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I was wondering what MMO's are currently out that support Linux Ubuntu. I just installed it, but I'm dual booting with Windows. I can get WINE on my Linux partion and set up my games that way, but the thing is I'm tired of doing work to get my games to work *cough* Vista *cough*. If I have to, I will get WINE and make them work that way... but are any out there compatible with Linux straight out of the box?
(Not talking about browser-based)
Hmm... With a bit of searching I've come up with a list of games that should work with Linux. Adding the games you guys came up with, it is a pretty hefty list. Maybe this should be a sticky? 
32-bit:
AstroMenace
Funguloids
Irrlamb
Secret Maryo Chronicles
X-Moto
Battle Tanks
Beats of Rage
Metal Blob Solid
Beyond the Red Line
Thunder & Lightning
X2: The Threat
Air Buccaneers
AlephOne
Alien Arena
Clone Bandits
Enemy Territory
Legends
True Combat Elite
Interstate Outlaws
Postal 2: Share the Pain
Tactical Ops: Crossfire
Unreal Tournament 2004 DVD
Warsow
World of Padman
Gcompris
Memonix
Dofus
Regnum Online
Tibia
Vendetta Online
Frets On Fire
DigiBand
Creatures 3: Internet Edition
Frozen Bubbles
Head Over Heels
Pingus
Runes Of Avalon
Extreme Tux Racer
H-Craft Championship
Freedroid RPG
Alien Swarm
Battle for Survival
Battle for Wesnoth
Darwinia
Dominions 3
FreeCol
N.E.R.O.
Savage: The Battle for Newerth
Stargus
Widelands
64-bit:
Advanced Strategic Command
Alien Arena
Alien Swarm
Alien Swarm: The Telic Campaign
Arkanoid: Space Ball
AssultCube
Astro Menace
Battle for Wesnoth
Beyond the Red Line
Clone Bandits
Darwinia
Dofus
Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars
Dominions 3: The Awakening
Doomsday
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Eschalon: Book I
Eternal Lands
EVE Online: Trinity
FreeCiv
FreeCol
FreeOrion
FreeRa
GalCon
Glest
H-Craft Championship
Hero of Allacrost
ITeam
Legends
Lost Labyrinth
Memonix
Nexuiz
Neverwinter Nights
Open Arena
Open City
OpenTyrian
PlaneShift
Postal 2: Share The Pain
RiotBall
Runes of Avalon
Savage: The Battle for Newerth
Scorched 3D
Secret Maryo Chronicles
Soulfu
Stargus
Tactical OPS: Crossfire
Teewars
Transfusion
Tremulous
Unreal Tournament 2004
Urban Terror
Vega Strike
Vendetta Online
Warsow
World of Padman
X2: The Threat
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I know of Eve, Wurm online and Tale in the desert.
I don't know much about Linux, but I did see this posted on LOTRO forums. If it works with Ubuntu or not I don't know. But seems you can play LOTRO and DDO from linux using this.
http://www.lotrolinux.com/
Hope that helps some!
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Add Dofus and Vendetta Online to the list
Yeah, it's a long list. But I think only about 1/5 of the games are MMOs or even multiplayer.
I don't use Linux for gaming anymore, I just got tired of having to work at it or putting up with glitches and inconsistencies.
However, WoW worked wonderfully with Cedega and I think WINE runs it perfectly now also. Guild Wars worked like a champ in Cedega, no idea how WINE handles it. Both of those (especially WoW for obvious reasons) had a lot of effort put into supporting them so I never had to do anything to get them to run other than setup a desktop icon.
America's Army (FPS not MMO) used to have a native Linux client but I think development on that was scrapped a year or more ago?
I'm hoping (perhaps hoping against hope) that Masthead, being a European company where Linux is possibly a larger market, will take CCP's lead and provide native Linux and Mac clients for Earthrise, like CCP has for EVE...
Linux is fun, but too much of a pain to use on a regular basis. It's good to see if getting some gaming love. Certainly a bigger list than I would have expected
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Hopefully as more games are written to support Macs they will be easier to port over to Linux (since they are both Unix flavors). However, I doubt that anyone will want to officially produce a Linux version of anything major just because it would be a pain in the neck to support all of the different Linuxes out there and there is very little commercial demand at the moment.
