Re: [PLUG] So... Gaming.

I installed steam for linux and am quite happy with it, I can play team fortress two for free, and I bought half life and counterstrike for reasonable prices, and I am supporting linux gaming by doing so. Steam will be porting more games to linux. Their plan for the future is a linux driven steam box. I am quite happy with where they are going with linux support, and these games run reasonably well on my dual core 3ghz with an nvidia 400 series card.

On Feb 13, 2013 10:02 AM, "Doug Stewart" <zamoose@gmail.com> wrote:

I wanted to get a quick sense from PLUG users what they're currently doing for PC gaming. I don't have dedicated access to a decent Windows PC for gaming use, though my MacBook Pro has Steam and many of the Mac ports of my Steam games on it. It's decent for those games which devs have seen fit to port over and there's always Crossover to try to shoehorn the port-less games in.

However, it's gotten to the point (particularly for first-person shooters) where it seems like I'd need a decently-equipped Windows PC in order to run them. What are folks doing to help stave this off?

PS: I've got a PS3 and a Wii, but I have a TON of back-catalog games grabbed off ridiculous Steam/Amazon sales that are just waiting for the right rig to come along and I really don't want to re-buy them for a console. Plus, keyboard + mouse whups a controller, any day.

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-Doug

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