This is as it says, a demonstration of Half Life 2 running on a Pentium D with 2.5 gigs (overkill) on Xubuntu, the least memory intensive version of Ubuntu, in fact it starts up on my machine in less than 128 MB of ram. Half Life 2 will run in under a gig, about 750MB in most cases, without dipping into the Virtual Memory on a 1GB machine.. Also I show in some of these videos how my CPU and memory are fairing. Note, Half Life 2 as with most Wine games will run in a window, allowing you to jump between the game and other system chores.. An option that is not common of most Windows games.
If you see any polygonal artifacting in the game, that's my sucky Palit NVidia graphics card, it frequently overheats and as a side effect has been acting up by inadequately assigning polygons to the wronge vertices, creating a splintering effect.. I'm planning to return it to Palit to get a new one. It also acts up in Windows XP on the same machine.. I play games on Ubuntu instead of XP because of all the crap that loads into my environment in XP, I get into the game faster on Linux.. Plus every little thing I can do to get independent of Microsoft is a big win, I feel.. But I keep XP in the odd case I get something that is not Linux compatible, like the Samsung T10 I just bought, Ouch.. Oh well at least my Samsung T9 works with Ubuntu..
Tags: Xubuntu Ubuntu Wine Half Life Rag Doll Physics DirectX 9.0c Pixel Shaders
