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Article #94309Re: Patch for ME
From: Dan C
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 22:15
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 22:15
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On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:45:16 -0600, NuQ wrote: >>> The bottom line is that Doom 3 and Quake 4 will run perfectly well on at >>> least WinME and I have read reports of D3 running on 98se. IMHO there >>> was no real good reason to exclude 98/ME systems. >> That is done because the game makers are in bed with Micro$oft, and this >> is one more way to get people to upgrade to XP. Of course, some of us >> aren't tied to M$ at all any more, and use Linux. Both of the above games >> run (natively) on Linux, and better than they do in Windoze... > If the game makers are in bed with MS, then why does it run, as you > claim, better on Linux? Wouldn't the game makers have made it run worse? No, because how it runs on Linux is out of the game-maker's hands. That's a function of the efficiency of the operating system itself, and the drivers. -- If you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much space. Linux Registered User #327951
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