From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 23 5:15:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 473B237B42C for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 05:15:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dleimbac@earthlink.net) Received: from 1Cust222.tnt1.starkville.ms.da.uu.net (1Cust222.tnt1.starkville.ms.da.uu.net [63.30.107.222]) by swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA16226; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 05:15:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200104231215.FAA16226@swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 07:17:13 CDT From: Dave Leimbach To: Rasputin Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gaming on FreeBSD... Reply-To: dleimbac@earthlink.net X-Mailer: Spruce 0.6.5 for X11 w/smtpio 0.7.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Don't say never. I get over 90fps in Q3 in linux. Q3 in windows looks no where near as good. Of course that with those special Nvidia kernel modules/glx modules in place on a GeForce2 MX card. Dave On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Rasputin wrote: > Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 09:52:13 +0100 > To: questions@freebsd.org > From: Rasputin > Reply-To: Rasputin > Subject: Re: Gaming on FreeBSD... > > * markemmanuel [010421 04:44]: > > 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. > > To be blunt, it won't be as good as Doze. > > This is a very common question on various free OSes these days. > There are hardly any games released for Linux, let alone *BSD. > Running stuff through WINE often works,but it'll never be as > fast as Doze code running on Doze. > > (Although oddly the Linuxulator *is* faster than Linux running the > same code, at least in my experience. Netscape comes to mind.) > > What's wrong with keeping a Windows partition around for playing games? > You've probably paid for it in one way or the other, > it's all Windows is good for, so why not use it for that? > > Squeezing Window games into UNIX (*if* you#ve already shelled out for > Windows) is IMHO as illogical as trying to use a Windows machine to do > any > kind of useful work. > > (Not trying to knock the spirit of 'I wonder if I can do this?', > just trying to be practical.) > > -- > "If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." > -- J. Paul Getty > Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns :: > > 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