settings for a gaming pc

[spoon-man]

Hey ppl

I want to install gentoo agane but I dont know how I should set make.conf and what flags I should use for a gaming pc with video and mp3 playback but with MAX performace?
The last install was 1.4 release so I've been out 4 a bit.

thanks for your input guys.

My pc spec are

Amd sepron 2800+
1g of DDR
nvidia geforce 6600gt agp8
asus A7N8X

[alienjon]

Here's my long list of USE flags. I think that this has helped consolidate my computer for heavier multimedia/game usage than other (development, server) usage. I hope some of it helps!

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USE="7zip aac aalib acpi aim aimextras ati bash-completion bluetooth bzip2
     c++ cairo calendar cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr cdrom chroot cpulimit
     cscope css csv ctype daap dga dhcp dict dio directfb
     disk-cache divx4linux dlopen dnd doc dri dvd dvdr dvdread
     examples exif fbcon fbdev fbsplash ffmpeg firefox flash flatfile
     fontconfig freetype ftp gcj gd gdb gimp gimpprint gkrellm glut glx
     gmail gmailtimestamps gs gtkhtml gzip h323 howl html http image
     imagemagick imap imlib2 irc jikes jit joystick jpeg2k kcal
     kdgraphics kqemu lame lcd ldap lesstif logrotate lzo md5sum mdb
     mem-cache mime ming mjpeg mng mono mp4live mpeg2 mpeg4 mplayer
     mysql net netpbm no-old-linux nptl nsplugin ntfs ogre
     openssh openssl pcre pdf php ppds rdesktop rss samba scp screen sftp
     sharedmem snmp sockets spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl stream subtitles svg
     svga svgz sysfs szip tidy tiff toolbar transcode type1 v4l v4l2 vcd
     vcdimager vfat videos vim visualization vlm vnc wifi win32codecs
     wxwindows xml xmlrpc xpm xscreensaver xsl xslt xvid zeroconf -eds
     -emboss -fortran -gdbm -gnome -ipv6 -libg++ -nls -perl -tcpd 3dnow
     3dnowext alsa apache apache2 -arts avi -berkdb browserplugin cli cgi dv encode
     escreen esd flac -gtk -gnome hal hou iconv jpeg kde live mad maps mmx mmxext
     mp3 mplayer music new-login -nptlonly nocd nowin offensive ogg oss opengl quicktime
     qt real session sou sounds symlink vcd vidix vorbis xmms xv xvmc"

[Rodent]

Most games (sans quake, ut, & nwn) need wine or cedega and will take a 10-30% preformance hit. So gaming and linux don't do will together. However linux has much more and being able to play a game real quick between work is really nice. Just don't get your hopes up.

Expect a little instablity for the 5-10% -O3 brings over -O2

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CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

I run -O2 you will never notice considering the hit you take from the API mapping of wine.