New to linux gaming

[wildman4god]

I have a question, I usually play games on consoles, i've never really toughed them on a pc but now I want to, my question is what is the minimum system requirements i need to play any and all of the linux opensource FPS, The laptop I currently have is a dell latitude D600 with a gig of ram, a 1.8 GHz CPU and 32MB of graphics ddr2 64bit ram (Ati MobiityRaedon 9000) Is this enough to play most linux FPS or do I need more.

[LinuxFox]

System requirements vary depending on the game, this also applies to Windows and Mac games. I don't know how good a mobility graphic card would be, I never used one. With a 1.8 processor and a gig of RAM you should be able to play some games.

As for FPS, Open Arena would be a good start. It's kind of like Quake III Arena. I would suggest Nexuiz, but looking at the requirements I don't know if your card would work. The Nexiuz site (http://www.alientrap.org/nexuiz/information.php) says GeForce2 as the minimum, and an ATI 9600 recommended.

I hope this helps out a bit. If you have a mouse, I suggest using it instead of a touch pad, might help aiming eaiser.

[Artificial Intelligence]

With Ati MobiityRaedon 9000 you can't run all the the FPS games out there. But there's some which FPS that can run on low end videocard.

[crazyfuturamanoob]

Your system can surely handle every FPS game for linux, since they all have so crap graphics.

Also, I want to recommend you AlephOne, that's one of the best games ever made, and works natively on Linux.

[dreamer84]

I have a MobilityRadeon9200, which works quite well. I haven't tested many linux-games yet though, but everything older than 2-3 years should run (at least in windows it did).
Anyway, just test it, as you won't have to pay for open source :-) For older windows-games you might also consider testing them (or their demos) with WINE...

[MaxIBoy]

You can download a file called bad.cfg, that will turn Alien Arena's graphics down further than possible in the menu. You should have no problems running Alien Arena at competitive framerates with that file.

[compiledkernel]

Your system can surely handle every FPS game for linux, since they all have so crap graphics.

Also, I want to recommend you AlephOne, that's one of the best games ever made, and works natively on Linux.

Last I check Crazy Nexuiz, Sauerbraten, Warsow, OpenArena (and really any ioquake3 based game), Urban Terror, Tremulous, Enemy Territory, True Combat Elite, and World of Padman all didnt have crap graphics (actually if you take the current release of Nexuiz and crank it up to Ultra high , youll find the game unplayable on anything less than an Nvidia 8200 class card).

Not to mention ETQW, Quake IV, Unreal Tourney, Unreal Tourney 2003/2004, Postal 1 and 2, and Doom 3 (all commercial games) that are native by install and will also cook up a midrange card without much effort.

To the OP -- Look here

http://gaming.gwos.org/doku.php/games:fps

[MaxIBoy]

Full graphics in Alien Arena really push my rig to its limits, and Radeon HD 4850, 4 GB 1066 mhz DDR2 RAM, and Quad-core Phenom clocked at 2.8 Ghz is nothing to sneeze at.