From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 29 17:57:38 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDB041065672 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:57:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gw0-f54.google.com (mail-gw0-f54.google.com [74.125.83.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B5B98FC13 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:57:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwj21 with SMTP id 21so671887gwj.13 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:57:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=6dpvJ+HVLEP2h/JpqAa9Gjx5BCYvUW+ru5af9z2BIEQ=; b=EPVrd0r6QPUEKpeQry7ikHCxan7/nZ351TwsLFFq+KuHNAudxK/eUiX2EJKgdfQBCK wKvnv8P3cFeRYHxY4nb5xWjzuQr+lbGgtFUJVhh5H4M90QVq/f9kK1iZn0rWPdNdRlRw DdWanKoLQy12udKgydOkaHEaSpaM3l45BD1so= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=T3UvDaXuwcoKZ5sOXIUkMAdGTMbfOnA1hqEQDe2h5fDfEmGsWxmmF/Ah6vf4LKiRVb nqVZbk1pHrPGZ/YRyFLeNWIjirjQpl7zOKuH21DaL+VuJzVAcyZ8zJHueSUV1lWl7FkR Y5GuU/hs2Cjar5JYozAaXsox31IPAkRdtjvv4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.251.10 with SMTP id y10mr1473202ybh.123.1272563851980; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:57:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.182.6 with HTTP; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:57:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <66163.87589.qm@web36104.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <66163.87589.qm@web36104.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:57:31 -0700 Message-ID: From: pete wright To: "Joe's Morgue" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gaming 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: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:57:38 -0000 On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Joe's Morgue wrote: > Looking thru your manuals, I have not seen anything about gaming on a FreeBSD machine. > > Are there drivers for higher end graphic cards available? > nvidia provides a binary blob of their Unix driver for FreeBSD: http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_1.0-4365.html Regarding games in particular - it really depends on which game you are looking to play, and what it's requirements are. I have played HalfLife2 via wine emulation on FreeBSD using the nvidia driver for example. HTH -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org