Linux gaming...

[jimmt]

Originally posted by gateways_rule
That emulation for windows gaming is awful. You get over a 50% decrease in gaming. I doubt a lot of people will use software like that anyways because a lot of the popular games are already on Linux. Also, Nvidia makes awesome drivers for Linux.

I don't know, I have had pretty good success with WineX and Wine. Give them time. They are outstanding products that is getting better with every release.

Jim

[Racer^]

I agree with jimmt.

The numbers looked very good for a product that has only recently hit the market. The 50 fps limit seems to only be a limitation of the emulation software that will be fixed very soon. I am almost willing to say that the 50 fps limit was a setting in the OS that could have been changed, but I don't know that for sure. In any case, this would seem to be a trivial problem that will soon be remedied and allow people to reach 100+ fps in the older games soon.

As for some of the "newer" games that ran at around 20 fps, some of the mappings from DirectX->OpenGL currently require a bit of software emulation to get everything to work right. This is a huge bottleneck and may be remedied with new drivers or at least optimized software emulation in the future. As a result, I expect frame rates to double to at least playable rates on DX8 games within a year. With a little luck, DX8 will be playable at the holy 60 fps soon.