i'm not a gamer, but i'll pretend

Tuesday, August 24, 2004, at 11:57AM

By Eric Richardson

So I have a class on Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games this semester, which I mentioned yesterday. Today is the first class period. One of the "texts" is the game Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided. We get a free copy of the game and a 3-month free subscription, which is cool and all, but the hardware requirements are pretty intense. It requires a graphics card capable of hardware texture and lighting, which my GeForce4 is, but it's in a machine with a PII 400, and oh... It's running Linux. My laptop meets all requirements except the graphics card. I guess Annenberg is going to set up some lab computers for us, though, which should make it ok.

Update: For those of you who might be interested, here's a bit of the breakdown of the people in the class: * 6 male, 2 female * a few real gamers, but not all * one cinema-television PhD student