You are right - Chromium is a very good benchmark for a gaming Linux PC. Just trying it you can immediately tell if your OpenGL acceleration is properly setup or not... I think the trick for a Linux gaming PC is to have a decent OpenGL accelerated video card and enough RAM..


Roy Vestal wrote:
My gaming PC is PIII-733MHz, 256MB RAM, NVidia GeForce 2MX/200 with 32MB
RAM, RHL 9 w/Nvidia's latest drivers. BZ, UT, Heretic 2, Quake 3 Arena,
RTCW ET all work great.

Another "test" I've found is if Chromium works. It is part of the games
with the RHL distro.

On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 21:14, Carlos J. Cela wrote:
  
I have a P3 1GHz with a GEForce 2 and 1/2 GB RAM - BXFlag is very smooth 
(even with all the goodies on) and Unreal Tournament is snappy also. The 
trick for me was to properly configure the NVidia drivers and X...

Jim Ray wrote:

    
if something like a PII or PIII is all the horsepower required to play
bzflag given a decent video card, then it would stand to good reason
that a bottleneck exists only in the video department and not in the
processor department.

what is the optimum processor speed in order to make sure the processor
is not holding up progress?

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