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Re: Games on Linux?



On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 10:57:32AM -0000, Shri Shrikumar wrote:
> It is soooooo sucky that you get so many good games for windows like Half
> Life and Diablo II and very few for Linux. I for one would like to see more
> games supporting the linux os. I obviously wouldn't expect Microsoft to
> release Age of Empires (a good game) for the linux os but would like
> companies like Blizzard and Valve to put a little more effort into the linux
> OS.

It would be soooo easy on most cases if they just used OpenGL and not Direct3D.
That's why Quake III runs so well under X and nonOpenGL games are so difficult
to port...

I have absolutelly no idea why anyone would use Direct3D instead of OpenGL
but then that's my POV.. :)

- Adam



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