1. Linux Gaming LOGIN Talk 16/07/2007 3D Gaming Gabriel Noronha

2. 3D Gaming Topics What you need ? Linux Native games Windows games in Linux

3. What you need? 3d Graphics card. Correctly installed.. With the commercial games the system requirements are no different from windows.

4. 3D Graphics card Card Manufacturers in order a preference Nvidia Intel ATI Via (ASROCK/VIA/S3G UniChrome and UniChrome Pro graphics chipsets) SIS (complete garbage)

5. 3D Graphics Cards Problems Closed source Graphics drivers (Nvidia and ATI) Only (non reverse engineered) open source driver is Intel Some models just don't work ATI X series.

6. 3D Graphics Cards Driver installation Ubuntu is real easy search the repos It is worth looking and playing around with drivers as it can change performance. once you've installed your drive you need to reconfigure your xorg file.

7. 3D Graphics Cards Testing glxgears doesn't work. No 3d acceleration scores <1000 incorrect driver or low end graphics card (notebooks or on- board graphics) scores >1000 your ready to game

8. 3D Graphics Cards My System AMD Sempron 2600 Nvidia Fx5500 256mb vram 512 DDR ram sound blaster live Kubuntu 7.04

9. Linux Native Games “Free” Gratis – Beer Enemy Territory Savage “Free” Libre – Speech Planet Penguin racer neverput Not “Free” Quake 4

10. Linux Native Games Low end systems (glxgears < 1000) neverput planet Penguin racer Scorched 3D

11. Linux Native Games Mid range systems (glxgears < 1000) Nexuiz Enemy Territory Quake 4 Savage etc..

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13. Windows Games in Linux Wine The wine application data base http://appdb.winehq.org/ This site is the as useful as you can get for wine. contains the success of other users and installation instructions

14. Commercial Wine Cedega TransGaming Technologies A.K.A WineX Forked from the Wine project before LGPL Focused on Gaming part of the source publicly available via CVS, under a mix of licenses

15. Commercial Wine Cedega TransGaming Technologies Cost $US 5 (AU$ 6 ) per Month (min. 3 Months) Prepackaged binaries Priority access to updates Technical support for Cedega on officially supported titles The right to vote on what TransGaming will work on next http://games.cedega.com/gamesdb

16. Commercial Wine Crossover Linux CodeWeavers A.K.A CrossOver Office Tweaked version of wine. Not open source Supporters of the Open source Wine project Focused on Microsoft Office and other Office productivity based products. Trial versions available

17. Commercial Wine Crossover Linux CodeWeavers Cost CrossOver Linux Standard $US 39.95 6 months Level 3 Technical Support CrossOver Linux Professional $US 69.95 12 months Level 2 Technical Support Enhanced Deployability Features Multi-User Support CrossOver Linux Server Thin Client support etc...

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