Gamer needs advice

[CrazYmonkeY159]

Long story short, ive made a move to Ubuntu a few months ago mainly because of my work

But now im planning to spend my sunday formatting my main PC

The only reason why I am thinking of dualbooting Ubuntu and W7 is because I am a gamer, and Its fairly elementary to install and play games on W7 (not to mention gaming performance on W7 is pretty OK if i do say so myself)

Now my main question is, is gaming under linux fairly easy to do? I'm talking new released titles everything from Warcraft III to BattleField BC:2. and how is the performance? Should i just rather install W7 purely for gaming purposes? I hardly LAN i mainly play Online/Singleplayer mostly

my system specs are pretty average look @ my sig

 

[Tinuva]

I would highly suggest to stay with dual booting and keep W7 purely for gaming. It is what I do at least.

Personally, I got most games to work under wine just fine, but you will notice the performance drop, and that is after you got the game working.

An example game, uses DX9 runs at 180fps under Windows 7 with default Windows 7 driver, under linux it gets about 40fps if I am lucky. NVidia card of coarse with binary driver on Archlinux (which by itself is pretty damn fast) with a Geforce 8800 GTS factory overclocked.

Windows currently just is the established gaming platform, and will stay that way until game developers care about linux and make native ports. I say this, because native ports of games reach the same if not higher fps than I get with the same game on Windows, unfortunately that is a handful only

 

[xumwun]

Some games do work well using wine but not all of them.
If you like to play games online (especially ones that use punkbuster) you will have a problem running them in linux