linux for gaming

i was thinking of switchign completely to linux even for my gaming. what would be the advantage fro gaming on linux woudl my games run faster(like higher fps, less lag). and is there a way to dedicate my systeme more towards gaming something like the xbox(all dedicated harware). im using pc linux and ubuntu.
also i heard of a programe called WineX but i cant seem to find of list of all supported games.
sorry if this all confusing i suck at explaining

e6750
mobo- p5k-vm
2 gigs ddr2
nvidia 8600gts
250 gig sata 2

and the games im into are stalker, oblovion, bf2, red orchestra, hellagte london, silent hunter 3 and 4, world conflict. those are teh games im playing at the moment

thank you. ill see if i can get soemthing working. is there any advantage with usign linux for gaming

Oblivion is buggy on any operating system.

It crashes constantly on windows.

Amazing game but very unstable

thansk for the info and ye si agree oblivion is crashy sometime i can only run ir for 10 mins at a tiem before i it crashes my compuetr our reboots it and other tiems i cant run it at all. al tho oldblivion runs amazingly

Good point.

-20 buggy
+50 gameplay
+50 graphics
+50 addictive
-25 closed source
-10 time consuming
-10 runs on xp
-10 no native linux version

+75 overall

Thanks

In my experience Morrowind crashed quite a bit, not quite a bad as Oblivion though.

Naturally the gaming experience and crashes may vary from machine to machine depending on the hardware, OS, drivers, patches, etc it depends on what the cause of the crash is.

My windows oblivion would probably crash on average every 3-4 hours (not necessarily in one sitting), or like zorak said, if I alt-tabbed about 3-5 times.

My wine oblivion was initially impressive. I followed all the instructions and transferred over a save game from windows. It loaded my game just fine and the game looked pretty good. I looked around a bit, the framerate was decent enough, but it locked up within about 10 footsteps. I chalked it up to a fluke and loaded it up again and had about the same experience. So it basically 'works'...you just can't play it =)

Thread hijack: the wine appDB has been down for the last 2 days. Anyone know if COD4 runs?

zorak: its a pretty bad horror story my oblivion. one day i got it to run for 20mins.

on my old pentium4 1,6ghz, with 1 gig rdram. with a 9200ati. it ran amazingly with oldblivion.

another game that is just as buggy is stalker. oh and i tried using linux for games it just aint my cup of tea.

OpenGL games will typically run well on Linux through WINE was well. For example, the original Half-Life runs perfectly on WINE for me. I've not tried to run HL2 yet which uses DirectX. But nothing will beat a native Linux version of a game, many of which run at least as well on Linux as they do on Windows. Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is a recent big title that has a native Linux version and runs very, very well on Linux.

I must admit that it has been a long time since I've been down here.

I must be one of the mystical few who have had very little problems with Oblivion. I've played frequently and the only crashes I've had with it were due to Nvidia's non-WHQL pre-release drivers (the initial ones for Crysis). I'm not running anything special either, an X2 4400, 320 MB 8800GTS and 2GB. The game has always run nicely with very acceptable image settings and speed. Once the pre-release drivers were removed (properly) the game runs without issue for me. It's really too bad about everyone's troubles because it really is a gorgeous game.

Your experience doesn't seem normal. I put in over 300 hours in that game and could count the crashes on one hand. This was using XP. I can't say how it does in Vista, though.

There is a lot going on in Oblivion, so much that if you have any sort of hardware issues/instabilities, it will expose it.

I run Vista 32 bit and I have only had one lockup with Oblivion. I have never just had an outright crash.

Not at the moment. I want to try it out real bad but I don't have my own computer right now. As soon as I build myself a new computer I will do a dual boot with linux and Vista/XP.

It's quite possible my systems have problems but morrowind crashed on a regular basis ( BSOD ) on a P4 for years and Oblivion BSODs on 3 of my AMD64s, 2 with nVidia cards and 1 with an ATI card.

I think what basketcase said is at least partially valid "There is a lot going on in Oblivion, so much that if you have any sort of hardware issues/instabilities, it will expose it. "


I've noticed that merchant inventories get slooooooooooooooooow when they have too much merchandise that tells me there's a bug somewhere.

Also the player's inventory gets super slooooooooooooooooooooooow sometimes.

The BSODs seem to be more frequent when there is a lot of intense combat goin on.

Despite all the problems i've had I can't wait for TES 5

I sure hope it runs on Linux