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**TWPonKubuntu** · May 15, 2018, 07:39 AM

Originally posted by ednaemars View Post

I am, was, and will be a gamer. I’ve requested my friend at Epic Games to raise the idea of porting Fortnite to Linux, but for the time being, I’d like to NOT stare at my screen thinking why I got Linux.
Wine and PlayOnLinux accepted. Just remember that I have a low end laptop, could run most high end games(somewhat) on Windows 10 but a bit afraid that Wine and POL might eat all my FPS. (Also tell me if that really happens)

I use Wine/POL to run Mist, Riven and Dune (which is slow anyway). Much depends on how much ram you have. An older machine may be 32bit, and limited to 4Gb RAM. On my 32bit Dell Latitude, this is adequate. I simply don't load more than the one game at a time and avoid packing my RAM with other programs (apps for those who forgot what "programs" means) while I'm running Wine.

If you want high performance for gaming, do try to move to a 64bit architecture with more RAM. I've NOT ready to fork out the bucks/pounds/euro for the upgrade, so I live with those limitations.

[steps up on soapbox, raising voice level]
Would I ever consider using Windows again? Not just NO, but *#$% NO. For the price of Windows 10 I could, instead, buy a good 64bit system, install Linux and be happy...

[steps off soapbox]

**oshunluvr** · May 15, 2018, 08:34 AM

Steam works well and has a ton of games. Me personally, I play War Thunder and 0 A.D. (in the repos, but you can get the newest Beta version here)

I got Starcraft II working pretty well too.

**woodsmoke** · May 15, 2018, 12:41 PM

Basically, it is the hardware, not the software, that limits one with the new games.

And, to that end, a 64 bit system, with the latest and greatest CPU ( that is supported completely by your Linux flavour) and the latest and greatest graphics card that has "the most" support for all the bells and whistles that a game might require supported.)

So, it then comes down to "what do you want to play", and then searching the net for posts on "hey this graphics card does not support (this particular kind of rendering) in this game" " Or conversely it does so do).

I am not a gamer per se but I pay attention to it in terms of hardware requirements and fundamentally, if you ask here about whether a particular card is supported and the game requirements are UNDER that specfication, then the game should run fine on the metal itself and usually in a VB of whatever type.

So, the cut tot the chase is that THE USUAL STOCK ANSWER is:

a) that all the hardware should be "at least" "one step up" from what the game requires if it is a Windblows game.

But, the "stock answer" is quite often misleading, a really graphics intensive game that is tweaked for Windblows and certain graphics cards RENDERING CAPABILITIES will require those things to "show"... maybe "really cool tracer renderings of fired missles in a space combat game"

in other words even on a Windblow system a certain card "will run" the game, but you get a plain white tracer, but if one uses the particular card ( or card class) that is a stated requirement with enough graphics power then you will see "pulsing blue and white light" within the "white tracer".

So, to that end, STEAM "should run it all' if you have the hardware that is what the hardware "should be" not the "minimum" and, of course, as with any software, the more memory, the faster the memory, the faster and better and greater the video card, the better.

I spent a lot of time with a really hard core gamer back 12 years or so ago. He was all into "using whatever he could find" and not spend a lot of money. Usually it was stuff that was "throwaway' from computer stores in the hey day of the big sweeping change from "286 to 386 to P 1 P2 P 3 etc. before we leaped into the present paradigm.

And his methodology was build the system and then find the game.

Most of us are in the mode of "i have a system" and i want to play this latest game but it doesn't run well". In other words we are stuck with the system

As of the present state of things if on has a very new system it is just AWASH in power and "should" play anything unless the game has been PURPOSELY designed to require certain specs.

so, to that end, find games that "should" run on the system you have in terms of metal and...

It SHOULD run under Steam or whatever if it is a windblows game.

woodjustanopinionoflittleworth

**GreyGeek** · May 15, 2018, 01:11 PM

IMO, hardware is everything in game playing. My 6 year old Acer V3-771G has 6GB RAM an an i7 CPU withe a secondary NVidia GT 650M GPU. Without the NVidia GPU games aren't worth playing. Minecraft, for example, gives me 30-60 fps tops with the i915 Nouveau driver. WIth my 650M I get between 300-600 fps. Universe Sandbox^2 on the i915 gives stuttering results as the planets orbit the Sun. On the NVidia they orbit smooth as silk. In fact, its only when I bombard the Earth with 50 Moons and generate millions of particles do I begin to get a stutter. Every other simulation is as smooth as silk.

Steam games run at around 200-300 fps on my box. I have a 300Mbps symmetrical fiber optic Internet pipe, so online games run as fast as their server will allow. Unfortunately, most are shoot'm ups and I've seen too many dead bodies to get hyped up over being able to kill or be killed and resurrect immediately to kill again. IMO, it deadens people's sensitivity to violence. However, they are addictive and its something I'm trying to persuade my youngest grandson to not spend most of his free time doing. I'm trying to interest him in intellectually challenging games, like Chess, but they can't compete on the thrill level. He's got 5 years of HS ahead of him. If he wastes it playing games the only thing he'll be able to do after he graduates is work at jobs where he asks "Do you want fries with that?"

**woodsmoke** · May 15, 2018, 09:32 PM

Lol you...could... purchase a really old copy of...Battle Chess and run it under Wine! It does keep the cd tray humming though.

WOAH!! I was going to post a pic and went to google and found that there is a new version on STEAM!!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2...Game_of_Kings/

woodappreciateditbuthavingthecdintetrayisarecipefo rdestroyingthecdplayersmok

**claydoh** · May 15, 2018, 09:43 PM

Steam games:
Rise of the Tomb Raider, if you have a 'real" or "serious" graphics card
Metro 2033, both games. (probably need a decent gpu)

Half life 2 of course, if you have lesser hardware, for some old school mayhem

**benny_fletch** · May 16, 2018, 07:25 PM

Steam games (all run great!):
Empire: Total War
Medieval II: Total War
Total War: ATTILA
Total War: SHOGUN2
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2
(Coming Soon) Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia

Wine/PlayOnLinux:
Star Trek Online (although it ran horribly... only reason I have a windows installation

)

In the past with Wine/PlayOnLinux:
Roller Coaster Tycoon 2
Star Wars Knight of the Old Republic

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