Can you play games in Ubuntu yet?

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AnthroAndStargate

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Has Linux gotten the ability to allow me to play games in Linux/Ubuntu yet via programs like WINE, etc.

And when I say play them I don't mean laggy ports - but play them with friends online as I can in XP. I am thinking about porting tonight and if I can now run games like BF2/2142 and TF2 in Ubuntu then i'm there.
 
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AnthroAndStargate

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Thanks for the help Brazen.

Dangit.. Looks like linux still cant do any good games. Be back in a few years to see if it can then!

Back to windows! :p
 
cKGunslinger

cKGunslinger

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They say you can play most of everything (every game I've looked up, at least,) but I'll be damned if I've gotten the first one to work with Wine.

I'd probably switch my main PC to Gutsy Gibbon, if I could only get WoW to work.
 
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mHubs

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I tried to get tf2 working with wine but i got tons of stuttering which made it pretty unplayable even at 60-70fps
In the end I'm giving up and sticking with vista on my gaming machine, ubuntu on my laptop
 
Nothinman

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Dangit.. Looks like linux still cant do any good games. Be back in a few years to see if it can then!
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Linux is great at games when the developers actually care to port them.
 
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Fox5

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WoW actually has pretty good support in Linux just from its massive userbase.

Between Wine, Crossover Office, Cedega, and a virtualized OS (I recommend win2000), at least one of those will get WoW working on just about any system.
 
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silverpig

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Originally posted by: Nothinman
Dangit.. Looks like linux still cant do any good games. Be back in a few years to see if it can then!
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Linux is great at games when the developers actually care to port them.
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I played quake 3 and 4, as well as doom 3, UT, and UT2004 on my linux install. They all ran great. I just wish valve had made HL2 for linux. I played through it several times on windows, but since I ditched XP for linux exclusively I haven't even played Episode I, let alone Episode II. And I really want to.
 
Cogman

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Wine, or a virtual machine will be your best bet (I would go with wine personally). It should be noted that you still take a performance hit when going to linux through wine (ranging anywhere from 20% - 5%) the only place wine accels over windows is in CPU performance. That leads me to believe that the 3d drivers for linux are just not up to snuff yet (Nvidia offers the best solution, but it is closed source)
 
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Fox5

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Originally posted by: Nothinman
Edit: Or do I stand corrected?
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It's only very basic support right now, just like DX8.1 or something.
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And slow. With my radeon x1950xt, it had me wishing I had my voodoo3 back.
Granted, ati linux drivers suck, but 3dmark01 should not bring my system to its knees in the way 3dmark06 or 07 might.
OpenGL rendering is software only, so it's dead slow as well. A 5fps in a 4000 polygon scene? Ouch.

Wine, Cedega, or Crossover Office should be able to play more popular games at decent speeds (such as the halflife series and WoW), though I wouldn't trust linux gaming on an ati card at all. Wine supposendly works with halflife 2, but I've never got it running on my ati card.
Nvidia drivers are close to the performance and feature set of their windows drivers, but ati's suck.

Wine is good for simpler stuff, but their shader emulation is not anywhere near full speed for directx. (opengl stuff is fine) Cedega I think fairs better, but it's on a game by game basis.
 
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