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- pHr34kY, on 10/10/2007, -3/+56OMG You can run 'Rise of the Triad' on Linux?! why didn't anyone tell me before?!
- omarciddo, on 10/10/2007, -3/+383D Pong!? ***** YES!
- acid0426, on 10/10/2007, -17/+43I'd rather have clicked on "HUGE List of Drivers for Linux, check it out!"
- floam, on 10/10/2007, -16/+40Linux has games!?
- PrimoTurbo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+25If you have an Nvidia card then you can play games like Doom3 and Quake4 with the same or better fps then on Windows. With ATI you get worse fps in general. Also there is a huge lack of commercial game support for Linux, basically only Id games and a few others are native games. Everything else you need to run through wine which slows it down and you get various bugs.
- derjames, on 10/10/2007, -4/+21Dugg for the word 'Linux' instead of 'Ubuntu'...
- SteelyDuran, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17Hell yeah. While you weren't looking, we were having crazy fun.
- Toshibi, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17Man, we used to play Rise of the Triad on the college LAN for HOURS! That game was so sweet...in 1996...
- InvisibleKid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16Nice list, but they missed Alien Arena 2007
- harlowsmonkeys, on 10/10/2007, -3/+19When was that list last updated? It has links to Loki games on it, and Loki has been out of business for many years.
- vinbob, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18"I've got an Opteron machine with dual 7900GTs and I wouldn't dream of putting Linux or any other UNIX-like OS on it, because frankly the hardware would be wasted"
This is a stale view and smacks of fanboyism. I have exclusively used Linux for around 6 years and gaming is great on my Core 2 Quad/Dual 7900GT/8GB RAM which runs Fedora 7, my earlier comment included a few notable titles but don't take that as definitive.
Just open your mind a little and stop trying to one-up people. - fydo, on 10/10/2007, -6/+21What a great list! I think games on linux are fantastic.
Also, great thanks to the maintainer of this list: zakk. - RobotBuddha, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16On a technological level, it's a great platform. I do a fair amount of 3D code on it and haven't seen any drawbacks. However, I don't think it's helped by lists like this where 3D pong is listed. The fact is that it's pretty bad in terms of game selection.
- 2kude, on 10/10/2007, -3/+17Wow, I use Linux daily and even I think this is a pathetic attempt at getting people to think the Linux gaming scene is going strong.
- Waskonator, on 10/10/2007, -3/+17This is going to sound dumb. Actually, it is dumb. But i need to know.
How good are Linux systems when it comes to gaming? Obviously it is new to the platform. What i want to know is, on the higher end, does it keep up with your standard PC? Does it hold water to becoming a well rounded platform?
Thoughts? Answers? - Sabretou, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Unreal Tournament 2004 owns you.
- KungFuJesus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12if you have nvidia you'll get great performance, not so much with ATi
- Xilon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11No...
The problem is that commercial companies don't support linux and hence linux pretty much only has a select few (namely id software) games that are equivalent to Windows, and the rest are pretty crap (usually open source) games... The reason they are "crap" (some are actually good, but with poor graphics) is because they don't have funding and usually don't have more than a couple developers.
*cough* Microsoft has made a monopoly due to directX *cough* - Phil8, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9that's what she said :'(
- vinbob, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11"How good are Linux systems when it comes to gaming?"
The graphics driver response is true, simply buy Nvidia and all will be good.
Also the Linux filesystems such as ext3 & reiserfs are more efficient and therefore faster than microsoft filesystems (FAT32 & NTFS) so loading times are also reduced and have virtually no overhead.
I run Linux exclusively and I find the gaming support great.
There are many native Linux games, the most notable commercial games being the Unreal Tournament games & games from iD such as all the Doom/Quake engine games, this will include UT3 & Quake Wars: ET.
Then on top of those there's the range of native free/open source games such as Open Arena, Nexuiz, Sauerbraten, Tremulous, Lincity-NG, Alien Arena, Action Cube etc.
Granted you can't run *all* Windows games with wine or Cedega but the best ones are usually supported and run just as fast if not faster than Windows systems, those games such as Counter Strike, the Half Life games, Battlefield 2142, WoW, C&C, the NFS games etc and that's enough gaming for most people. Not all Windows games are worth playing anyway.
BTW the linked list is very old, and there are better sites to trawl, just Google for Linux games or something, or open up your package manager and browse. - WorldGroove, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11Windows has a gaming selection *way beyond* Linux.... and if you're open to the world of Japanese-PC-action games, then it's just virtually infinite.
Most hardcore Linux people will tell you that the only reason they have a Windows-OS around, is 'cuz all the games are on it. - Fartag, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Huge "lists" of drivers come with the kernel generally. Go to www.kernel.org and download a kernel (say, 2.6.22.1). Unpack it and do:
make menuconfig
(or several other GUI, TUI, configure methods)
from inside the unpacked directory. From here you can configure your own new kernel however you like, add what you want, set what you want to set, include or exclude things as modules and other things. It's pretty damned educational in there. This doesn't affect your current kernel, only the configuration for a kernel you may want to later install. Check out 'Device Drivers' section if you want device related drivers, it's better than a web page list. - Genma, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8yes, including not one but TWO versions of pong!!
