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Comparing ETQW Windows vs. Linux (Note: Linux Loads Faster)
That's right, a comparison of Windows and Linux.. I got ETQW working on Linux. First Windows.. Note: My sound card wouldn't allow me to use the mic in Linux, whereas in Windows there was full support for the mic, of course. Creative Labs doesn't support the X-fi in the 32-bit version of linux, you need the core2duo (64-bit processor) to use the X-fi sound driver. I've read through the X-fi linux developers page, and they say they haven't been able to make drivers for the 32-bit version of the X-fi because Creative Labs has not released the specs (nor will ever, as it sounds). Creative Labs, you are soon going to lose me as a customer. BTW, the X-fi doesn't seem all that much better than the old "Soundblaster Live!" you can pick up anywhere for 30 bucks.. Probably has better 3D sound, but I can't tell the difference. I'll probably pawn the X-fi and go back to the Live, probably has better linux support. Note, the Live! was the only card I think, that used EMU chips (go see Ferris Buehler's day off, the sampler keyboard in his room is an EMU sampler), it had a 4 effects pass-thru (reverb, pitch-change, etc), it was impossible for me to get this to work correctly on my X-fi Gamer card. I don't believe they know what they are doing. I think Creative Labs focusing more these days on sound quality on the high end (only young ears would know the difference) and 7.1 support and such. But the X-fi is provided with less software support than the Live! had, and the interface is impossible to use for advanced sound processing. Like on the Live! I could adjust the nature of the reverb to make make clay and metalic room reverbs.. Or run a chorus into a reverb, or vice versa.. How that heck do you do that with an X-fi? Their UI designer and engineers are not talking.. Anyhow, there is some people who suggest on Linux to use USB mics, which what I will probably do. I was using the motherboard's sound support in linux, not bad, seemed to support 4.1 sound ( 4 speakers, sub-woofer ). ETQW is said to support "alsa" in linux. There are two audio standards, Alsa and OSS in linux, and alsa is the more popular one and the one that tends to work. Linux does load faster than Windows, and the game seems a lot less uncumbered with lag on linux vs. windows.. For the ogg of the linux demo, go here: http://tinyurl.com/2jhvex I'll put up the Windows one if people ask for it.. To tell you the truth I really can't tell the difference from the video here, but the response and frame rate seemed faster on linux.. PS- I did notice, and was bothering me in the Linux version og quake wars, probably a problem with the NVidia graphics card I'm using, but when viewing geometry from far off as a sniper, I was seeing polygon splintering effects, that's usually from a low (z bit count per pixel) z-buffer setting.. Z-buffer is the part of a graphics system that handles the distance from the observer to the pixel (on a polygon). If there is an ambiguity between two polygons (no difference in distance between pixels) you get this what I call "splintering wood" or flickering distortion of surfaces.. It's probably a feature of the graphics card that I need to set.. It probably has a parameter for adjusting the Z-buffer.
Channel: Sports
Author: rofthorax
Length: 09:25
Rating: 4.33
Views: 8649
Tags: 2.5 512 7.10 8600 Client Enemy Fast fps Game GB GT Linux Load MB Native NVidia Quake Territory Ubuntu Video Wars
Video Comments
lorenzo1234567891011 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)this game is very strange i have it and it runs on my 8600gt on max settings but the fps gets lockd @ 30fps doesnt drop or increases. does anyone know how i can get to go like 60fps? with a console command like Maxfps 60 orsomething? thnx -lorenzo
rofthorax (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Actually at 1280x1024 it's hard to tell.. Ask a HDTV fanatic to take the "taste test" between HDTV's of 720i, 720p, 1080i, 1080p. And I doubt from 6 feet back they'd be able to tell. Now take a monitor of the same resolution at half the size, and sit 3 feet from it.. Can you tell that the AA is off? Quality is sometimes just information.. Nobody in their right mind would say "damn, I'm not going to play this game, there is no AA on this black line against the sky". It's the game stupid.
rofthorax (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Nope.. Look for "VanGoghsKnife".. That's my in-game persona, it carries on over from my profile on 2142 that I still have and play on the XP side of this machine. Linux is not very good for multiplayer games as the vendors can't seem to decide on a good audio standard.. But I did this mostly to reveal that the only reason Linux doesn't have games is that the games are not ported to the platform. Anyhow, for the record, I have almost all the unlocks on 2142 (I'm a silver field marshal).
rofthorax (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Yeah I really don't know why they did that.. I think NVidia is to blame there.. Shitty NVidia drivers..
plzhelpma190 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
lol aa disabled and prolly a shit res
epiktheory (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
lord darius 420 ... is that you
AnXare (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I am Gnu/Linux gamer and just for playing games on linux I don't recommend anyone to switch. First of all, commercial games that are available will drop dramaticly. There will be Quake, Unreal Tournament, Doom, Nerverwinter Nights,... etc. but most of the games like Call of Duty, CounterStrike those are not available. That doesn't mean thought that you cannot play them on Linux. They will not just work just as well because they are Windows versions run on top of Gnu/Linux. Ask more info... :)
rofthorax (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
You can try it out. I use Linux because I agree with the philosophy of Open Source operating environments. If you consider the motivation of capital driven software development and open software development, the intent to make money works against making good software, the software is always a little bit crippled to encourage people to buy the next software release. There is no reason for this to happen in Open Source. So what you get is the best there is.
Roundy1993 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Hey, I have nearly the EXACT same system as you, except for the sound card. I'm running Windows Vista 32bit, do you reccomend I use Linux for gaming?
rofthorax (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I did the same thing with Battlefield 2142 about a year earlier.. You'd think I'd learn.. Others might sell theirs off.. I might do that next time, but I sorta had to burn bridges..