Linux gaming may overtake Windows gaming soon

[Lee_Stricklin]

The auto install crap aint worth a damn half the time, but that's not why I use it. I use it because it's a freaking awesome utility for managing multiple versions of WINE. For anybody using PlayOnLinux I HIGHLY recommend making a shortcut to your .playonlinux directory. It should be a hidden file in your home folder. Any time you want to install something just bring up the WINE app DB, install the version of WINE that looks best (using playonlinux), and then making a copy of it specifically for your game. Doing that will make it A LOT easier to tweak and manage your games. Oh, I almost forgot to add that THE BEST WAY TO PLAY UT99 RIGHT NOW is to use WINE and ACE is compatible with it as well.

So PlayOnLinux downloads custom versions of Wine ? Are there advantages to playing UT on Linux, apart from not needing windows of course ? ... and what is ACE ?

It runs better and ACE is the anticheat that was created to phase out UTDC. It was mostly made so that Windows 7 users would be able to play online, but was also made compatible with WINE as well. You do have to tweak the settings a little, but nothing difficult and using driver emulation on sound, you can actually get better sound quality than most users get on Windows. The version of WINE that I use to run the game is 1.1.35. See attachments for my settings.

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[TheDane]

IMO by saying M$ has a monopoly is wrong, everybody are free to invent their own OS. If I where to invent a good OS then I would also do what I could to keep the money go my way.

[Lee_Stricklin]

IMO by saying M$ has a monopoly is wrong, everybody are free to invent their own OS. If I where to invent a good OS then I would also do what I could to keep the money go my way.

Your right. Everybody is free to make their own operating system and the fact that I'm running Linux Mint 64 bit right now proves that. The reason that everybody says MS has a monopoly though is because of their shady history of anti-competitive practices one of their most infamous ones were them trying to get patents for stuff that was already invented by the open source communities and even used by MS themselves. They were also declared a monopoly in US courts as well and they still continue to spread a bunch of untrue information about Linux another example being their Best Buy "education program". If they put an end to the shady/illegal crap, people would probably view them better.

[Phorce]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft#Criticism

EU hits Microsoft with record 899 million euro anti-trust fine
AFP
Published: Wednesday February 27, 2008

EU competition regulators dealt a new blow to Microsoft on Wednesday, fining the US software giant a record 899 million euros for defying a landmark 2004 anti-trust ruling.

The fine, equal to 1.4 billion dollars, is the biggest ever levelled against a single company in an EU antitrust case and brings the total penalties against Microsoft to just below 1.7 billion euros.

"Microsoft was the first company in 50 years of EU competition policy that the commission has had to fine for failure to comply with an anti-trust decision," EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said.

"I hope that today's decision closes a dark chapter in Microsoft's record of non-compliance with the commission's March 2004 decision," she added.

The European Commission, Europe's top competition watchdog, fined Microsoft 497 million euros in March 2004 and ordered the company to open some key software to rivals so they could make compatible products.

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/EU_hits_Mi ... 72008.html

Microsoft has an extremely cosy relationship with game companies, memory manufacturers and the likes of NVidia. Why did MS DX10, the hardware manufacturers and the makers of Crysis collaborate to produce a game with excessive hardware requirements based on a few DX shaders and clever advertising ? Greed . They have spoilt the gaming phenomenon making the aim the lowest common denominator profit motive that is throwing out innovation and story telling in favour of a MP alone driven by pay for DLC and endless other lucrative retail tactics . Look at Battlefield 2142 with it's IGA or the way the video game industry is starting to look like some kind of corrupt version of Hollywood accounting. What happened to honest folk crafting their handbuilt games in the garage ( yeah I know ) ?