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Article #94308Re: Patch for ME
From: NuQ
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 21:45
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 21:45
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Dan C wrote: > On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 18:06:24 +0000, John Moore 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?
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