RE: [MLUG] Dell To Offer Ubuntu

["Fallert, Adam Christian" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

No supprises there, both those games are sooo out of date and really weren't designed with faster or newer technology in mind.  I am supprised to hear anyone still plays those two games.  Try Battlefield 2 or Battlefield 2142, those games do get a definite boost from the 64 bit architecture even though they are 32 bit games.

-----Original Message-----
From: EMAIL:PROTECTED [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of shawn parker
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 5:57 PM
To: MLUG Members
Subject: Re: [MLUG] Dell To Offer Ubuntu

the two games i had sluggish performance under 64-bit were fps's.
battlefield 1942 and battlefield vietnam.

both run faster at higher resolutions on my nvidia 5500. they
generally perform better under straight 32-bit windows.



On 5/1/07, Fallert, Adam Christian <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> That is not what I have seen at the LAN's I with MaxxLAN have hosted.
> Even the 32 bit only games have at least faster frame rates and load
> times.  And that has been compared on machines running identical video
> cards.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Miller
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 4:35 PM
> To: MLUG Members
> Subject: RE: [MLUG] Dell To Offer Ubuntu
>
> On Tue, 1 May 2007, Fallert, Adam Christian wrote:
>
> > Well, if your son is using the computer mostly for gaming then he
> > probably is getting worth out of it.  Of course that also depends on
> > what games your son plays.  Right now it is mostly the FPSs that get
> the
> > most out of XP 64.  There is typically a clear distinction of texture
> > quality between 32 and 64 bit.  Of course it also helps to have a game
>
> > that is made for 64 bit or at least has a 64 bit patch.
>
> Or maybe XP x64 is worse when the program was not written for 64 bit and
>
> there is no patch, but better when the program was written for 64 bit
> and
> or there is a patch (installed).  That would make perfect sense to me
> and
> it would reconcile Adam's claim (above) with Shawn's claim (below).
>
> I'll have to ask my son if any of his games are like that.  I think they
>
> might all be 32-bit games.
>
> Mike
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> > [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Miller
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 4:07 PM
> > To: MLUG Members
> > Subject: Re: [MLUG] Dell To Offer Ubuntu
> >
> > On Tue, 1 May 2007, shawn parker wrote:
> >
> >> i ran xp64 for a while and performance on applications varied. i had
> >> some games that were "supported" and ran poorly. windows xp itself
> was
> >
> >> very good. fast, responsive, installed and booted quickly.
> >>
> >> also, a lot of software installed in legacy 32bit mode. some wouldn't
> >> even install under that.
> >
> >
> > This makes me think that my son would have been way better off if we
> > hadn't listened to the tech guy who sold us the computer.  He thought
> it
> >
> > would be fine to use XP Pro x64, but that was just not good advice.
> My
> > son really wanted his games to be fast and I'll bet he was not getting
> > what he paid for during this past 1.5 years of use because of XP x64.
> > That one guy screwed us up in a lot of ways with his bad advice --
> > delivered very confidently, I might add.  It wasn't just about the OS.
> >
> > Mike
> >
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