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| Comparing ETQW Windows vs. Linux (Note: Linux Loads Faster) |
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That's right, a comparison of Windows
and Linux.. I got ETQW working on Linux.
First Windows..
Note:
My sound card wouldn't allow me to use the mic in
Linux, whereas in Windows there was full support
for the mic, of course. Creative Labs doesn't
support the X-fi in the 32-bit version of linux,
you need the core2duo (64-bit processor) to use
the X-fi sound driver. I've read through the X-fi
linux developers page, and they say they haven't
been able to make drivers for the 32-bit version
of the X-fi because Creative Labs has not released
the specs (nor will ever, as it sounds). Creative
Labs, you are soon going to lose me as a customer.
BTW, the X-fi doesn't seem all that much better
than the old "Soundblaster Live!" you can pick up
anywhere for 30 bucks.. Probably has better 3D
sound, but I can't tell the difference. I'll
probably pawn the X-fi and go back to the Live,
probably has better linux support. Note, the Live!
was the only card I think, that used EMU chips (go
see Ferris Buehler's day off, the sampler keyboard
in his room is an EMU sampler), it had a 4 effects
pass-thru (reverb, pitch-change, etc), it was
impossible for me to get this to work correctly on
my X-fi Gamer card. I don't believe they know what
they are doing. I think Creative Labs focusing
more these days on sound quality on the high end
(only young ears would know the difference) and
7.1 support and such. But the X-fi is provided
with less software support than the Live! had, and
the interface is impossible to use for advanced
sound processing. Like on the Live! I could
adjust the nature of the reverb to make make clay
and metalic room reverbs.. Or run a chorus into a
reverb, or vice versa.. How that heck do you do
that with an X-fi? Their UI designer and engineers
are not talking..
Anyhow, there is some people who suggest on Linux
to use USB mics, which what I will probably do. I
was using the motherboard's sound support in
linux, not bad, seemed to support 4.1 sound ( 4
speakers, sub-woofer ). ETQW is said to support
"alsa" in linux. There are two audio standards,
Alsa and OSS in linux, and alsa is the more
popular one and the one that tends to work.
Linux does load faster than Windows, and the game
seems a lot less uncumbered with lag on linux vs.
windows..
For the ogg of the linux demo, go here:
http://tinyurl.com/2jhvex
I'll put up the Windows one if people ask for it..
To tell you the truth I really can't tell the
difference from the video here, but the response
and frame rate seemed faster on linux..
PS- I did notice, and was bothering me in the
Linux version og quake wars, probably a problem
with the NVidia graphics card I'm using, but when
viewing geometry from far off as a sniper, I was
seeing polygon splintering effects, that's usually
from a low (z bit count per pixel) z-buffer
setting.. Z-buffer is the part of a graphics
system that handles the distance from the observer
to the pixel (on a polygon). If there is an
ambiguity between two polygons (no difference in
distance between pixels) you get this what I call
"splintering wood" or flickering distortion of
surfaces.. It's probably a feature of the
graphics card that I need to set.. It probably has
a parameter for adjusting the Z-buffer.
Tags : Quake Wars Enemy Territory Ubuntu Linux 7.10 Native Client NVidia 8600 GT 512 MB 2.5 GB Video Game fps Load Fast |
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Durée : 565 s |
| . \ ' UBUNTU LINUX ' / .: Quake Wars ETQW *NATIVE* (Part 1) |
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Yes it is the Native Client available from ID
software for Linux that I'm running... Yes I have
2.8 Ghz Pentium D and a NVidia 8600 GT. Yes it
loads into Ubuntu in like 2 minutes, and to play
ETQW takes about a minute or so. And yes the mic
and audio works, sounds just as good as in
Windows. And seems to be a lot faster than
Windows.. And no I'm not using DirectX 10 or any
DirectX.. I think it's all atop Opengl 2.0 or
something.. Whatever it is, I can't tell the
difference between Windows and Ubuntu...
No Ubuntu doesn't run a whole lot of games, but
this is a complex enough game to raise the
argument, what is the big deal about Windows
anyhow? And then you look at Beryl/Compiz which is
fully integrated into Ubuntu 7.10 now, it makes
you wonder what is so special about Vista..
I believe the answer is:
300 dollar price tag and better driver support,
outside of that, I really can't imagine what
Windows Vista has.. As I see it if more games ran
on Ubuntu, people would be using Ubuntu for games
and Windows for ummm, errr, porn? Yeah that's it
porn..
Tags : Vista is really for porn Linux runs games just as well Loads faster ETQW no perceived difference |
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Durée : 567 s |
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