From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 23 5:31:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44DC437B42C for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 05:31:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rasputin@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 14rfV5-0000Sp-00; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 13:31:32 +0100 Received: (from rasputin@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f3NCVTb17217; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 13:31:29 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rasputin) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 13:31:28 +0100 From: Rasputin To: Dave Leimbach Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gaming on FreeBSD... Message-ID: <20010423133128.A17076@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Reply-To: Rasputin References: <200104231215.FAA16226@swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200104231215.FAA16226@swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net>; from dleimbac@earthlink.net on Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 07:17:13AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Dave Leimbach [010423 13:17]: > Don't say never. > I get over 90fps in Q3 in linux. Q3 in windows looks no where near as > good. Don't get me wrong, I was talking more about die-hard emulation nuts (of which I am one, although hampered by my innate stinginess when it comes to buying decent 3d accelerators). Q3 on Linux is possibly a special case, since John McCormack has explicitly stated that he wrote Q3 on Linux mainly to embarass MicroSoft into sorting out a decent network stack. Personally I'll stick with VICE and http://www.lemon64.com. Lazer Squad may not have the framerate, but any game that I'm still playing after 12 years (longer than I've been smoking) scores quite highly on the addiction scale :) > Of course that with those special Nvidia kernel modules/glx modules in > place on a GeForce2 MX card. /me ducks for cover in anticipation on another NVidia flamewar/DOS. > > 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. > > What's wrong with keeping a Windows partition around for playing games? > > (Not trying to knock the spirit of 'I wonder if I can do this?', > > just trying to be practical.) -- 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