Linux Games

Cyberclops Cyberclops at hawaii.rr.com
Thu Apr 19 09:24:19 PDT 2001


Are these games guaranteed to install easily on say: SuSE 7.1?

Warren Togami wrote:
> 
> I've only tried Loki's "Civilization: Call to Power" and Quake III Arena.
> CivCTP for Linux seems to be faster and more stable than the Windows
> version... mainly becaus Activision did a very poor job in making their
> game.  Quake III Arena in Linux is the exact same thing, except I think I
> saw benchmark comparisons a year ago showing slightly slower (around 95%)
> framerate in Linux.  I doubt those numbers are representative of the drivers
> available now.
> 
> I'm buying two copies of "Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri".  If we can get 8 more
> orders we can use that 50% LUG price.  This game is awesome... designed by
> the original creator of the "Civilization" games.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dusty" <dusty at sandust.com>
> To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 4:58 PM
> Subject: [luau] Linux Games
> 
> > How do Linux Games compare to their Windows counterparts.  I am asking
> about performance and over all quality on games that run on both Windows and
> Linux?  I have never tried a Linux Game.
> >
> > Dusty
> 
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