Anyone played Crysis on Linux?

Hey all, title kinda says everything. The reason I'm asking is because my friend was supposed to be giving me an XP CD when I went to his house, but my family's trip to New Jersey got canceled, and his house is an hour away from ours (I'm in Pennsylvania), so now I'm without an OS for my new system.

The system is not for myself, I'm going to be selling it, and most people buying their own computer don't know anything about Linux, so installing Linux wouldn't be a permanent solution. I have some Linux CDs (both live and install), and I really wanted to test out Crysis on this rig to help me with some decisions for my own build.

I still need to get the optical drive to work (it won't open currently), but once that's done I'm ready to install drivers + OS, etc.......

And if it works well should I consider installing Linux with XP and dual boot?

Thanks for your time and sorry for all the questions......

Hey thanks for the reply! Full specs are:

Intel E2160 1.8GHz (soon to be overclocked to ~3.0GHz)
2GB OCZ 800MHz RAM
320GB WD SATA2 HDD w/16MB of cache
200GB Maxtor ATA HDD w/8MB of cache
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L mobo
Samsung SATA CD/DVD burner
eVGA 8800GTS 512 G92 video card

As I mentioned before the optical drive won't open, and I didn't get a chance to try and fix it yesterday, and USB devices aren't working. So I can't actually install even Linux until I fix those .

Anyway thanks for your help!

The optical drive was never working. You see, I put this system together from scratch (2nd build; first went off almost without a hitch), and this is my first SATA optical drive. I may have done something wrong with the installation. The last drive was IDE.

As for the USB, I don't know yet, although I've been reading that some people had to enable USB in the BIOS with this particular motherboard before they would work. The problem is that the system won't let me access the BIOS without a system disk, which I can't insert because the optical drive won't open, and I can't use my external DVD drive because the USB isn't working! So yeah, there's my problem.

Thanks again!

Actually, I forgot to try F1 and F2, although I'm pretty sure I already tried DEL and F12. Heh, I just realized I might have been trying F10 since this laptop I'm using has F10 as the BIOS key.

Thanks for the help mate

Well apparently I didn't try DEL, because that one finally worked. Once I got into the BIOS I was able to enable USB keyboards and mice, and then my stuff worked. Now here's the new problem: this is my first time actually installing Linux to the hard drive (I've booted from a live CD before), and I'm not really sure how to set it up. It also doesn't seem to be recognizing my 320GB SATA2 hard drive. Oh well, I've got a friend who uses Linux sometimes, and he should be coming out here on the 29th, so we'll get it working then at least. Again, thanks for your help linux_0!

Cheers

Give Ubuntu desktop 7.10-amd64 and Fedora 8 x86_64 a try.

http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu-r [...] -amd64.iso

http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/r [...] 64-DVD.iso

Both are very simple to install especially if you have nothing on your hard drives that you want to save because you can just do a default install and let the installer automatically partition the drive for you.

All you have to do is hit "next" a few times on the installer screens and select what you want to install.

GL

OK, thanks, I'll look into those. You've been really helpful, thanks a lot!

Thanks mate, I'd read about that when I was doing my research but then I forgot all about it lol. I'm going to try that this afternoon.

Remember - If it goes bang it was in the name of science!

The least complicated way is to install directly from the Fedora 8 DVD using the ISO image above.

Or from the Ubuntu CD using the CD image.

You can do a hard drive install but you still need to boot from CD or DVD or other boot device to do so and it is just more complicated and you may have to reformat the external drive.

GL