When I was considering switching operating systems fulltime a few years ago, my biggest problem with Linux was weak driver support for the latest/greatest devices (there wasn't a free driver for any Audigy sound card for a long time, for example).
But I use Linux to get work done as a coder all of the time. And, as it turns out, it's the only way I can VPN into my job because Cisco still hadn't written something that works with Vista-64 the last time I checked...
LotRO will run under Ubuntu.
One of my gaming rigs at home uses LINUX only and it plays LotRO quite will using Wine and Mono.
There is a thread on the Ubuntu forums dealing with this exact issue.
Here it is:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ighlight=lotro
Link for a LINUX graphical interface launcher for LotRO: http://www.lotrolinux.com/
I think the only thing that hasn't been worked out is patching the High rez client in LINUX. You actually have to do it in windows then transfer the files.
Einherjar_LC says: WTB the true successor to UO or Asheron's Call pst!
Same thing with Tabula Rasa. Installing and patching doesn't work, but the game runs fine with Wine. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=11093
<blockquote><i>Originally posted by Fennris</i>
<br><b><p><font style="background-color: #000000">Hopefully as more games are written to support Macs they will be easier to port over to Linux (since they are both Unix flavors). However, I doubt that anyone will want to officially produce a Linux version of anything major just because it would be a pain in the neck to support all of the different Linuxes out there and there is very little commercial demand at the moment.</font></p>
<p><font style="background-color: #000000">When I was considering switching operating systems fulltime a few years ago, my biggest problem with Linux was weak driver support for the latest/greatest devices (there wasn't a free driver for any Audigy sound card for a long time, for example). </font></p>
<p><font style="background-color: #000000">But I use Linux to get work done as a coder all of the time. And, as it turns out, it's the only way I can VPN into my job because Cisco still hadn't written something that works with Vista-64 the last time I checked... </font></p>
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Actually,
I can be made easier. some game companies actually code their own included libraries, or statically compile them in. this way, you are not dependant upon the libs in a particular distro of linux. I know that PS (Planeshift) and Regnum online (the king is dead! long live the king!) do this and it seems to work fairly well. Vendetta Online is another game that works using this method.
You can add Second Life too, running without problem on Ubuntu, however I am using an alternate client, not the official one (that is crashing too much).
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pretty sure runescape works
age of armour works as well as guild wars and wow
Why is there a poll on what games linux can run? It's just some software as Photoshop and such it can't run.
There is lots of programs and tweaks to make you run basically any game you desire on Linux.
The speed of the mole and the power of steel is my weapon
I have just switched to Linux. I miss Civ4, and FreeCiv is hardly the same :P
But... Vista... well pushed me over the edge. I'm glad to see there are a few good ones out there.
I thought the main problem was DirectX? OpenGL does not have the same support. On the plus side I play less games... but if EVE is supported ... that might change :P
If your including FreeCiv than Transport Tycoon Deluxe takes upto 12 players i think.
Im also using linux for gamming, but of course have dual boot xp, just to find out if the game is good before use all the time to installing it on linux, I have used both ubuntu and debian, and it works....
played most of the time wow, and with wine works it nicely... the good thing about linux is that there is alwayes a forum who is willing to help u out...
and if more people is playing games on linux, then the gamming industry must see that linux is a gamming platform too
I've just updated my PC to Opensuse 11.0 (an excellent OS) and with Virtualbox from http://www.virtualbox.org I'm running Windows XP for any of those games I can't be without but are troublesome on Linux. I've installed and am currently updating Lotro through the virtualbox/XP setup and it seems to be going well. I'll report back if I get any problems but for all intents and purposes I'm running the game on an XP machine, so it should just work.
