As I said in the poll, I have never player openarena.
On Nexuiz, I'm getting quite good with the Nex after playing a lot of Minstagib. Nowadays I dare to enter CTF games more and more.

Hmm Minstagib, if I remember right, that was the hardest level for me.. One of my favorite levels is the low gravity spacious one where everyone's jumping around platforms high up in the air..

I just had a round of OpenArena. I refer Nexuiz, but in single player OpenArena is better. In Multiplayer, OA didn't find any servers.

Yeah, I can't play multiplayer with those because of my connection so the multiplayer is not a variable I consider.. I think the situation for OA will improve on that as well though. There is no reason why it's popularity wouldn't be growing significantly.

I am yet to try OpenAreana. I don't game much..

I like openarena, a lot, its nice and easy to win at, which is something I like about games a lot

I also like nexuiz though

To be honest I haven't played either but I've only heard of OpenArena...and I hear of it quite often...Nexuiz...as I said I've never heard of it...chances are I'd prefer OpenArena...

Now that I know both rather well I'd have to say that I have no preference. Nexuiz has more appealing graphics, but I seam to prefer OA gameplay - the weapon/map/physics combinations that would be. (Still, a fine fast-paced minstagib match in dreckloch or so is always refreshing)

OpenArena also works much faster on older graphics cards. I bet it can fly easily even on onboard Intel GMA945.

I play OpenArena almost daily, I have lots of Quake Mods added to it to such as the Western Quake Mod, love the single player on it.

In general, if you have a crap ATI card, the default settings should be perfect, I get very very good FPS -- if you have a really good nice nvidia card (luck bastards) then turn the settings up all the way and enjoy beautiful renders . In single player mode: Its quick to setup and get into, deathmatch is my favorite. Multiplayer is also quiet easy and very addictive, my favorite maps are BASES3 and VOIDS4 -- a lot of people are online so youll never be alone.

Its quiet easy to install maps, just download any .pk3 file and move it into .openarea/baseoa. Anyways, its very fun.

I have tried Nexuiz, I found it too hard for my liking and my ATI was doing 12FPS on it so I really cant give a good review.

I have an ATI card, Radeon X800, and using it with free drivers (usually bundled), OpenArena works perfect with all settings turned to the max.

I didn't try any mods yet and I can't unfortunately play online because my connection is too laggy for that (EDGE + Satellite, not a good combination for real time online multiplayer). I sometimes play on our LAN though, usually with dad (since sisters are never really up for that sort of thing).

Cheers

You gotta be f***ing kidding me :|. Is Radeon X800 better then a Radeon M9200?

Because when I turn all the effects on blast, on single player: Laggy as hell with the frames.

The best I can do on single player is have the Player effect up on max. And have the texture effects on high and have the texture effects 1/2 way. Other then that, I start lagging.

I'm afraid X800 beats 9200 by far. Radeon 9200 uses an R200 series GPU while X800 uses newer R420.

Here is the relevant info on wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R200
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_R420

Also the X800 is the fastest open sourced-driver graphics card you can get along with the x850

check http://www.free3d.org for glxgears benchmarks

(even though its not the best benchmark )

X850 is a bit faster than X800 though. One of the X800 entries on that site is by me. It's a good reference for people who are looking for a supported card.

Nvidia cards should be showing up there some time soon too, as noveau driver continues being developed.

Cheers