Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 05, 2003 01:18 AM
What kind of hardware do you run Tuxracer on?
On both my laptop (750 Mhz Pentium, 320 MB RAM<nobr> <wbr></nobr>,8MB video ram) and my desktop (700Mhz Duron, 768 MB RAM, 16 MB video ram) Tux racer will basically not run. It runs so slowly that I generally have to kill it from another terminal, to regain control of the machine.
My kid (4yrs old) has a 750Mhz Duron 196MB RAM and 8MB video card. I won't even attempt to run Tux racer on there. Before I moved my Kids machine to Debian, it Run Windows98 and there were plenty of games that run very well on it. Sadly, there is not much available for Linux. Wine will only run 3 out of about 40 games programs that she has on CD, so I'll probably reinstall Windows on that machine. Sad. But I don't want to deprive her off over 90% of her games.
I don't want to shell out for a muscle machine, thats partly why I moved to Linux in the first place. I will upgrade the kid machines video card though. Kids software should run on older hardware, though, since kids are more likely to have hand me downs, either at home or at school than adults
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Tuxracer is quite useless on older hardware.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 05, 2003 01:18 AMOn both my laptop (750 Mhz Pentium, 320 MB RAM<nobr> <wbr></nobr>,8MB video ram) and my desktop (700Mhz Duron, 768 MB RAM, 16 MB video ram) Tux racer will basically not run. It runs so slowly that I generally have to kill it from another terminal, to regain control of the machine.
My kid (4yrs old) has a 750Mhz Duron 196MB RAM and 8MB video card. I won't even attempt to run Tux racer on there. Before I moved my Kids machine to Debian, it Run Windows98 and there were plenty of games that run very well on it. Sadly, there is not much available for Linux. Wine will only run 3 out of about 40 games programs that she has on CD, so I'll probably reinstall Windows on that machine. Sad. But I don't want to deprive her off over 90% of her games.
I don't want to shell out for a muscle machine, thats partly why I moved to Linux in the first place. I will upgrade the kid machines video card though. Kids software should run on older hardware, though, since kids are more likely to have hand me downs, either at home or at school than adults
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