Hardcore gamers face a few more challenges with Linux. Here are
some of the opportunities and challenges as you approach Linux gaming:
Plenty to play??”If you just like to be diverted by playing some
solitaire or shooting some asteroids, start with the Games menu on
your desktop. Both GNOME and KDE desktops come with many
more games than you will get on default desktop Windows systems.
I provide a list of popular desktop games later in this chapter. If
your Linux system doesn??™t have them, you can certainly get them.
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3D acceleration??”If you are a more serious gamer, you will almost certainly want a
video card that provides hardware acceleration. Open source drivers for some video cards
are available from the DRI project. Video cards from NVIDIA and ATI often have binaryonly
drivers available. Fun open source games such as PenguinPlanet Racer, BZFlag, and
others that recommend hardware acceleration, will run much better if you get one of
these supported cards and drivers.
Commercial games??”The latest commercial computer games are not all ported to
run in Linux. Boxed commercial games for Linux include Unreal Tournament 2003 and
2004, as well as about 50 first-rate commercial games that have been ported to run in
Linux.
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