[TriLUG] hardware requirements for linux gaming computer

[Carlos J. Cela]

You are right - Chromium is a very good benchmark for a gaming Linux PC. 
Just trying it you can immediately tell if your OpenGL acceleration is 
properly setup or not... I think the trick for a Linux gaming PC is to 
have a decent OpenGL accelerated video card and enough RAM..


Roy Vestal wrote:

>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:
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>>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:
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>>>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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