[bf1942] BF and wineX 3.1

[Lee Latham]

sure would be nice to have a native linux client...IMO game developers 
would be well advised in the next few years to design their games as 
platform independently as possible.  that is our philosophy at my software 
company, as the cost of re-engineering for a platform we did not envision 
in the future is much much higher than designing from the ground up with 
ease or porting in mind.

and i can tell you from experience--you can save a ton of time/money that 
way.  NOTHING is easy in the software business.  planning ahead makes it as 
easy as it is possible to be.

lee
At 10:13 AM 12/20/2003 +1100, you wrote:
>Because it is much easier to run it in linux than to reboot into windows
>to play a game.  Well IMHO :-)  And the performance on a decent games
>machine is more than decent under winex.  It works fine on my laptap.
>
>On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 06:26, Lee Latham wrote:
> > Respectfully...really...WHY do you want to do this?  I can see doing it on
> > a lark but you are _never_ going to get the same performance under an
> > emulator as you will under the native platform, and modern games are very
> > resource intensive (bf1942 being the most intensive one so far that was
> > worth a damn).
> >
> > But spending time trying to get it right...madness!
> >
> > At 03:04 PM 11/13/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> > >Hi all!
> > >I'm new to this mailing list, is it only discussing server-stuff, or also
> > >client probs?
> > >Anyway, i hope this fits in here:
> > >Has anyone BF running under wineX really good ?
> > >I got it working, but quite poor...
> > >The Sound is working, but not really nice, dunno how to explain, it just
> > >sounds shabby.
> > >Also if I select Options->Graphics in the BF Main-Screen i can only select
> > >640x480 or 800x600 both in 32 or 16 bit.
> > >Another thing which is not nice is that in the Game, whan I'm on the 
> ground
> > >there are several texturing-problems. The ground sometimes is black, 
> etc...
> > >When I`m in the Air and look down everything is nice.
> > >
> > >Does someone know if i have to install the NVidia-Graphics-driver for 
> windows
> > >in winex?
> > >
> > >Any suggestions from people who also (want to) play BF on a linux box?
> > >
> > >Thx in advance, Manni
> >
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Lee M. Latham
Vice Field Marshall Admiral Imperator Generalissimo of Sales and Support 
(muy importante)
+1 (713) 977-4177 x.103
lee at cgmlarson.com
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