Glx, Wine, And Games

Hello all, I am a new SuSE user for the most part, and I am trying to run several games through steam. My first recent suse install was last tuesday on 10.3 with KDE. I installed AIGLX and compiz fusion. I installed steam and Team Fortress 2, which suffered from a low framerate and what appeared to be shader issues. I decided to reinstall and work with a clean slate since I didn't like compiz fusion, and didn't want to work off of a shaky AIGLX config.

So, I reinstalled with KDE again, but this time no AIGLX or sketchy compositing managers. I appear to have the latest nVidia drivers via Yast, but I am wondering what I should do to ensure the best performance in the few games I plan on running.

I realize this may sound silly, running my games on suse instead of dual booting, but I recently decided to switch to linux cold turkey, without an immediately available alternative, in order to force myself to learn what I need to to make it a viable choice for myself. I had run various distros before, but never without keeping windows available in the event I needed to do something important. Unfortunately I found myself switching over every time I needed to do something I didn't understand, and that's no way to learn.

So, I'm wondering what I should do to make my system run as smoothly as possible(hopefully with games)

My System:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
ASUS P5B Deluxe (P965)
2 Gigs of DDR2 800
EVGA GeForce 8600GT (256MB GDDR3, PCI-E)
I also have an X-FI sound card, but have been using the onboard for now due to various problem

Thanks in advance!

i think that there is a switch you need to use in front of your WINE command,

WINEDEBUG="fixme-all" wine /path/to/Steam/steam.exe

i found a link here which may also help --> http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showto...l=counterstrike

your system is twice the spec of mine lol and i get decent framerates in CSS/HL2/DOOM3 and so on so you should be fine

you should have very llittle problems running games with your setup. The only tip i have to offer, is that if you are running a fairly intensive game, run it in a minimal window manager like windowmaker. The overhead of KDE or Gnome sometimes can be a bit too much.

I personally do all of my gaming on suse, between Cedega and Wine most games that I like can be played.

I myself switched a few days ago fully to Linux at home... Except for gaming I must say that I don't see why I should go back to windows, it even frustrates me every time I start Windows in school but helas I have to use it...

I also must say that after seeing how Linux works I find it actually quite easy to use, and hey - no more system slowdowns, crashing windows, slow boot-ups and ridiculously expensive Krap software for me!
I'm also going to buy the next SuSe release cause I want to support this.

p.s. try to use linux-only software alternatively to the windows software you used before. This way you're on your way to total migration and only-windows software doesn't deserve supporting anyway in my opinion.