Hello there folks.
Well I've been trying to use Linux on and off for a while now, but the rebooting to XP to play games always gets me

I've tried getting WoW and Guild Wars to run but so far with no success I have 1900XT card and drivers that came with Ubuntu 7.10 ( I had to enable them IIRC ). Compiz is working ok I guess (don't have anything to compare it with) and the card should be enough to play at least some games.

So what games (except for the Linux native ones Quakes, Dooms and NWN afaik) did you guys get running on ATi cards? I'll use Cedega if needed no problem.

I understand Linux is not a gaming platform but I would only like to get a quick gaming fix here and there

Thank you for your time!

I got Unreal Tournament 2004 working with my ATI Radeon 7000 (The Linux Version). However, I can not get Doom 3 or Quake 4 running because of Driver issues. For id for me it is everything below Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory.

I personally do not see why people criticize Linux gaming. I have become more of a Gamer since I came to Linux. My two favourite Types of games are First Person Shooters and Real Time Strategy Games. When it comes to First Person Shooters, there ae many great Linux ones to chose from. Unfourtanatly, when it comes to Real Time Strategy you do not have much options= though. Bos Wars is okay, but it is no Age of Empires.

I have never been a fan of RPGs or MMORPGS, I know there a plenty Linux RPGs, and a few MMORPGS.

My suggestion is to look at these sites:
http://www.happypenguin.org/
http://linux.strangegamer.com/index.php?title=Game_List

NWN
UT2K4
WOW
GuildWars
Doom3
Diable II + Expansion
Starcraft + Expansion
World of Warcraft 3 + Expansion
Steam
...
A bunch more.

Turn off compiz. OpenGL and Compiz don't always mix well for gaming.

nomb

What card do you have nomb? And what drivers did you use?

I have an ati Radeon x1300 mobility in my laptop using the fglrx drivers. Plays everything but doom3 which I play on my desktop running an ati x700 with the fglrx driver.

Wow
Starcraft
Diablo
Warcraft 3
Star Wars battlefront

That was on RHEL 5
on Fedora 8 every game above is displayed upside down

Hey nomb how did you get wow to work?

Wine can run it.

How did I get which to work? Or do you mean the card itself?

I'm not sure if the card has much anything to do with getting some specific games work, as long as the card+drivers are working all right and the game's specs say it runs on that card. Not sure what it does if you're trying to run games when compiz fusion (or equivalent) is running, I've seen some troublematic situations there, though I'm not sure if they should have anything to do with compiz fusion. Nevertheless, not having CF running will probably result in performance boost (noticeable or not).

So it boils down to "how did you get the games running anyway". Cedega is an option, Wine is another (note: Cedega is a sort of Wine fork, but with some work put into it so it'll run with DirectX apps more smoothly, and patched to be able to run some games that don't want to run on Wine). Running a virtualized Windows operating system is an option too, but it'll eat resources and probably results in a sluggish game experience, unless the machine is powerful enough or the game's requirements are really small..

If you guys play games a lot, I'd like to suggest you to buy a gaming console to do it - then you wouldn't have to reboot all the time, wouldn't have to worry about drivers, installations or emulators; just play I know all the new game cadgets are expensive (especially PS3 atm), and that they'll be old in a year or few, but that's how it goes with PCs too - and in addition you'll get loads of trouble when playing on PC. If cheap = cost-free = pirated games are your reason to play on PC(/Linux), then it won't help much, but otherwise I don't see much sense in not having a gaming console to do the gaming.

There is, of course, one exception: nerds should not buy gaming consoles, because eventually they'll turn them into "normal PCs" too, have a dozen operating systems run on them and therefore it won't help anybody..

yeah im talking about world of warcraft, how did you get it to work?

It ran under wine and cedega.