Topic: Linux gaming (Read 11658 times)

Calaveth · « **on:** 20 Feb 2008, 06:44 »

Linux people, what games have you found that works well in Wine, or that has even been ported to Linux?

I've found that WoW works pretty well in Wine, but that's an itch I've already scratched to death, so to speak. I'd like something different. Eve Online same thing. What else is there?

clockworkjames · « **Reply #1 on:** 20 Feb 2008, 08:33 »

Stuff that uses the unreal engine is pretty much all I tried because I didn't have to faff about with anything.

I'm lazy

öde · « **Reply #2 on:** 20 Feb 2008, 08:59 »

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (native, I guess it's kinda similar to counter-strike but matches last 30 minutes to an hour and you respawn [and you can have fun in it]).
Warsow (native, quake style fps).
Planeshift (native, MMORPG).

That's all I can think of, but I'm not an avid gamer.

Ozymandias · « **Reply #3 on:** 20 Feb 2008, 09:09 »

Enemy Territory is a fantastic game. The best example of a successful open source video game.

öde · « **Reply #4 on:** 20 Feb 2008, 09:16 »

Play on the Bunker servers! They're awesomest.

Calaveth · « **Reply #5 on:** 20 Feb 2008, 13:54 »

Cool, I'll check those out.

öde · « **Reply #6 on:** 20 Feb 2008, 16:56 »

If you're in the U.S., click join server and type 'bunker1.aaxxss.com' or if you're in Europe join 'bunker2.aaxxss.com'.

muteKi · « **Reply #7 on:** 20 Feb 2008, 17:47 »

What about Supertux for Linux? I think it's a pretty damn cool Mario (3) clone.

clockworkjames · « **Reply #8 on:** 21 Feb 2008, 00:38 »

Yeah and the frozen bubble one, most awesome.

MamiyaOtaru · « **Reply #9 on:** 21 Feb 2008, 00:41 »

My KMenu currently has entries for Starcraft, Warcraft 3, Command and Conquer 3, Deus Ex, Doom3, Quake 3, Quake 4, Unreal Tournament, UT2004, Far Cry, and Jedi Academy. Those are all games with native clients or that I can vouch for as fluid in Wine. Of course there's plenty of smaller stuff as well, like Frets on Fire, Abuse, Wormux, and so forth. And I would also heartily recommend the Privateer Remake though I'm biased on that point.

JJXB · « **Reply #10 on:** 21 Feb 2008, 08:04 »

try some old dos games through dosbox. i know that worked well on my brief stint in linux

Teh Geek Lord · « **Reply #11 on:** 21 Feb 2008, 10:41 »

Tell me when they port Company of Heroes or another A-list game over...

clockworkjames · « **Reply #12 on:** 21 Feb 2008, 15:35 »

Why play CoH when you can play WC3/TFT/DoTA maaan.

Also travian

* clockworkjames runs away

Teh Geek Lord · « **Reply #13 on:** 21 Feb 2008, 16:29 »

Quote from: clockworkjames on 21 Feb 2008, 15:35

Why play CoH when you can play WC3/TFT/DoTA maaan.

Also travian
* clockworkjames runs away

sorry, but I'm an RTS guy...though I do like TFT

IronOxide · « **Reply #14 on:** 22 Feb 2008, 00:03 »

ScummVM is a great emulator that works beautifully with most every worthwhile point 'n click adventure (and by that, I mean Monkey Island 1-3, Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle, and Sam & Max), so if you can *cough*get a hold of*cough* any of these titles, they work great on your Linux system.

Finally, I have from time to time been distracted by Battle for Wesnoth. It's not a bad turn based strategy with a pretty fun campaign mode with several extra campaigns available for download.

Seosamh macseafra · « **Reply #15 on:** 22 Feb 2008, 13:08 »

i like openarena, it runs natively on linux and works on my 3-4 year old computer.

clockworkjames · « **Reply #16 on:** 23 Feb 2008, 14:41 »

OPENARENA! THANKYOU!

I played this on one of the college pc's ages ago and it was a tiny but too big to fit on my tiny usb stick.

Forgot what it was called, thankyou

Was like warsow but less bouncy.

öde · « **Reply #17 on:** 24 Feb 2008, 05:10 »

Quote from: IronOxide on 22 Feb 2008, 00:03

ScummVM is a great emulator

I should probably install this again so I don't have to get out my Compaq Presario with Windows 3.1 to play them.

Teh Geek Lord · « **Reply #18 on:** 24 Feb 2008, 20:42 »

Quote from: öde on 24 Feb 2008, 05:10

Quote from: IronOxide on 22 Feb 2008, 00:03
ScummVM is a great emulator

I should probably install this again so I don't have to get out my Compaq Presario with Windows 3.1 to play them.

Windows 3.1 word

SuperQ · « **Reply #19 on:** 23 Mar 2008, 21:38 »

I've been playing lots of Team Fortress 2, Portal, and Half Life 2.* under wine. They've been working fine on Ubuntu (7.10) with all the wine versions since I started testing around 0.92.

The one thing I have to remember is to turn off powernowd (sudo /etc/init.d/powernowd stop) before playing on my AMD box. For some reason the wine run binaries never triger the CPU going into full speed mode, and playing TF2 at 1ghz gives me about 3fps.

notselfcreated · « **Reply #20 on:** 24 Mar 2008, 23:17 »

Supposedly WoW works fine under Wine.