- aaronm67, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Nobody is trying to convince you Linux is good for gaming. There are plenty of amazing games for Linux (Tremulous, OpenTTD, UT2004, UT3 soon, etc), and most "classic" games (Starcraft, Half Life, Diablo II, etc) are supported very well in Wine. If you're looking for a bleeding edge gaming PC to play all the newest games, Linux isn't your best option, and nobody is trying to convince you that it is. These are just helpful lists to help people find out whats out there...
- lordmike, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Where's Hunt the Wumpus?
- aaronm67, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6OpenTTD is based off the original Transport Tycoon, and they added a lot of pretty cool features, and fixed a lot of annoying things.
www.openttd.org - DigitalCreators, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Huge? It's okay but it's not huge..
- TimeDoctor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5It is my list, and I still like Loki's games. E-mail in some new suggestions.
- init100, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Nobody knows except ATI, but it has to be if ATI don't want to completely give up the Linux market to nVidia and Intel.
- seanmc303, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Not so. Wine or Cedega can run most all of the big titles that come out within a month or two of their release. Generally speaking, the "good" games usually receive highest priority and are developed for first. Sure it can take a little getting used to installing a game a little different or you may encounter some weird stuff along the way, but if you want Linux gaming the fairly easy way, use Cedega. I used to run Windows and Ubuntu side by side, and I played all the same games on both systems. I have not booted to Windows in 2 months now because Ubuntu runs my games faster.
- Liggmin, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7you suck.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4is there a chance of Playing Transport tycoon??
- Fartag, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4In ancient bsdgames package:
apt-get install bsdgames
I actually try atc (air traffic controller game) in that package a while back to see what was in it and it's pretty good, for text anyway. :/ - srg13, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Wine is better than Cedega, and it runs some games (eg Source based) really well. But otherwise, there's a lot to be desired..
- brharri1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3"Where areeeee youu?" "Over heeeere"
- prammy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I really have not had any issues with audio or video support on any of my machines. Granted I don't buy HP or emachines desktops etc but I don't think I have had a sound card which was not supported fully under Linux or FreeBSD in over 10 years.
- 35263526, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I'm going to have to disagree with that. I use Cedega and my experience has been nowhere near as good as what you're suggesting. it may 'run' many relatively new titles, but most certainly not without often crippling bugs. Cedega is still pretty good, but you're not going to be able to play most new releases with it to any real degree.
- EvilMoose, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Certain games require that you modify the sound buffer or you'll get underruns. Although there has been vast improvement in the way audio preforms in Linux in general, there is still a giant leap that needs to be done to it.
- fxfighter, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Really? Mine runs at least 10-15fps slower under Ubuntu than Windows XP Pro (I dual-boot since I don't find linux very good for gaming at all; logitech peripherals don't help :P)
Can you tell me specifically how you are running it and what FPS difference you get between Ubuntu and Windows? - Aninhumer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3If you're asking about performance, Linux can certainly keep up with, and often surpass, Windows on the games that are available.
However, although there are many cool games available, the choice really is nowhere near as vast. - AirRaven, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2"Laaaaaa da daaaaaaa!"
- arjie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Actually, I'm going to sound stupid for this, but I used to play the game over and over again when I was a kid alone. Yes, me, alone vs. that goddamned triad in that kill the triad mode. Watching the drunk missiles was just too much fun. You may now return to your regularly scheduled programming.
- marx2k, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Is this actually in the pipeline or are you just talking ***** here?
- TomTruelle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2***** good times...
- JohnnyXmas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Title Correction: "Huge List of Games for Linux, Check it Out (pending you got your %*&#&*$^$ ATI DRIVERS to work."
- Lowrads, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It's more an issue of your graphics libraries than your operating system. Open GL(gfx libraries) was an effort at an industry standard that's been around for a fair bit of time. Microsoft set out to make a proprietary alternative in the mid 90s, the precursor to the DirectX franchise, and succeeded beyond all expectations through the use of marketing, and probably a lot of developer support or something. Most publishers tend to aim for reliance on DirectX mostly because 1)all of the customers of their competitors are using it, and secondarily 2) because support is probably easier to obtain.
It's really Microsoft's ace in the sleeve tbh. - SteveMax, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Before a troll starts with "OMFG U NEED TO DO ALL THIS TO RUN A DRIVERS LINUXES SUX!!!!11one", I'll say that most distros already come with most of those drivers (at least those that someone might use) already compiled and ready to be used. The OS will only load those that are needed by your system.
You don't need to compile anything to run Linux on most common hardware. To get a list of available drivers, you can do:
ls -R /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/ - pat7089, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2If you can get them installed, and configured properly, games run very well on Linux. I've had some luck installing Windows games, but not without some workarounds.
- Cl1mh4224rd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2> "I'd say that the reason why F/OSS games are crap is because these projects lack good artists."
That's the problem with FOSS: lots of good programmers willing to work a little bit for free, but virtually no good artists willing to do anything beyond some ***** icon sets. - init100, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It sure does. I hadn't heard about this game before, but I'm definitely going to try it.
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