Games on Linux

Ian Malone ibmalone at gmail.com
Thu Oct 25 13:13:52 UTC 2012


On 25 October 2012 13:20, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> Even on the most prolific OS, Windows, sound and graphics are the two
> main problems, and it looks like they always will be.  Then there's the
> issue that only the game players with money will have a computer system
> with a good enough graphics cards.  The average PC tends to have a
> rather average graphics card.
>

As someone who still keeps a windows install to play games
occasionally, and at the risk of very wildly off-topic, a new PC with
an average graphics card can handle most games (but not at the highest
settings, because, what do you expect?). Low end graphics cards are
quite a long way down in performance. There is a bit of a difference
in that when games get put on PC they (at the moment) get higher
definition graphics than the consoles because the platform can handle
it, though that can leave the lower end people in the cold. Of course
the fact the games on Windows are often about 2/3rds the price of
console ones does begin to bite eventually too.

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imalone
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