My only Linux gaming right now is Final Fantasy Tactics under PCSX. Pretty soon I've got an old school PSX and DexDrive coming in, so I will proceed to dump my own legal BIOS for ePSXe.

Ocarina654 · « **Reply #21 on:** 25 Mar 2008, 06:00 »

I would suggest the Cube Engine Games.
All original engine, with in-game map editing.

Also, I second Battle For Wesnoth.

If you own a copy of Neverwinter Nights you can, with a little help, run it under Linux. Not quite native, more like naturalized.

hook · « **Reply #22 on:** 27 Mar 2008, 06:48 »

A few useful linux gaming links:

http://www.happypenguin.org
http://freegamer.blogspot.com

Speaking of FPS, I think you might want to give Nexuiz, Alien Arena, Tremulous and World of Padman.

Edible · « **Reply #23 on:** 23 Apr 2008, 07:41 »

Spring people... spring...

öde · « **Reply #24 on:** 23 Apr 2008, 10:11 »

Spring started one month and one day ago in the northern hemisphere. You're a shit alarm clock.

Edible · « **Reply #25 on:** 23 Apr 2008, 21:59 »

This spring -> http://spring.clan-sy.com/
And I am in the southern hemisphere anyway.

Melodic · « **Reply #26 on:** 23 Apr 2008, 22:07 »

Spring isn't Linux-only. And it is awesome.

Edible · « **Reply #27 on:** 24 Apr 2008, 06:01 »

This has too be linux only?

Melodic · « **Reply #28 on:** 24 Apr 2008, 16:33 »

No, just making sure the Windows junkies out there know they can run it natively. And well, too. That game is a blast.

Calaveth · « **Reply #29 on:** 27 Apr 2008, 17:16 »

Quote from: notselfcreated on 24 Mar 2008, 23:17

Supposedly WoW works fine under Wine.

I would argue it runs better in Linux. Same computer, different OS, better framerate.

I've been less successful with support programs however, like UI Central.

Eternal_Newbie · « **Reply #30 on:** 30 Apr 2008, 08:22 »

Doom 3 and just about all versions of Quake run natively. Eve-Online runs well under Cedega and better under Wine. You can even download a client for Linux or Mac which is basically the classic client+Cedega. Neverwinter Nights 1, and all its expansions and 3rd party extensions runs natively in Linux.

Silverfire56 · « **Reply #31 on:** 11 May 2008, 23:32 »

wow works well under wine but has a large drop in FPS even addons work
this box used to be a Gentoo Linux box but as gaming at the moment is a bit slow im w8ing a while for wine to get a bit better or faster. Americas Army has a Linux client

öde · « **Reply #32 on:** 12 May 2008, 10:28 »

Didn't they stop support for AA on Linux quite a while ago?

Mars · « **Reply #33 on:** 19 May 2008, 04:17 »

Nobody has mentioned The Ur-Quan Masters yet. It's the open source port of Star Control 2 and is available on Windows, Mac and multiple *nix platforms (including multiple flavours of Linux in package form).

I'm at a loss to describe to it, so I'll just link to the Star Control 2 wikipedia page.
Link.

Spluff · « **Reply #34 on:** 19 May 2008, 04:40 »

Quote from: öde on 12 May 2008, 10:28

Didn't they stop support for AA on Linux quite a while ago?

Yeah. 2.5, I think.

IronOxide · « **Reply #35 on:** 20 May 2008, 07:40 »

Quote from: Calaveth on 27 Apr 2008, 17:16

Quote from: notselfcreated on 24 Mar 2008, 23:17
Supposedly WoW works fine under Wine.

I would argue it runs better in Linux. Same computer, different OS, better framerate.

I've been less successful with support programs however, like UI Central.

Really? I heard rumors (read: probably not true) that some guy got bannhammer'd because WINE registered as a botting program.

DavidGrohl · « **Reply #36 on:** 20 May 2008, 15:58 »

I play Counterstrike, DoD, (insert most steam games here), Warcraft III (DOTA and Use Map Settings maps), Civilization III Gold, and eve-online under wine. I play natively Battle for Wesnoth (my personal favorite), Glest, FreeCiv (a redone version of Civilization II for Linux), and Globulation is fun for a bit, too.

Forgot to add: If you haven't checked out Open Arena, it's basically a better version of Quake 3.

Radagast · « **Reply #37 on:** 09 Jun 2008, 01:56 »

Check http://appdb.winehq.org/ for the wineability several Windows games.

cubeengine.com and sauerbraten.org feature two FPS games based on the Cube 1 and Cube 2 engine.

Battle for Wesnoth has probably already been mentioned, but in the way of turn-based strategy games on a hexgrid, Advanced Strategic Command features a more contemporary/futuristic themed one.

It's very nice to browse the Games & Entertainment section of freshmeat when looking for implementations of a specific game or open source games in general; most are registered on freshmeat, complete with genre.

Skuzzzy · « **Reply #38 on:** 12 Jun 2008, 11:18 »

Theres always regnum; http://www.regnumonline.com.ar/

Free MMO with decent graphics and minimal requirements.

Runs natively, but isn't heavily supported on linux.

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Author Topic: Linux gaming (Read 11658 times)

muteKi

Seosamh macseafra

SuperQ

hook

Edible

Edible

Edible

Silverfire56

Radagast

Skuzzzy