For those purist out there who balk at the idea of running Windows in any form, you are unfortunately left with the likes of Wine from http://www.winehq.org, Cedega from http://www.transgaming.com or Crossover from http://www.codeweavers.com/products. Forgive me if I missed any. These solutions try to run the games without the need for a (true) windows instalation at all, while Virtualbox needs a fully licenced version of windows to be installed onto a virtaul PC. After that, it runs within Linux and at the very least removes the necessity to dual boot. Oh... and it's free!
I hope that helps a little.
EDIT:
Something I forgot to mention in the first instance is that you have to make sure that your graphics and sound systems are set up correctly before installing games into your virtual XP, otherwise they won't find the resources they're looking for. I found a lot of help here... http://forums.virtualbox.org
Now I'm going back to getting beaten up by Wargs.
linux is great for everything apart from gaming and dont blame linux for that blame the devs who dont make the source for the game available too linux users
Games on Linux are bad. Driver support on Linux is bad. Running games in a VirtualBox Windows XP Session on Linux is very LOL...
Linux gaming is and will always lag behind that on Windows, at least for the commercial titles, because Linux has notoriously bad driver support and Linux distro makers are not allowing for the proprietary drivers to be packaged with the Operating system.
Not all gamers are techno geeks and not all MMO players are extremely well versed in computer literacy. Installing device drivers can break your system in Linux, and make you reinstall everything at some times.
Linux just isn't a user friendly OS at the moment, and the open source fanatics are holding it back in the gaming industry because of zealotry and hatred for all things not open source. They act as if all graphics card developers make crappy on-board graphics chipsets like Intel and are willing to part with their IP on a whim.
As a result of that, Linux gets bad support from the card makers, the drivers are worse than for Windows as a result, compounding the issue.
Bottom line is that Linux is such a non-stable platform to develop for that it ends up costing way too much in developing and supporting commercial applications for it. That is why most of the commercial Linux software is NOT consumer/desktop software, but business and/or server applications.
Mac OS X succeeds as a UNIX operating system because Apple took what was open and closed it up a bit. Operating systems cannot become stable-enough platforms for developers when they are prone to control by many entities (1000 distros) and move every other month. Being controlled by one entity makes developers feel better. Would you bet all of your investments on the success of a community-driven product? Linux simply moves too fast, too often, and too unpredictable to be a viable option for serious commercial desktop and game application development, at the moment.
Apple is based on BSD. BSD and Linux are not the same. I'm sure it can make porting easier depending on which APIs you use, and how the application is developed, but applications of this size are usually never trivial ports.
Ubuntu is like the WoW of Linux. You use it for a while but always end up complaining because so much is either missing or dumbed down.
I would not call Linux great as a desktop system. I would, however, call it great as a development system (but I would rate Solaris above it in that area). It is a niche system that does well for Open Source zealots, but with Mac OS X as a viable Windows alternative... Why even bother dealing with Linux and it's problems/deficiencies?
Not sure why anyone would want to game on linux. Yeah its free and all and you don't have to worry about viruses(and thats only because nobody wants to make viruses for a OS that hardly anyone uses.)
Windows plays my games just fine, id rather spend my time gaming and not trying to get games to work. Not my Idea of fun.
And yea, you have to worry about viruses on Windows (and spyware, etc.), but most Linux users are more at risk than many Windows users who take the necessary precautions because they also have binaries and services on their systems that can be exploited to give intruders root (Administrator) access. Linux is probably the most patch OS on the planet, in terms of Security issues.
I wonder if they even bother to run Lint on their source code with some of the elementary exploits that sometimes pop up in some of those packages.
Windows has made HUGE improvements to Security, but the hardcore Linux users will always cite Spyware, Viruses, Worms, and Trojans (or the lack thereof) as one of Linux's main selling points.
They will not tell you about the shoddy drivers that are available. They also won't tell you that if you ask how to get codecs to play various proprietary media formats that they will flame you so hard that you will wish you were in hell instead.
That is a lie, and very untrue.
EDIT: Why is that link in your signature?
Because he's a goldfarmer?
Anyway, linux has always been the idealist's OS, and will stay that way. OpenCatch22, they could've called it, as people dont develop for it because its not commonly used, and people dont use it because its not /as/ commonly developed for or supported.
