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No problem, a lot of people are confused by this so it's not like you're the first person to get this wrong. Let me clear it up for you.
You see, in the case of the Mac they can run games but won't run them before they've been properly beta tested by Windows users. Once enough of them have called for technical support and a majority of their problems have been worked out then, and only then will the Mac conceed to running a game.
I feel your pain. The wife and I have been happily blowing each other away for a couple of months, ever since we picked up a copy of the original UT in a discount bin.
The original runs great on my laptop (16MB Radeon Mobility video), but UT2004 is barely playable under Direct3D, even at the lowest resolution and texture settings. Performance using the SW renderer was even worse.
As luck would have it, I recently upgraded HER machine with a 128MB Radeon 9200, and UT2004 runs like a champ there.
Does this mean that the "average linux computer" is no longer going to be a 200MHz AMD, and the K icon will start to be seen on glow-in-the-dark quad-processor computers with jet engine noises coming from the graphics cards?
What sort of 3D accelerator do you use to get nethack running right? I've got a Radeon 9100 and it still seems to be running at the lowest resolution with 16 colors when I try it, also it seems to have downgraded to ASCII characters since my graphics card is obviously too poor to run such a bloated game.
That reminds me of the doom port that made all the monsters PIDs on your system. If you shot it it would re-nice the process and if you killed it it would kill the process. Very fun, and dangerous, and cool idea.
When asked why you are playing a video game on the production server you can just say that you had to kill a few processes that had become stale.
Thats my problem also, but I realised I spent more time complaining about being bored than being productive and just grabbed a copy of win2k3c(..from the store..) so I can resume my gaming addiction. Of course then I started gaming all day and now have zero productivity.. damn counter-strike/natural selection/day of defeat/wc3/whatever else is lurking on my machine.
Linux games (Score:4, Funny)
Wait, wait... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wait, wait... (Score:2, Funny)
BeOS? (Score:5, Funny)
Great... (Score:4, Funny)
This isn't going to help any...
Thanks, thanks a lot.
Re:Ported to the big three (Score:5, Funny)
LAN party at Kethinov's house!
Re:Wait, wait... (Score:5, Funny)
This is great... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:BeOS? (Score:2, Funny)
Forget BeOS, what about a GeOS version?!?!
Re:Hardware + Software = happiness (Score:2, Funny)
a PC?
Re:Linux games (Score:1, Funny)
Re:This is not right (Score:0, Funny)
Re:This is not right (Score:5, Funny)
I have to keep reminding my boss of that.
"What's that you're playing there?"
"It's, um, it's a system administration system tool system! Yes, that's it! Look, [Ctrl-Alt-F1] it's on Linux! No games, remember!"
"Ah, yes, that's okay then. Carry on."
Phew.
Re:From a dual 1.8 G5 user (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This is great... (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Wait, wait... (Score:5, Funny)
You see, in the case of the Mac they can run games but won't run them before they've been properly beta tested by Windows users. Once enough of them have called for technical support and a majority of their problems have been worked out then, and only then will the Mac conceed to running a game.
Linux is like that too.
Re:Linux games (Score:4, Funny)
The original runs great on my laptop (16MB Radeon Mobility video), but UT2004 is barely playable under Direct3D, even at the lowest resolution and texture settings. Performance using the SW renderer was even worse.
As luck would have it, I recently upgraded HER machine with a 128MB Radeon 9200, and UT2004 runs like a champ there.
Guess she gets to win for a while
I'm holding out (Score:3, Funny)
The OS/2 community will NOT disappear into the night without a fight!
Re:Linux games (Score:1, Funny)
So, what's it like having a wife with a cock?
Re:Great... (Score:1, Funny)
A few other words: a decent Internet connection.
Re:Wait, wait... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:From a dual 1.8 G5 user (Score:4, Funny)
Come on, you have to blame someone! This is Slashdot!
Re:Ported to the big three (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Linux games (Score:3, Funny)
RMS (Score:5, Funny)
And somewhere an unconventional fellow with long hair and a beard feels joy about this game for a different reason than other people...
Re:BeOS? (Score:4, Funny)
Man, I've been waiting _years_ for a new game to come out for that!
gentoo ebuild (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Linux games (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Wait, wait... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This is not right (Score:3, Funny)
When asked why you are playing a video game on the production server you can just say that you had to kill a few processes that had become stale.
Re:This is not right (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Linux games (Score:4, Funny)
Sounds like you're both winning.
Though if it's hurting that much, maybe you should do it less often.
Yeah (Score:1, Funny)
Re:You aren't missing too much. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Linux games (Score:1, Funny)
Re:You aren't missing too much. (Score:2, Funny)