64 bit Linux...is the holy grail out there?
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All games? Of course not. There's no machine that will play all games. That's just silly.
You can play many games that are available for Linux like UT and Doom3. You may have to compile your own engine but there're guides for that.
You can play many games that are available for Linux like UT and Doom3. You may have to compile your own engine but there're guides for that.
The Quake series run just fine and I'd imagine Doom3 does too (albeit with a downloaded "exe". Cedega can be used to run some PC games. But as mentioned above, gaming is fairly limited with regards to Linux. I dual boot for this very purpose.
Doom 3 ran fine on my 64 bit machine, as does Quake 4 and Darwinia. There should be no problem running a 32bit Linux game on 64bit Linux since the kernel has an option to enable 32bit emulation (probably enabled by default for most popular distributions of Linux).
The kernel option is in: Executable file formats / Emulations.
The kernel option is in: Executable file formats / Emulations.
cb_linus said:
Unfortunately this is not the case for all linux distributions. Fedora (FC3,4,5) 64bit versions handle their libraries in a different way apparently so your 32bit games don't know where to look for them. A few other Linux distros don't include any 32bit libs in order to be fully 64bit. Although if you are using Ubuntu you should be fine.
So in other words you will run into trouble when using a 64bit OS. Unless you have a GOOD reason to use a 64bit OS .... DONT.
Well, I'm surprised if some of the more popular 32bit Linux distros don't include 32bit support by default. I think Suse has 32bit emulation included by default. Gentoo is fine (just drags in the dependencies when needed).
32bit may be the easier option to 64bit for some things (the gap is closing in my opinion), but I think the transition to 64bit in Linux is being made that much easier because of the numbers of people adopting it now and giving feedback to developers
I'll admit I can't see any performance differences in 64bit over 32bit for what I use Linux for (day to day desktop os) but I run into very few problems if any now on 64bit that I can happily justify not using 32bit - six and two threes - or should that be 10 and two 01s?
32bit may be the easier option to 64bit for some things (the gap is closing in my opinion), but I think the transition to 64bit in Linux is being made that much easier because of the numbers of people adopting it now and giving feedback to developers
I'll admit I can't see any performance differences in 64bit over 32bit for what I use Linux for (day to day desktop os) but I run into very few problems if any now on 64bit that I can happily justify not using 32bit - six and two threes - or should that be 10 and two 01s?