![]() They’ve got driver development down to a science - all their cards use the same drivers, and 90% of the driver code is the same between platforms. NVIDIA generally doesn’t need to make trade-offs between their Windows and Linux users. ![]() Um, by benchmarking it relative to their Windows version?īut i’d definetly put money on it that Nvidia considers Linux users second rate people and doesn’t really give too much of a shit about the quality of it’s drivers for the Linux platform. We can’t even see what shit is in the binary driver, so how can we judge that it’s good (of for that matter bad). A proprietory libGL, a proprietory kernel driver component, and an open kernel driver wrapper. Guys, firstly the Nvidia linux driver has two parts…the kernel hook and the proprietary binary driver. The card is about two years old and if ID can’t get a card that’s so recent to perform decently on their games then they’ve lost the plot as far as i’m concerned.Īlso, Nvidia drivers are broken in 2.6.9-rc4 – you’ll need to grab a diff file, apply the changes to the 2.6.9-rc4 kernel src tree, and then recompile…the kernel developers reasoning is expect more of this with those that use binary drivers…*joy* Hopefully Half Life 2 uses a bit more common sense and makes good user of “older” hardware.įYI i’m running an Athlon 3000 xp, 512mb pc3200 ddr ram, and a Nvidia Geforce 4 ti4200 64mb video card. As much as I loved Doom and Doom II to be bits, Doom 3 does nothing for me. I’m sorry but 640*480 is a completely unnacceptable resolution, and the frame rates are horrid. I’d say it’s tweaked to run on vs.net and they can’t be bothered to get off their behinds and tweak it to run properly on GCC based systems.įurthermore, any game that runs a system into the ground, even a powerful system like Doom 3 does should be shot. Unforunately ATI is even worse.Īlso, ID says that vs.net produces better code than GCC and to that i’ll say bullshit. But i’d definetly put money on it that Nvidia considers Linux users second rate people and doesn’t really give too much of a shit about the quality of it’s drivers for the Linux platform. Now if only more developers followed id on this… Linux also gains a few points from the install procedure – it never asked me for a cd key (interesting…) and didn’t bug me to have the CD in the drive when I ran it, which I found quite a turn-off in Windows – if anyone wants to pirate it they’ll just copy the damn thing, so why inconvienience everyone?Īnyway, I think that covers it… it’s certainly nice having a game that works this well in Linux. One thing I find nice is that I can gain a further speed boost in Linux by switching into a Fluxbox session – while it’s a bit of effort, you simply can’t free up memory in the same way in Windows. Plus there’s the lack of hdd thrashing – Windows was unresponsive for the best part of a minute after exiting as it frantically pulled everything back from cache. It definately feels smoother – Windows had a few nasty dips when anything sudden happened (like a door opening or something sneaky like that). Please keep in mind that you’ll need at least a Pentium II 400 or higher to enjoy the Chronic map, but that if you have the means, you’ll get to enjoy the following caliber of gameplay.Well I’ve just performed a very scientific test, consisting of playing a bit in each OS. A copy of Quake 3 Arena will only set you back $5.99 on Steam, as part of the current Steam Autumn Sale. Dre and Eminem are still available to download (for free) from places like ModDB and LVL, the Q3A database. ![]() The official website for Interscope’s Quake 3 Arena map ( preserved thanks to ) is one of the most 2000s things you’ll ever see: Image: Interscope Records via The Internet Archive Eminem just loved to flip the bird in press photos at the time. Designed as a promotional map for The Marshall Mathers LP and the Up In Smoke tour, it includes low-bit rate snippets of songs like “The Real Slim Shady.”Ĭhronic map maker Pete “MeatPak” Parisi also created skins and bots of Dre and Eminem, with the latter permanently extending his left-hand middle finger. The Chronic map consisted of a small, rundown city block dressed up with signage for Interscope’s marquee hip hop artists. But if you simply can’t wait to frag your friends as rapper Marshall Mathers, the real Slim Shady, you can do so right now in id Software’s Quake 3 Arena.īack in the year 2000, Interscope Records commissioned an official map for Quake 3 named Chronic that also included the very rough likenesses of Eminem and Dr. ![]() Eminem is coming to Fortnite with the launch of the game’s The Big Bang live event.
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