From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 27 8:53:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ns5.pacific.net.au (ns5.pacific.net.au [203.143.252.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E7AD37B403 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 08:53:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mckay@thehub.com.au) Received: from dungeon.home (ppp17.dyn248.pacific.net.au [203.143.248.17]) by ns5.pacific.net.au (8.9.0/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA11371; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 01:53:42 +1000 (EST) Received: from dungeon.home (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dungeon.home (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f6RFslq37181; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 01:54:47 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from mckay) Message-Id: <200107271554.f6RFslq37181@dungeon.home> To: "Karel J. Bosschaart" Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, mckay@thehub.com.au Subject: Re: Most BSD-like and games-friendly Linux? References: <200107271328.f6RDScq34621@dungeon.home> <20010727161921.A64682@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20010727161921.A64682@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> from "Karel J. Bosschaart" at "Fri, 27 Jul 2001 16:19:21 +0200" Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 01:54:47 +1000 From: Stephen McKay Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, 27th July 2001, "Karel J. Bosschaart" wrote: >On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 11:28:38PM +1000, Stephen McKay wrote: >> What do you do when you want to play action games? I'm talking heavy >> 3D OpenGL graphics, not just xbill. :-) >> >I have the Linux versions of Unreal Tournament, Quake 3 Arena and >Soldier of Fortune, and I play them in FreeBSD. Loki does a good job >when it comes to playing in compatibility mode :-). Their demo installer >works fine on FreeBSD. You're talking software only mode, right? That's not going to do it for me. >> My first choice would be FreeBSD, of course, but I've had not a great deal >> of success with FreeBSD and 3D action gaming. XP is coming soon, and I > >Yes, it can be a PITA to get hardware acceleration going properly in >FreeBSD. If you're interested in the latest news you can look here: >http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~eanholt/dri/ Interesting link. They reference a FreeBSD group desperately attempting to get the nVidia Linux driver working under FreeBSD. That's a reason to switch from Windoze to Linux for gaming instead. >I think that Slackware is the most BSD-like Linux... Slackware is looking good so far. >> Anyone willing to admit to being a Linux gaming expert on a FreeBSD list? :-) >> >Hmmm, would be a funny question to ask on a Linux forum what distro is best >for gaming :-). I'm after a lighter roasting than that! ;-) Stephen. PS Just in case anyone thinks I'm ragging on the Linuxulator, I've had a really good time with it for most things. But not for games. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message