I'm thinking about getting into gaming but I'm not sure if my system can handle it.

[tholman_ut]

I am new to Ubuntu and have recently installed it on my old desktop and my laptop. I'm thinking about getting into gaming but I'm not sure if my system can handle it. My laptop is a 128MB of RAM and a 650MHz Intel PIII I think it may be too slow, does anyone have any comments? Then next is my desktop which has 256MB of RAM and a 500MHz PIII will that have enough to play some games respectibly? I just don't want to spend all the time loading the games for my system to bog down.

I also don't know that much about the gaming world but I've heard DOOM 3 is fun... Anything else that is a must play?

[Paerez]

I am sorry to have to break this to you... but Doom 3 will not run on a p3.

I would play half life 1, or diablo II or starcraft. Those will run great. Play some counter strike. But doom3? No. You'd probably have to spend at least $800 to buy a computer that could run Doom 3 at the lowest setting.

But tuxracer and gl-117 will probably be great too.

[GuitarHero]

Try Wolfenstein Enemy Territory. Its linux native, and from 1996, so it should run. A ton of people play it so dont think you are down grading to a crappy game. Its one of my favorite games.

[brownbear]

Don't forget Quake3. It's now open source so people like icculus (http://www.icculus.org/quake3/) have cleaned up the code / added features / ported to every os and generally done a good job.

[tholman_ut]

Sweet thanx for the advise.:D Where's the best place to download games from, as I'm new to Ubuntu this is the only site I know of.

[Artificial Intelligence]

You can check Ubuntu Game List (Link in my sig).