[cod] Cod client for linux?

[Vye Wilson]

I would say that PPC isn't a gaming platform either. But still games 
should be made for them all.. UT2k* works fine on my linux box.


Rickard Åberg wrote:

> Heh, well what bothers me is that developers rather do Macintosh ports 
> of their games rather than port them to linux. I mean, who uses a mac 
> for gaming?
> I guess then you could say "Linux isn't for gaming", well... I'm not 
> going to go into that discussion. Before it was "linux isn't a desktop 
> OS" and now look... Gnome is really great, so is KDE.
>
> / Rickard
>
> Matthew E. Evans | Computer Networks wrote:
>
>> Ok, and the main thing is. . . in my second responce to this thread I 
>> said "I didn't really notice a performance drop in either windows nor 
>> linux" I said it was more stable "for me" ;-)
>>
>> I understand how wine and winex emulate windows and I do understand 
>> that a native port to a specific OS is most definatly going to be 
>> faster one way or another for the simple fact that it is native and 
>> not emulated. . . I am NOT saying running call of duty in linux is 
>> FASTER and performs better, I'm sorry if that's how my first post 
>> sounded, I meant stable. . . Next time I'm just going to sit back and 
>> enjoy the show ;-) Because obvoiusly I'm a retarded dipshit.
>> On Tue, 18 May 2004 14:08:24 -0700
>> Boco <karinosso at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Well, the main thing is that Wine basically emulates the Windows 
>>> environment, so what might be one call to an API function in Windows 
>>> might be three calls in Wine.  Plus Wine has problems with it and 
>>> isn't always very stable.  Some programs only work in specific 
>>> versions of Wine...  I would also question you getting better 
>>> performance in Linux then in Windows.  You must have screwed up your 
>>> Windows install somehow...
>>>
>>> Matthew E. Evans | Computer Networks wrote:Also another question for 
>>> you, why must I be doing something wrong in windows if I get better 
>>> performance in linux? Just because your experience in linux was 
>>> worse doesn't mean everyone else's machines are going to run the 
>>> game worse in linux just like yours ;-)
>>>
>>> Their could be serveral things that cause a performance decrease 
>>> while running cod in linux on your machine, not saying their is, but 
>>> it's possible, don't assume that everyone else's machine is going to 
>>> run it like yours.
>>>
>>> End statment, it runs fine with no problems weather I run it in 
>>> windows or linux (on at least my machine), and I've played it a fair 
>>> ammount of times to judge that, (again on my machine). I just prefer 
>>> to use linux alot more than I use windows, wayyy to insecure, and 
>>> buggy. . .
>>>
>>> On Tue, 18 May 2004 16:51:22 -0400
>>> "Matthew E. Evans | Computer Networks" <MEvans at cpunetworks.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Well, performance feels about the same in both windows and linux, 
>>> but I noticed when I run it in linux it feels more stable as with 
>>> anything not running nativly on windows. . .  So it's probably not a 
>>> performance increase but more of a stability increase. . .
>>> Yeah I don't notice a performance drop in either windows nor linux 
>>> running w/e res I want, no I set my fps higher than my card can 
>>> support so I can see what my max fps is while playing. . .
>>> I don't really play fps's anymore, way too many of them, got too 
>>> lame for me, doing the samething over and over gets repetitive and old.
>>>
>>> But enough of this pissing contest, I just figured I would throw in 
>>> my two sence. . .
>>>
>>> On Tue, 18 May 2004 22:41:17 +0200
>>> Rickard &Aring;berg <rickard at refused.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>    If you get better performance in linux than windows, you're doing 
>>> something wrong. Maybe your refresh rate locks the fps to 60hz or 
>>> something.
>>> I have to run cod in 800x600 with linux to get anything near the 
>>> performance i have in windows, I also have to lower the texture 
>>> detail etc.
>>>
>>> / Rickard
>>>
>>> Matthew E. Evans | Computer Networks wrote:
>>>      I just copied my windows installation of cod, ran the game 
>>> using winex, sounds work, game works, works just as it does in 
>>> windows. . . better performance then windows acually, and a heck of 
>>> a lot more stable ;-)
>>>
>>> On Tue, 18 May 2004 20:54:31 +0200
>>> Rickard &Aring;berg <rickard at refused.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>        It doesn't work too well in winex... it tends to crash etc. 
>>> And the performance isn't that great, it's ok but not great.
>>> After all, wine(x) emulates windows, it's a neat thing... but well, 
>>> a native linux port is prefered imho.
>>>
>>> / Rickard
>>>
>>> fuzz wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>          Question for y'all.
>>>
>>> 1.  I have been trying to get wine to install CoD but I keep getting an
>>> error on the install when it starts to try and copy the files.  The 
>>> path
>>> that it is trying to copy files from is wrong.  It seems that it has
>>> added an extra directory to the path i.e. 
>>> f:\docs\DOCS\filename.file    Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?
>>> wine ver = 20030813
>>>
>>> 2.  A client port to linux shouldn't be that difficult should it since
>>> MOHAA is ported to linux.  They are basically the same engine, aren't
>>> they?
>>>
>>> fuzz
>>>
>>>                     
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