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13 AristotlePagaltzis 1 !!! Commercial games
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10 AlastairPorter 3 Thanks almost single handedly to JohnCarmack and his support of [OpenGL], a number of commercial games come out natively for Unix.
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5 * Anything ID makes (including Quake 1/2/3, Doom 1/2)
6 * Unreal Tournament and Unreal Tournament 2003
13 AristotlePagaltzis 7 * ~NeverWinter Nights
10 AlastairPorter 8
13 AristotlePagaltzis 9 There was a company called Loki that ported many games to Linux. Unfortunately they've gone out of business, so you can't buy their games from them any more. They were responsible for the UT port, as well as [Civilization]: Call to Power, Myth II: Soulblighter, Railroad Tycoon II, Eric's Ultimate Solitaire, Heretic II, Heroes III, Heavy Gear II, ~SimCity 3000, Soldier of Fortune, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Descent3, ~MindRover, Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns, Tribes 2, Rune, Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.2 and Postal Plus.
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14 IanMcDonald 11 There's also a company called [TransGaming|http://www.transgaming.com] who are working on a version of [Wine] called Cedega, especially for gaming, which runs a whole heap of cool new games:
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13 * Warcraft III
14 * Grand Theft Auto 3
11 WikiAdmin 15 * [Civilization] III (Season for 3's, isn't it?)
10 AlastairPorter 16 * Black and White
17 * The Sims
18 * Everquest
19 * Jedi Knight II and other Quake 3 engine games
20 * Half-life/Counter-strike (I got this to run, but it stops being 3D accelerated beyond 800x600 for some reason --GianPerrone)
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14 IanMcDonald 22 You can download the source code for Cedega under the [AFPL], but to download binaries from them you have to subscribe. Subscribing gives you the benefit of supporting them and a say in what games they work on supporting next, so it's highly recommended.
10 AlastairPorter 23
24 Servers for any commercial game worth their salt come out for Linux.
13 AristotlePagaltzis 25
26 !!! [Free] and [free] games
10 AlastairPorter 27
28 There are a number of cool [GPL]/free games for Linux:
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30 * [TuxRacer|http://www.tuxracer.com/] (which has a non-GPL windows versions as well)
31 * BzFlag - a multi-player tank game
11 WikiAdmin 32 * FreeCiv (originally a clone of [Civilization])
15 IanMcDonald 33 * XBill! (This is a good game if you want to get [OOS])
10 AlastairPorter 34 * [VegaStrike|http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net] - a space craft fighter/trading game a. la. Elite, Frontier, etc. Still in heavy development but playable.
35 * FrozenBubble
36 * TetriNet
12 CameronHart 37 * [Neverball|http://aoeu.snth.net/neverball/] - tilt the floor to roll the ball through the obstacle course before time runs out.
16 LawrenceDoliveiro 38 * [Tremulous]
10 AlastairPorter 39
13 AristotlePagaltzis 40 !!! Game programming
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42 Have a look at [SDL].
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44 !!! Alternatively
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46 Go out and buy a console. Computers are for business. :)
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48 !!! Networking optimizations
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50 Do you have a user who is complaining about high pings when you're browsing the [Web] or downloading on the same connection?
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52 ifconfig(8) offers the following advice:
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54 txqueuelen length:
55 Set the length of the transmit queue of the device. It is useful to set this to small values for slower devices with a high latency (modem links, ISDN) to prevent fast bulk transfers from disturbing interactive traffic like telnet too much.
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13 AristotlePagaltzis 57 So <tt>ifconfig eth0 txqueuelen 0</tt> will make your interactive traffic (read: [Quake], [Doom3]) much more bearable for your pet gamer.
16 LawrenceDoliveiro 58
59 !!! See Also
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61 LinuxAndGames (should probably merge this page and that one)