Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 18:17:10 +1100 From: "Alastair G. Hogge" <agh@tpg.com.au> To: Xn Nooby <xnooby@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any good OpenGL games? Message-ID: <200602051817.11156.agh@tpg.com.au> In-Reply-To: <bdf25fde0602042225j7a47bd1dua274a8c3e478363c@mail.gmail.com> References: <bdf25fde0602041706g4f3c6c73o5ec6f06ccbfdcc41@mail.gmail.com> <200602051543.57990.agh@tpg.com.au> <bdf25fde0602042225j7a47bd1dua274a8c3e478363c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sunday 05 February 2006 17:25, Xn Nooby wrote: > On 2/4/06, Alastair G. Hogge <agh@tpg.com.au> wrote: > > On Sunday 05 February 2006 12:06, Xn Nooby wrote: > > > I have a P4 2Ghz with an nVidia card, so I installed the nVidia driver. > > > I'm currently installing 'linux-enemyterritory' which I think will [snip] > > I also have wine on my system, is it difficult to get windows opengl > > games > > > > > to run? > > > > OpenGL MS-Windows games under Wine seem to work ok. > > DirectX games are a little slow in my opinion. > > Have you tried any I might have heard of? I used to play Quake2, RtCW and something thru Wine but that was along time ago. > Maybe Silent Assassin or City of > Heroes? (I'm not sure if they are OpenGL). Don't know these games sorry. But winehq has a listing on City of Heroes: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=2141 > I've only used wine for zip, > 7zip, winrar, freeagent, and some other utilty apps. I wonder if wine will > detect that I later installed the nvidia OpenGL driver? Wine will direct OpenGL call to your OpenGL installation. > > I've heard of cedega on linux, but would rather roll my own free > > > > > solution if possible (or copy someone elses method). > > > > > > Playing "Call of Duty" would be ideal, or maybe Return to Castle > > > Wolfenstein. > > > > RtCW under Wine runs fines...most id games do I think. Also there is > > Linux binary of RtCW which is probably a better method then Wine. > > Is this one a FreeBSD native RTCW? > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/games/rtcw It's FreeBSD port of the linux version. > I lost my old Window pk3 file, but it looks they are free now: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/games/rtcw-paks/ No you still need the original paks. This port will just install them into the right places... > I will try it when Enemy Territory finishes. It's taken 5 hours to > download ET, whoever is hosting 250MB file isnt giving up much bandwidth. > But its free, so I'm not complaining. Much, lol. > > thanks! No worries
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