64Bit Socket754 AMD3000 laptop, the heavy monster I’ve taken to the LAN the last couple of times. Well after giving up on HP to release any drivers for win64, it now has FC5-64 on it and it flies.
Down to the real important stuff, got the Nvidia drivers installed and then fired up/installed UT2004, which of course then decides to install the 64bit version and it certainly feels quicker than Win32 !!! Bonus
My target for next lan if I can attend is a pure *nix rig for me, it’s not like I ever play any other game than UT2004 :lol:
I’m rather happy with it, of course there is the side thing that I am now coding for *nix systems and servers, so it had to be done anyway, but the performance of UT2004 is cracking
ut2004 is native to both win and *nix, the cd has an installer script - the bit most people complain about is that it is slow. That’s solved by installing the correct 3d drivers for your card that is not all that hard anyway.
yumex makes things easy for those on Fedora, yast on others, emerge on Gentoo, is only more games developers would realise code like UT
Didnt know UT ran under Linux.
Tried Quake-3 on an Apple and found it a bit lacking but if UT is playable I’ll give it a go.
I was looking at DC++ yesterday to see if it had Linux support.
Having a data volume striped across four SATA drives using LVM might be quite quick especially if the LVM extent size matches the drive cache.