I run Linux, and enjoy it. I don't think I'd have been able to use it if i were a more serious gamer, or needed everything to run without having to sort out issues. You have got to be kidding me, however, if you say that vanilla windows is more secure or stable than linux (esspecially when you pay the same amount, nudge nudge, wink wink).
One thing that windows does absolutely massacre linux at, tho, is offline usability. Pretty pointless talking about it on a mmOrpg forum, but it has to be said, running linux on a pc not connected to the internet is nigh pointless, unless you only use a fixed set of applications.
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Yes, you "can" be less secure than Windows on Linux if you do not stay up on the patches. There is a difference between Virus threat and exploit threat. A free Virus Scanner on Windows like Avast! [Home Edition] can make Viruses an afterthought, but that is not the case for exploits...
Linux is a tech-savvy OS and alot of distros come with alot of open ports. Many users do not know how to set up and use a firewall on Linux. It is not as easy as using a free firewall (like Comodo Firewall) on Windows, and many times the control panels that come with the distro are horrible. This is especially true for Linux enthusiats who try to use things like LAMP stacks and end up configuring their system incorrectly and in an "open" manner. BSD and Solaris beat the socks out of Linux when it comes to security. I think Windows is making big inroads on Linux in terms of Security. Most of the negative hype about Viruses and spyware are the result of bad computing habits that would kill a user on both Windows and Linux (the environments are different, but the threats are equally dangrous).
Patches on Linux have a high rate of breaking systems, because of the way the systems are designed and people's use of proprietary or custom-tailored drivers in their systems. That is why they are so big on developing free drivers for ATI and NVidia graphics cards. Open Source zealots hate all things closed and they do not support ATI and NVidia keeping their driver sources closed to protect their Intellectual Property. Unfortunately, the open source drivers are horrible and in some cases, you may not be able to use the latest Linux distro along with the proprietary drivers because they are not Backward Compatible like their Windows variants, and tied closely to Kernel Versions and revisions. You can use an old version of ATI or NVidia's drivers in Windows, but you can't use the old driver that supports you card (cause the newer driver dropped support for it) because it requires kernel version 2.6.xx and you have kernel 2.6.xx+5...
Updating the Kernel in Linux can = updating half or more of your proprietary drivers (usually compiled as kernel modules). You don't have to do that when you install a Windows Service Pack.
The free software available for Linux does nothing but make it usable. It will never be on par with Windows IRT the consumer desktop market (the business sector can still use it because they usually use only a subset of applications and in some cases custom applications) until there are some serious changes in the open source development culture. Freedom is good, but they are totally abusing it (1000 Linux distros making development and support for Linux a nightmare and untouchable for many commercial software developers).
Linux is best used as a small server OS (Web/Email Servers) or in custom devices (like Routers). There is something better at almost everything it does, though. It is truly a jack of all trades among Operating Systems [and a Master at nothing]...
You wanna talk about patches? Let's take a look at M$ a second. They have have so many updates and patches, they bundle them in SP's. XP is on SP3. Microsoft bragged about the London Exchange running on MS Server. A month ago, after a year running, they got hacked. Bad. Meanwhile, the NYSE, running on Linux servers, has had no issues. In my last duty station, we ran everything server-wise on unix-based software. We never left anything other than workstations to the broken Windows.
It comes down to design. The kernel side of linux is separate from the GUI. To install anything, you need to access the /root and give the password. Windows doesn't have such separation. They tried the same with Vista, but it was more of an annoyance than any real good. Hence why not only are there no issues with viruses in linux, but there are no issues with any other malware. Never once on ubuntu is it necessary for me to run any scan for such, and the system just works!
I will admit, for games, most people don't want to hear about WINE or Cedega. They just want to download it or load the DVD and have it work. Linux isn't there. But please, don't say Windoze is more secure. I'll take my system against yours, with your antivirus disabled and spyware off, and see whose lasts longer. Mine is over a year and counting. Yours?
Developers will wake up once they realize one out of ten(and climbing) computers sold is an Apple(figures last year). As was said before, if they can design for OSX, which was based on BSD, it's an easy port to linux.