Suggested Linux Games... Help me.. lol

Rukie

Hi all, I'm a former windowz user and well, I used quite a few different games like Starcraft, Age of Empries, Asheron's Call (MMORPG), Command and Conquer, Typhoon Rising, Enemy-Territory...

Now I'm on linux and I play..... Enemy-Territory... anyways...
Any suggested games with decent graphics you can suggest? I personally like Strategy and FPS games...
and money, I don't want to spend it :p Thats why i came to Linux.., not to mention the stability... :-D

Btw, unrelated.. What do I do to use my WinTV card? hehe
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frostschutz · Advocate Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 2977 Location: Germany

armagetronad ;-)

BlackEdder · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:38 pm Post subject:

RTS: warzone2100
darwinia (commercial)
tribaltrouble (commercial)

TBS: wesnoth

FPS: ut2004 (commercial)
doom3 (commercial)

Others: lugaru (commercial)

Evo · Apprentice Joined: 10 Aug 2003 Posts: 155

Legends, a tribes 2 clone.

Rukie · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:00 pm Post subject:

Oh, I just switched to a hardened kernel fromthe regular gentoo-sources one.. and uhm...

nvidia drivers dont' work anymore

so I changed back to regular nv drivers....

all my programs work except one.. Enemy-Territory *cry*
Any ideas on that or should this be in the kernel section...?

Thanks for the ideas! and btw, I hate tron :p
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Wolven · Guru Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 325 Location: Norway

Battle for Wesnoth - Strategy (free)
Globulation 2 - Strategy (free)
Alpha Centauri - Strategy (commercial)

Also check out these two liks: http://tuxgames.com/ and http://happypenguin.org

Wolven · Guru Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 325 Location: Norway

Rukie · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:04 pm Post subject:

Yes, nvidia-settings and nvidia-kernel
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sirdilznik · l33t Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 731

Neverwinter Nights, ut2003, ut2004, Doom3, Return to Castle Wolfenstein - These are all EXCELLENT

games that run natively under linux... however they are commercial so unless you already own them, you'll have to dish out some $ :cry:

As far as free games go: Torcs, Wesnoth, Cube, Warsow, Supertux (some of these don't have the greatest graphics, but are loads of fun nontheless)

Also you can play some of your Winblows games under emulation (wine, cedega). I used to run Morrowind and WoW under cedega and they ran better than they ever did under Winblows natively :wink:

I don't play these anymore as I got bored of Morrowind (took a LONG time, EXCELLENT game) after I beat the expansions and I stopped being a sucker and dishing out $15 a month to see "login server down" (World of Warcraft). I only buy Linux native now (Thank you Epic and Id for supporting my OS, I will continue to purchase your awesome products).

P.S. Quake4 and Serious Sam2 will also have native linux ports shortly after they come out for M$ systems ($commercial games)

Wolven · Guru Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 325 Location: Norway

Ok. Then I suggest you first search for a solution, then make a post in the Desktop Environments forum about your problem if you can't find any. Try to include as much relevant information as possible.

Xaid · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:30 pm Post subject:

Rukie,
I'm running a hardened system with no problems with the nvidia driver or games.
A few things to note, most of the programs that need OpenGL will need their MPROTECT flag disabled since the Nvidia GL libraries were not compiled with PIC (someone correct me here if I'm wrong), also, I'm on a Pentium 4 and having PAGEEXEC enabled gives a serious blow to performance, so if you have a similar setup then you should disable PAGEXEC when configueing your kernel.

For example, suppose you want to run ET. then you need to disable MPROTECT, and since ET was not compiled by you (thus its not compiled with PIC) you will need to use the chpax utililty to disable the MPROTECT flag (otherwise, if you compiled the app with PIC you can you paxctl).

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Rukie · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:18 am Post subject:

I currently have no pax/grsec related options enabled, no rsbac optoins installed, and no selinux options because I'm on a reiser 3.4 filesystem

Also, after I switched to this kernel I had some major trouble with in future modification times n such.. ran a make clean and remade everything, from a livecd boot...

then I ran an emerge -e and I believe pic is enabled in my use flags..
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Rukie · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:08 am Post subject:

forgot about that one..
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Rukie · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:51 am Post subject:

nv, not nvidia. I reset my xorg.conf file to nvidia after reemerging nvidia-glx but I'm also doing schoolwork.. so I dont' want to crash this before I print out my stuff :-D

Currently (before changes) they reason why ET doesn' twork is unkown to me, basically the system locks up... i get a black screen, then it shows me the desktop again, but I can't click on anything or.. do anything, I can't even control alt backspace out of x11..

Edit: I also noticed quicktime4linux and xzgv will not emerge.... compile error---but it doesn't give the reason why there's an error! lol
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sirdilznik · l33t Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 731

what nvidia drivers where you using ? For whatever reason I always had trouble with the 6629 drivers (I dunno why these are STILL the latest drivers marked stable). Once I switched to the latest drivers (originally 7667, then 7676) by unmasking them I never had any problems. This could be just an amd 64 issue for me tho.
, anyways the 7676 drivers kick <donkey behind>.

TenPin · Guru Joined: 26 Aug 2002 Posts: 500 Location: Kansas City

Games I play are:

crack-attack
xbubble
flobopuyo
warsow (http://www.warsow.net)

I also played through Half Life 1 and Deus Ex 1 under wine and thoroughly enjoyed them both.
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Rukie · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 11:30 am Post subject:

Hmm, how do I unmask the nvidia drivers? (not inpackage.mask)
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BlackEdder · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 11:37 am Post subject:

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Sachankara · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 8:54 pm Post subject:

Moofed · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 9:22 pm Post subject:

Gish (platform game with a physics engine, commercial, demo in portage)
Scorched3D
Quake3 w/ Tremulous mod (soon to be a standalone game)
Savage (fps/rts, kinda commercial? I heard you don't need a cdkey to play anymore)
Vendetta Online (mmorpg/fps space shooter, commercial)
Neverball

Plus some others people already said, UT2004, wesnoth, SMAC, ET.

Rukie · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 9:30 pm Post subject:

Sachankara, I turned on static, but I didn't turn on dll loader (because dll loader said nvidia would work)

Anyways, how do I turn off static for xorg?

Edit: Sweet! After testing my comp out some more.. I can finally mount floppies and cdroms... (Haven't checked dvd's yet)
Unfortunately I still cannot mount my zip drive..

Also, I can't mount blank cdroms.. so how do I mount a blank cdrom and burn iso or copy backups onto a cd-r cdrom
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