hello again folks. after spending quite some hours trying to run opengl games and wine/cvscedega classics i came to the concluson: this is a pain in the ass. if i might say so. here some games i tried: quake I-iV doom III,lxdoom diablo 2 (with wine) many,many opensource opengl like tuxracer,foobillard,armagetron,chromium... there are two major problems, the first is DRI. as i imagined, there is no DRI support using ltsp and dipe.de`s nvidia driver package for ltsp. as direct rendering infrastr. spells, it tries to go arround the xserver to save time, but the xserver is what is used. i dont think there is some way around it to implement a DRI support by using network to send data. the second problem was, of course, the sound. while xine for example plays back even large hq files quite syncronized, all games i have tried had their sound skrewed up. while the smaller games, the open source ones, were still playable without DRI, but with GLX, the sound was kind of 1-2seconds late. larger games, q3a and up wouldnt run at all in with their native binaries, because of the missing GLX. quake I+II run smoothly, using GLX support, but with sound not even near to what it should be, it studders, lags, just sounds terrible. i tried all possible sound configurations i was able to set up. the problem with the sound seems to be, besides the latency (which would be ok i think), the fact that those games spit out 22khz sound, which just wont work like i wanted it to. 11khz is even worse. it tried some resampling ideas and so onbut all to no avail. emulated games, like diablo2 were a great mess. sometimes something ran, but it all crashed over and over. cedega did much worse here then wine. my resume is that for now linuxgames like tuxracer and foobillard are the way to go, quake2 and similar native games may be played, but wiithout sound. with media applications my ltsp system did much better. people who want to have a server serving real gaming clients will have to fall back to simply boot clients over network and not have them be a real thinclient like it is with ltsp. nevertheless small games (native 2dgames work like a charm btw) may be enjoyed on a ltspclient iwith the great plus of being able to play games like foobillard very smoothly even on very slow machines. as long as you have a nvidia gpu in them. my 500mhz client wirh geforce4 gpu and mr. ehrenbergs nvidia package on the server connected to my dual opterion ltsp server played foobillard on a large tv screen with all the graphical niceness absolutely flawless (besides the asyncron sound). which it couldnt to on its own. i dont think it is possible at all to implent DRI the usual way but since my 500mhz client now is able to playback any media i give it, i still like my ltsp. i think i will still try to get wine to run diablo2 some more times, i just imagined it to work, dont rightly know yet what exactly produces the tons of crashes. hope someone else has more success then me with this. mfg jonas beck
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