I recently put linux on a new desktop I was given (long term loan anyway). I have 550Mhz P3, 256MB RAM and an ATI Rage 128.

I cannot however, play RTCW mulitplayer or enemy territory.

The former simply crashes X and the latter is too juddery to be playable. I realise that the enemy territory thing could be a network problem.

My system should be more than up to playing these games shouldn't it? Why is this not working?

RTCW single player is fine

http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=6692

I know, I know - I just wanted to make sure it wasn't my system - I posted this after enemy territory was rubbish as well

just pointing it out for other people ;-)

enemy territory plays ok on a athlon 750 ,384mb sdram & geforce 2 pro 64mb 1024X768 res
Much better on 1800xp 1024mb ddr geforce 4 ti4200 128mb 1152 X 864 res

what resolution are you using?

My sister has been playing ET on Celeron 566 + GF2MX, and it worked fine. Perhaps try upgrading the display card to a GF2 class product very cheap should be nowadays (I see under US$15 in 2nd hand market for a GF2MX).

My main desktop resolution is 1024x768 but I think all these games are playing in 800x600

I can't really replace the hardware too much as the machine is only on a kind of permanent loan. I did do that before a bit and I just end up with loads of cheap hardware that I can't really use in the long run