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jswackh
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 4:33 pm    Post subject: 64bit games for Opteron AMD64 systems Reply with quote

Hello all,

I have an Opteron Gentoo system setup in my store. Does anyone know where I can get some of the 64bit games/demos i.e. ut2003 to put on this system?
I have searched for quite a while, but have come up empty so far.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 9:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

BTW I work in Omaha NE ( and live in Fremont)
There are no end user games that I have been able to find for AMD64 Native.

I run everything from Gentoo, Redhat (Fedora), Mandrake, Suse, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and MAC OS X.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 2:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

well, for many of the older games, companies have released the sources or projects have been able to make engines capable of playing the original games. how it works: emerge "game name" . get the real cd, and copy the .pak files to a directory. tell the compiled game engine where that is. play it.

whether or not the sources for games a modern as ut2003 are out i'm not sure (my machine is too slow to know).

please do report your success/failurs. i'm very interested in getting AMD64 soon (waiting on the next paycheck to be exact). for games with sources avail, i wanted to do a comparison of frame rates between a 32bit AthlonXP stage and a 64bit AMD64 stage - i'm curious for myself how much a difference it makes (granted the game engines are outdated and built for 32bit machines)
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