I know that in uBuntu, you must use wine to play Windows game, and the wine makes the performance drop, well at least that is what i know, maybe i am wrong and i also seen lots of people with monster PC rig using uBuntu, and many games works just fine so here's a question to all those uBuntu gamer out there that have been successfully play a game with high settings and without a problem in performance do you think this Laptop ( which i am buying soon ) Specs: i7 2630QM GTX560 2GB 7200rpm HDD ( maybe upgrading to SSD as primary ) 12GB RAM this is ASUS G53SX will run games on Wine with at least medium-high and play fine? the games that i will be playing most is probably Skyrim and SWTOR and maybe Guild Wars 2 and MW3 i know these 4 is not yet out, but i take it that, if people can play Crysis2 on uBuntu with no problem like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmWTc0P85pU then i can see no problem with other games? thanks before! i seen some topics, and i can see that a lot of games work, but i just want to know, what are the minimum spec for a laptop to be able to play recent games with high settings and also i wonder if DX11 games will work fine in Wine? thanks a bunch
Was that even a question? You could play several games at once with those specs. Heck, you might even be able to do 3D gaming! With those specs, why not get a USB 7.1 sound card and game in 3D with surround sound? Honestly though, it's not so much about the specs as it is brand of graphics card. NVIDIA has great Linux graphics drivers, and ATI has poor Linux graphics drivers. So good job on getting an nVIDIA graphics card. Ok, actually I don't know about the 3D thing, especially with Linux, but the point is that you could get away easily with a quarter, if not, a sixth, or even a twelfth that RAM. And your graphics card is a beast. My 6 year old computer with only 1 gig of RAM and half a gig of video RAM went pretty fast with Linux, and Oblivion in Windows was no problem (still working out WINE + Oblivion personally, though others have succeeded). Remember that you won't be burdening your hardware with Windows. Just as a reminder of how lightweight the Linux kernel is, know that there's actually a distro of Linux, TinyCore, and the whole OS is 10 MB. Another, DSL, only needs 16 MB of RAM and the OS is 50 MB. Any extra burden from running WINE is made up for multiple times by replacing Windows with Linux. WINE does have to translate graphics calls into OpenGL graphics calls (that's all that Linux uses), unless the game is already only using OpenGL. So if a game has the option to use only OpenGL, use it, because you eliminate a step. You won't notice an improvement because your laptop is like 12 desktops put together, but you will emotionally feel better knowing that you made the process more efficient. Happy Gaming, SpawnHappy
Haha, yeah i know that specs are good for gaming, if it were for windows i wouldn't have even asked :P but because i will be using it through Wine, that is why i feel i needed to ask because my thought was, it would be just like using Parallel on Mac to play Window games, which is like virtually playing Windows game on Mac ( hence like playing it on a Wine in Linux ) so i thought that maybe it needed double the processor effort but anyway thanks, good to know that Nvidia is better with Linux, was about to go for AMD graphics laptop [Shocked]
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