Linux

[OZkansas]

Yesterday I bought Mandrake 8.2.  Have is loaded on its own drive.  This is going to be a new experience, but Mandrake seems to be pretty easy to understand.  Will need to do alot of reading to get up to speed.

Anyone else out there tired of Microsoft to the point of trying another OS?  To bad MS hasn't stuck with one OS and refined it.  They just keep creating new ones and dropping the old ones:(

Guess there is more money in creating new OS's that don't work.

I hope I can get AH, Saitek X45, GeForce cards, and anything else I want to use in AH to function in Linux.

[Reschke]

I would like to find out the same thing OZ. I read a while back a thread here about someone working with Linux to try AH but I have not seen an update on it recently.

[bloom25]

Most Linux distributions include generic GeForce drivers for the different cards, but http://www.nvidia.com (nVidia's site) does have some accelerated Linux drivers available.  You need to get the one for your particular distribution.  Typically there are 2 parts, the openGL (libraries) driver and graphics card driver.  Make sure you get the readme and follow the instructions.  You usually need to modify the XFree86-4 Configuration file to tell the system to use the newer driver.

As for Aces High, supposedly it does work (at least it did in the 1.08 days) by using WineX.  (Transgaming makes WineX.)Unfortunately since AH is a directX game (which is a Microsoft product), there is no DirectX for Linux.  WineX is a directX emulator that uses OpenGL, meaning there is probably going to be a potentially significant performance hit.  On a fast computer it should probably be fast enough though...

[llyr68]

http://www.inimage.com/AH/AH_on_Linux.html (current as of Ver 1.10) has some good info on running AH on a Linux box.

I haven't checked it out as my distro is giving me static about recognizing my USB controllers-CH jstick/pedals/rudders-and I haven't had the time to fiddle with it lately.

HTH

llyr

[Yippee38]

I run SuSE Linux and it updates the vid drivers from NVIDIA's site automagically.  Mandrake might also do that.  Check it out.

Sure would be nice if AH moved away from being DX only.  I'd love to see it in OpenGL.

Personally, I refuse to load Wine or WineX on my system.  Doing that is like telling game companies that they don't need to support linux.  They just need to make a Windows version and people will use an emulator.  Instead, I buy every Linux game I can.  If a game comes out with both a Linux and Win version in the same box (UT 2k3 for example), I buy it from tuxgames.

I'm not one of those people who thinks Linux is perfect.  I do think that there needs to be competition for MS's stranglehold on gaming.

[Animal]

Originally posted by Yippee38
I run SuSE Linux and it updates the vid drivers from NVIDIA's site automagically.  Mandrake might also do that.  Check it out.

Sure would be nice if AH moved away from being DX only.  I'd love to see it in OpenGL.

Personally, I refuse to load Wine or WineX on my system.  Doing that is like telling game companies that they don't need to support linux.  They just need to make a Windows version and people will use an emulator.  Instead, I buy every Linux game I can.  If a game comes out with both a Linux and Win version in the same box (UT 2k3 for example), I buy it from tuxgames.

I'm not one of those people who thinks Linux is perfect.  I do think that there needs to be competition for MS's stranglehold on gaming.

Agreed.
Except for SuSE. Debian all the way!!!