I would really LoVe to entirely remove windows from my hdd, but i still need it to play my favorite games (warcraft, vice city and such) and i am wondering if it is possible to make these games work on linux (since they are .exe i don't think u can run them without special software)

i have heard of wine, but since it is still a very young and glitchy software, should i try to tackle the games with wine or keep windows?

Well, WINE has been being worked on for MANY years, so its not young.

But what you want is WineX. Its a pay-only version of WINE made especially for games.

And it works w/ both those games.

transgaming.com

Before that can be answered, what exactly are your reasons for wanting to switch to linux?

i'm switching because i want to try something new and learn more about computers, i want to be in an environment where programming will be necessary (so i can learn some programming), and i cannot stand windows much longer

winex sounds interesting, i'll look into that
are there any other ways?

you don't need to know programming to use Linux. I don't know any programming and im doing just fine.

WineX is great,...

I have the following running with version 3.1 and my Mandrake 8.2 installation:

Jedi Outcast
Elite Force
StarCraft
Jedi Knight
Fallout
Fallout 2
Pax Imperia
Star Trek: Birth of the Federation
StarFleeet Academy

I have the following Native games:

Descent 3
Quake 3 Arena
Sim City 3000
Terminus
Neverwinter Nights
Return to Castle Wolfenstein (I had problems setting up this one so I used WineX for it and currently don't have it installed).
FreeSpace: The Great War
FreeSpace 2

I heard that you can get the following running with Wine,...

Imperium Galacticia II (no under WineX for me)
Spiderman (non-movie version, again, no luck for me)
Starfleet Command II & SFC 2: Orion Pirates (no luck for me, too hard to configure)

So you can see there is no lack of gaming potential.

I have also had more luck with Jedi Outcast under WineX than as a Windoze native (driver conflicts, etc.).

Keep in mind that you do not NEED Wine-X. Thats just a work around and it doesn't help support game makers with adding GNU/Linux support.


Quake3, RTCW, Never Winter Nights and a few others work great, natively in under GNU/Linux, better then windows even.

How do you install Q3 native in Lnx???

GodFoca

If want to be a Linux gamer I would recommend getting a nVidia Geforce card. There isn't currently any driver support for ATI (Radeon) cards which means you will get like 3 fps when playing even Tux Racer :P.

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I am running a Radeon 7500 and it works fine. I have no problem running TuxRacer or OpenGL Games. Check this link for all cards that are supported http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status.html

I am having the exact opposite problem, however. I have a GeForce 2 MX 400, and can't find any drivers for Linux, so not only the 3D games are going in 3fps, but also I can't get my resolution below 640x480 and thus I can't play Tux Racer @#$&%.

Anyways, anybody knows where do I get some drivers???

GodFoca

GodFoca, try nvidia.com. There you can choose your driver (actually its only one driver for all nvidia cards). Read the readme's and install. If you do everything there, you'll have a working 3d accelerated environment!

Why would you want to get your resolution below 640x480 to play Tux Racer? Maybe above 640x480...

hmm, very interesting about installing games natively on linux

so games like never winter nights u can basically put into your cd drive and it will install just fine?

also, with getting winex, u need to subscribe for 3 months for 5 bucks a month correct?

o ya, could anyone find some info saying that ati radeon 9600 is compatible with redhat 9 kernel 2.4.20-8?

Freespace has a native linux client????

OMG...I gotta go and find it woohoo! I loved that game.

When I installed NWN I did it by installing it first on a Windoze machine, then copying over the files I needed from the windoze box to my RedHat box, and then finally installing the NWN linux client. I believe that there is an installer that was written to allow installing of the game direct from CD, but I just followed the directions on the NWN site.

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