Games

Operating Systems

Microsoft Windows

Mac OS X

GNU/Linux

A list of games that work natively on GNU/Linux can be found on the Linux Games Database (free and non-free software inside) and on the Steam list, however neither are guaranteed to work on your machine.

Windows games can be run with some success using WINE, check to see its rating here.

Modifications

Digital Rights Management

Common Visual Effects

Ambient Occlusion

Anisotropic Filtering

Anti-Aliasing

Super-Sampled (SSAA)

Multi-Sampled (MSAA)

Coverage-Sampled (CSAA, EQAA)

Morphological (MLAA)

Sub-Pixel Morphological (SMAA)

Fast Approximate (FXAA)

Bloom

Dynamic Shadowing

Tessellation

Triple Buffering

Vertical Sync

Common Resource Types

Recorded Audio

Recorded video

Meshes

Textures

Colour Maps

Normal Maps

Specular Maps

External Links