/22/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 18 hours ago Birthday: 01/09/1963 Device: Kindle Fire Author Share Posted October 17, 2012 Not takers? That answers that question for me. Was hoping somebody ran COD on a virtual windows box successfully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Astronomer Posted October 17, 2012 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.49 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Device: Windows Share Posted October 17, 2012 COD will run like poop in a virtual environment as the operating system and therefore the game will not have direct access to the video hardware. You'll be running the generic virtual video driver, which is not optimized for the card like a native driver is. There are a number of good open source games out there: http://www.penguspy.com/ but they should be run on a "bare-iron" Linux installation. Steam is in beta and this could be a game-changer for making Linux a game platform. Getting the video card manufacturers to put real resources into quality drivers is always an issue. nVidia drivers have always been better than AMD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
KaptCrunch Posted October 17, 2012 Member ID: 389 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 45 Topic Count: 296 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4479 Content Per Day: 0.84 Reputation: 3643 Achievement Points: 36581 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 40 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 5 hours ago Birthday: 01/01/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted October 17, 2012 Cedega Technology The Cedega engine supports a wide variety of games through both official and community support. The following is a partial list of games known to be compatible with the Cedega engine. American McGee's Alice Baldur's Gate II - Shadows of Ahm Baldur's Gate II - Throne of Bhaal Battlefield 2142 Bioshock Black & White Call of Duty IV: Modern Warfare City of Heroes City of Villains Civilization III Civilization III: Conquests Civilization IV Civilization IV: Warlords Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Counter-Strike: Source Diablo II Diablo II: Lord of Destruction EVE Online Elder Scrolls IV, The: Oblivion F.E.A.R. 2 Project Origin Far Cry Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Guild Wars Half-Life Half-Life 2 Half-Life 2: Episode 1 Half-Life 2: Episode 2 Half-Life: Counter-Strike Homeworld 2 Left 4 Dead Max Payne Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne Medal of Honor: Allied Assault Medal of Honor: Allied Assault Spearhead Need for Speed Carbon Neverwinter Nights 2 Portal Prince of Persia (2008) SPORE SPORE Creature Creator Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords Star Wars: Battlefront Starcraft Team Fortress 2 The Sims 3 Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne World of Warcraft World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Astronomer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Astronomer Posted October 17, 2012 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.49 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Device: Windows Share Posted October 17, 2012 Cedega Technology The Cedega engine supports a wide variety of games through both official and community support. The following is a partial list of games known to be compatible with the Cedega engine. I think Cedega is a fork of the WINE emulation project. Not native Linux, but strong windows emulation. Native is preferable, but if this works well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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