[TriLUG] hardware requirements for linux gaming computer

Jim Ray jim at neuse.net
Mon Jun 23 20:24:00 EDT 2003


cool.  i'd like to hear more about it.  if my epia runs at 650 MHz and i
get one of those 128 MB RAM video cards, i hope to avoid having to build
a totally separate gaming computer.

i am concerned, though, that the epia just doesn't have the guts because
low res bzflag was really slow.

On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 20:10, jason at cerient.net wrote:
> i'm putting together a P3-500 with a nvidia geforce2 card later
> tonight,
> i'll let you know how it performs.
> 
> jason
> 
> > if something like a PII or PIII is all the horsepower required to
> play
> > bzflag given a decent video card, then it would stand to good reason
> > that a bottleneck exists only in the video department and not in the
> > processor department.
> >
> > what is the optimum processor speed in order to make sure the
> processor
> > is not holding up progress?
> >
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