Re: The Perfect Linux gaming Box
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 01:46:45PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 06/27/07 11:34, Orestes leal wrote:
> >Hi Folks,
> >
> >I want that some of the members of the group comments something
> >about hard core gaming boxes under Linux, what kind of configuration
> >I need to play *ALL* Titles and *ALL* forms of games, 3d games like
> >Doom3, etc in linux with a performance closely like win32 and DirectX.
> >
> >NOTE: CPU, VGA, MEMORY, etc.
>
> Doom plays very well on Red Hat 4.2 and a 486DX2 with 16MB RAM and a
> Tseng Labs ET4000/w23i.
>
> Nethack plays just dandy on a VAX 11/750, as long as a VT102 is
> connected to it.
As far as the video capabilities of different hardware is concerned; I
can suggest:
apt-get install mythtv-doc
and have a read through it. Any other -doc packages, like mplayer-doc,
are also interesting reading. There are links to hardware compatibility
lists etc.
Any other thoughts?
--
Chris.
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