The structure for graphics drivers changed completely from Windows XP To Vista. So forget your video card. You might have the latest and greatest money pit of a video card, but it still won’t run Battlefield 3.

Lets get a running start… Make sure KeepAlive is set to ‘On’, HostnameLookups is ‘Off’ and comment out most of the modules loaded in your default Fedora, Ubuntu, Suse, other bloated distribution’s choice for default modules. Most of them you won’t need or want to have available. You’ll probably need rewrite and php, …