[TriLUG] hardware requirements for linux gaming computer

Roy Vestal rvestal at trilug.org
Tue Jun 24 11:05:51 EDT 2003


My gaming PC is PIII-733MHz, 256MB RAM, NVidia GeForce 2MX/200 with 32MB
RAM, RHL 9 w/Nvidia's latest drivers. BZ, UT, Heretic 2, Quake 3 Arena,
RTCW ET all work great.

Another "test" I've found is if Chromium works. It is part of the games
with the RHL distro.

On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 21:14, Carlos J. Cela wrote:
> I have a P3 1GHz with a GEForce 2 and 1/2 GB RAM - BXFlag is very smooth 
> (even with all the goodies on) and Unreal Tournament is snappy also. The 
> trick for me was to properly configure the NVidia drivers and X...
> 
> Jim Ray wrote:
> 
> >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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