From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 23 3:47:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (CPE-61-9-166-108.vic.bigpond.net.au [61.9.166.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A721437B424 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 03:47:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msergeant@snsonline.net) Received: from xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f3NAkg103268; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 20:46:45 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from msergeant@snsonline.net) Message-Id: <200104231046.f3NAkg103268@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Mark Sergeant" To: , markemmanuel Cc: "Questions freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Gaming on FreeBSD... X-Mailer: Pronto v2.2.3 On freebsd/mysql Date: 23 Apr 2001 05:46:41 EST Reply-To: "Mark Sergeant" In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quake 1 & 2 also work fine, tought when I tried to install Unreal Tournament last night on one of my boxes it would refuse to recognise the cd-rom to install it from so I have no idea on UT. Quake 3 also runs relatively well, to think my boss thinks I don't play games because I only have FreeBSD on my laptop. Cheers, Mark On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 00:31:33 -0400 (EDT), said: > The linux emulation layer isn't really an emualtor in the *BSD's. They > are a minimal set of shims that allow syscalls made by a running linux > binary to work. They are an alternate set of syscalls, which are wrappers > arround the native freebsd ones. When a linux binary is executed the > binary image "activator" recognizes it as a linux binary and sets up the > process table/syscall table entries for this new process telling the > kernel that for this process these shims are the entry points for any > syscalls that happen, instead of the native bsd ones. > > There is really no overhead for using these shims. > > The main difference in gaming on a freebsd box instead of a linux box is > that their are some differences in the way the schedulers on FreeBSD and > Linux boxes behave, especially for multithreaded applications. > > Myth2 runs, as does Unreal Tournament and Quake3. The latter two may > require a bit of work to get a 3d accelerator card running. > > On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, markemmanuel wrote: > > > I'm slowly pulling myself off of Microsoft's control over my computing > > needs. I'm really interested in the state of gaming on FreeBSD. I'm aware > > of binary compatibility on for Linux but how much is the performance > > affected FreeBSD? I'm interested in games like SimCity 3000, Myth ii, and > > Unreal Tournament. How does it stack up? Thanks. > > > > markemmanuel > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- The Sixth Commandment of Frisbee: The greatest single aid to distance is for the disc to be going in a direction you did not want. (Goes the wrong way = Goes a long way.) -- Dan Roddick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message