Linked by Steve Husted on Mon 13th Sep 2004 08:28 UTC
Linux gaming. Let's face it - it's terrible. Tux Racer? Please. Quake III, okay, I'll give you that. NeverWinter Nights? If you can get it to work. WINE? If you have enough hair left to pull out, WINE is a good choice.
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gaming is not the area that matter most
not even ssh to help you...
I didn't say it was. I didn't even imply that.
that must be a feature of your config.
Instability and slugishness is a "feature"? That's terrific!! Where is the option to turn that "feature" off??? Please tell me. I'm dying to know.
I use Mandrake and an nVidia card (nVidia driver), and not a single chresh. all was automaticli configured....
I used Mandrake for several months. I even bought the 9.2 Power Pack DVD. I didn't experience as many problems with X as I'm having lately, but it was every bit as sluggish.
Window movement, resizing, redrawing is still painfully slow. Face it ... X is a joke. Linux needs a new windowing engine.)
right on this one. X protocol "feature", but X.org server 6.8 solvs some(or moust) of issus...
What was solved? I just emerged xorg-x11 6.8 a couple of days ago. After which point X wouldn't even boot. Though I quickly discovered that that was due to a renaming of the keyboard module. It use to be "Keyboard", now it's "keyboard". But it's still as slow as ever. Have any of you people ever used X with multiple monitors? I use to have a triple-head setup, but now I've settled on dual-head. It's still horribly slow, but not as bad as triple-head was.
try using a bugy driver on windows
True, but safe mode has always sufficed to get me out of any video jams I've ever ran into.