Gaming in PClinuxOS
Gaming in PClinuxOS
anyone know how to go about this? i really wanna try
-Austin
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Screamin' BCLK:
775 System (Overclocking Platform): Q8400/Q8300/E8400/E7400/E7500 - GA-EP45-UD3R v1.1 - 4GB (2x2) OCZ Reaper HPC DDR2 1066 CL5 2.1v Corsair TX-750w
Gamer: Asrock Z77 Extreme4, i7 3770K @4.6GHz, ThermalTake Armor A90 modded, 2x4GB GSKILL RipjawsX DDR3 2133 CL9, Corsair HX-750w, MSI GTX660 Twin Frozr
Server2012: Q9300 - 8GB DDR2 - Asus P5QL Pro - Corsair CX430 - Mirrored 2TB Seagate's with 2TB WD cav for fileshare backups, 1TB WD for OS backups
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Alathald
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Re: Gaming in PClinuxOS
Depends on what you want to play, there are lots of good (free) games for linux but not all the games for windows will work in linux. Your best best is to search the repositories (Synaptic has a GUI if you dislike the terminal) for a game that sounds interesting to you and try one of those out before attempting to use Wine or install a virtual machine (such as VMware or VirtualBox).
A few games that I like are FlightGear, Frets on Fire and Tremoulous, all of which can be had in the repos (in Ubuntu at least), but there are plenty more games out there, just install them FROM a package manager (such as Synaptic) unless you know what you're doing.
A few games that I like are FlightGear, Frets on Fire and Tremoulous, all of which can be had in the repos (in Ubuntu at least), but there are plenty more games out there, just install them FROM a package manager (such as Synaptic) unless you know what you're doing.
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Re: Gaming in PClinuxOS
Can't game in VMWare or VirtualBox, they create a virtual video card. Try Cedega or WineAlathald wrote:Depends on what you want to play, there are lots of good (free) games for linux but not all the games for windows will work in linux. Your best best is to search the repositories (Synaptic has a GUI if you dislike the terminal) for a game that sounds interesting to you and try one of those out before attempting to use Wine or install a virtual machine (such as VMware or VirtualBox).
A few games that I like are FlightGear, Frets on Fire and Tremoulous, all of which can be had in the repos (in Ubuntu at least), but there are plenty more games out there, just install them FROM a package manager (such as Synaptic) unless you know what you're doing.
Re: Gaming in PClinuxOS
dont i have to pay for cedega?
-Austin
Screamin' BCLK:
775 System (Overclocking Platform): Q8400/Q8300/E8400/E7400/E7500 - GA-EP45-UD3R v1.1 - 4GB (2x2) OCZ Reaper HPC DDR2 1066 CL5 2.1v Corsair TX-750w
Gamer: Asrock Z77 Extreme4, i7 3770K @4.6GHz, ThermalTake Armor A90 modded, 2x4GB GSKILL RipjawsX DDR3 2133 CL9, Corsair HX-750w, MSI GTX660 Twin Frozr
Server2012: Q9300 - 8GB DDR2 - Asus P5QL Pro - Corsair CX430 - Mirrored 2TB Seagate's with 2TB WD cav for fileshare backups, 1TB WD for OS backups
Screamin' BCLK:
775 System (Overclocking Platform): Q8400/Q8300/E8400/E7400/E7500 - GA-EP45-UD3R v1.1 - 4GB (2x2) OCZ Reaper HPC DDR2 1066 CL5 2.1v Corsair TX-750w
Gamer: Asrock Z77 Extreme4, i7 3770K @4.6GHz, ThermalTake Armor A90 modded, 2x4GB GSKILL RipjawsX DDR3 2133 CL9, Corsair HX-750w, MSI GTX660 Twin Frozr
Server2012: Q9300 - 8GB DDR2 - Asus P5QL Pro - Corsair CX430 - Mirrored 2TB Seagate's with 2TB WD cav for fileshare backups, 1TB WD for OS backups
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Re: Gaming in PClinuxOS
Yeah, $5 a month, first 3 months up front. What windows games are you wanting to play? Most games will work just fine with Wine but I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) Cedega has better support for Steam.skierkid450 wrote:dont i have to pay for cedega?
The only windows game I've tried was Starcraft and that seemed to work well with Wine.
EDIT: Seems you can get a kind of "watered-down" version of Cedega from their CVS, might want take a look at this thread even though it's for Ubuntu...