Linux Gaming

A Few Small Questions

[IcedCardeo]

#1. I have been wondering, can anyone tell me where I find the fixed .exe's for various games? I have a few that I really would like to run, but people say I have to have the "fixed" .exe so that I can play.

#2. How is Linux Gaming compared to Win Gaming? I haven't ever gamed before on linux. ( I have a Nvidia Gefore 5600 128MB DDR card btw).

#3. I think I'm going with either Suse 9.0 or Mandrake 9.2

[ORBiTrus]

1) I do believe a fixed exe is a cracked exe. And it is against forum rules to state such info. But that's probably enough. Watch out for virii! Good thing it's linux.

2) Linux gaming rocks if the game supports OpenGL (Warcraft 3, etc.) or has a port (Freespace, Descent, UT2003). Otherwise... you need WineX for the DX support and the wrapping takes cycles. More so it's l33t to game with the penguin.

3) Well, good choices. I recently tried out SuSE 9 Pro (from ed2k network, sorry SuSE but I wasn't keeping it), and although I'm back to my standard RedHat 9 (up from 7.3) I was quite impressed with Yast 2. Though the partitioning section was a little tricky to do by hand.
And I've heard nothing but good things about Mandrake 9.2 GE.

[RainMaker]

If you are wondering about how Linux Games compared to windowns Gaming is, well It's much better. with supported games such as Quake 3, you will notice a complete difference in the performance. Things just work better in Linux. Make sure that you install the Latest drivers for your Card. You say that you have an Nvidia chipset. Well The Drivers are typically a .run file so installing those will be easy. After that Some of the games to install for linux CAN be a pain. But typically they aren't. Performance though I would definatly choose Linux over windows. In my years of Quake and Unreal Tournament or any game that uses the Quake 3 engine you can notice about 20-30 frame increase and less choppiness in it itself. Win XP I would say on average about a 10 frame increase. All in all, if you can find a game to support Linux, go with it. If it's a DirectX Game I would think that you would be defeating your purpose installing the game in a Linux Machine. That is just my opinion though.