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On Thursday 20 September 2007 10:56, James Kilty wrote: > On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 09:30 +0100, Paul Sutton wrote: > > Perhaps it would be a good idea to have a spec sheet next to each > > computer used, especially for the VM ware demos, partly so people know > > what hardware its running on, and to dispel any myths you need super > > fast hardware and lots of RAM (even though this helps) for software such > > as VM ware to run on. > > If we are talking graphics cards, maybe Stephen's machines will not be > high spec, unless people want to play multi-player internet games. No need for hi-spec graphics cards for vm use, but for games, a reasonable spec card helps. But you can run games via wine with a similar spec card to that used for the same game in Windows. Half Life for example runs fine with a fairly old card. > > > I remember also at an Exeter University meeting, we had 1/2 life > > running really well using wine (or cedega), so thats really > > impressive, so modern games running well on newish hardware would > > generate interest from those of us who like playing games, and see that > > as a barrier to a full switch to OSS. > > Excellent. I am sure we can have a games corner - are you able to set up > wine and/or cedega or both on one of his machines?? > -- > James Kilty > http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk Doom3 runs well on a Linux box - but it needs a reasonable graphics card to show the effects off. Half Life, as I mentioned, is fine, as is Unreal Tournament - the newer versions need correspondingly higher spec cards of course. Quake3 runs well under wine and looks good even with a lowish spec card. Setting up wine is not a problem - we can download it on the day and set it up fairly quickly. Cedega is commercial (or the much harder to set up cvs version), so unless someone has a cedega registered version, we may be better sticking to wine. Mark -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html