Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 23:20:22 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any good OpenGL games? Message-ID: <43E5A736.9020208@u.washington.edu> 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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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 work. I didn't know if there were any other good ones. Is flightgear or gl117 any good? >>> >> I just installed jfduke3d and downloaded the high res texture >> pack...brings an >> old great game back to life. >> > > > Ah that was a great game back in the day of 'lan parties' ! > > > >> 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? Maybe Silent Assassin or City of > Heroes? (I'm not sure if they are OpenGL). 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? > Only if the game is purely OpenGL. Cedega and Winex produce mixed results at best. You could run Half-Life 1 with a bit of hacking if you wanted perfectly fine. The first time I played the game all the way through it was in Linux :). Good luck with DirectX stuff though since Microsoft is good at making installing fun, and you do need Cedega or Winex if you attempt to play those types of games... -Garrett
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