Comments on: Epic Signs With Midway; New UT2004 Content Coming http://www.linuxgames.com/archives/6770 Embrace your Inner Penguin Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:36:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: plan9advocate http://www.linuxgames.com/archives/6770#comment-24887 plan9advocate Thu, 29 Jul 2004 19:44:21 +0000 #comment-24887 In this day and age, with computing hardware so cheap and available, it doesn't make sense not to support systems that can take advantage of so much potential resources. Plan9 encourages and actively supports distributed computing on many many different platforms. Imagine how fast you could make Unreal Tournament-based games go by just taking advantage of this and Plan9's infinitely improved threading model over linux? Everyone knows that UT's performance is improved on multi-CPU systems, for a start just by breaking out sound into a separate thread. Linux miserably fails to take proper advantage of this, and only in recent kernels is it even beginning to come close to ideal performance. UT2k3 and 4 is more CPU-bound, in general, than graphics bound. Logically, you could make use of implicit Plan9 features and commands (man 1 cpu) to completely remove the cpu bottleneck and massively improve the performance of any UT-engine game in pretty much every situation. I think it's stupid that Epic choose not to support Plan9, and mostly downright offensive that they don't put the bunny on the box. - Plan9Advocate In this day and age, with computing hardware so cheap and available, it doesn’t make sense not to support systems that can take advantage of so much potential resources. Plan9 encourages and actively supports distributed computing on many many different platforms.

Imagine how fast you could make Unreal Tournament-based games go by just taking advantage of this and Plan9’s infinitely improved threading model over linux? Everyone knows that UT’s performance is improved on multi-CPU systems, for a start just by breaking out sound into a separate thread. Linux miserably fails to take proper advantage of this, and only in recent kernels is it even beginning to come close to ideal performance.

UT2k3 and 4 is more CPU-bound, in general, than graphics bound. Logically, you could make use of implicit Plan9 features and commands (man 1 cpu) to completely remove the cpu bottleneck and massively improve the performance of any UT-engine game in pretty much every situation.

I think it’s stupid that Epic choose not to support Plan9, and mostly downright offensive that they don’t put the bunny on the box.

- Plan9Advocate

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.linuxgames.com/archives/6770#comment-24885 Anonymous Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:45:25 +0000 #comment-24885 Unreal Championship 2 is now being published by Midway instead of Microsoft. Neat. Unreal Championship 2 is now being published by Midway instead of Microsoft. Neat.

]]> By: Phorem http://www.linuxgames.com/archives/6770#comment-24884 Phorem Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:40:28 +0000 #comment-24884 I was about to blow my top (seeing how i bought the retail and dvd edition from tux games) before i saw..... "All of the new content in the upcoming version of their multiplayer shooter will be released on the net for free for owners of the first version of UT 2004" Wow. I thought somebody was going to die today :-\ Good to hear though. Like usual, i will buy it anyway if it has the Linux installer on the cd and that nice little Black and Yellow penguin on the box :-)) I was about to blow my top (seeing how i bought the retail and dvd edition from tux games) before i saw…..

“All of the new content in the upcoming version of their multiplayer shooter will be released on the net for free for owners of the first version of UT 2004″

Wow. I thought somebody was going to die today :-\

Good to hear though. Like usual, i will buy it anyway if it has the Linux installer on the cd and that nice little Black and Yellow penguin on the box :-))

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