From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 5 07:17:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0922216A420 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 07:17:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from agh@tpg.com.au) Received: from mail9.tpgi.com.au (mail9.tpgi.com.au [203.12.160.104]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7216C43D48 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 07:17:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from agh@tpg.com.au) X-TPG-Antivirus: Passed Received: from [192.168.0.2] (220-244-72-6.static.tpgi.com.au [220.244.72.6]) by mail9.tpgi.com.au (envelope-from agh@tpg.com.au) (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k157HDLK019818 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 5 Feb 2006 18:17:15 +1100 From: "Alastair G. Hogge" To: Xn Nooby Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 18:17:10 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200602051543.57990.agh@tpg.com.au> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602051817.11156.agh@tpg.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any good OpenGL games? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 07:17:18 -0000 On Sunday 05 February 2006 17:25, Xn Nooby wrote: > On 2/4/06, Alastair G. Hogge 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