From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 5 07:20:29 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 2BD3516A420 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 07:20:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout3.cac.washington.edu (mxout3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C424143D4C for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 07:20:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.9]) by mxout3.cac.washington.edu (8.13.5+UW05.10/8.13.5+UW05.09) with ESMTP id k157KRuc024721 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 23:20:28 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.0.21] (dsl254-013-145.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.254.13.145]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.5+UW05.10/8.13.5+UW05.09) with ESMTP id k157KQQi015701 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 23:20:27 -0800 Message-ID: <43E5A736.9020208@u.washington.edu> Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 23:20:22 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060113) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200602051543.57990.agh@tpg.com.au> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' 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 07:20:29 -0000 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 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