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Date:      Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:41:33 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        repcsike@gmail.com
Cc:        Mikle Krutov <nekoexmachina@gmail.com>, FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Gaming
Message-ID:  <20100429234133.GA67992@osiris.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <20100429192028.GB14923@takino.homeftp.org>
References:  <66163.87589.qm@web36104.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <u2r57d710001004291057jd9458cf7vb6aa5622272e8d51@mail.gmail.com> <s2i57d710001004291058g57f6b474tcf386dd29aa3263a@mail.gmail.com> <y2lc4b701071004291116vd3e57f11geb3f2c725cbae6cc@mail.gmail.com> <20100429192028.GB14923@takino.homeftp.org>

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On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:20:28PM +0400, Mikle Krutov wrote:

[...]
> I've played on my nvidia workstation (8400gs) Actually, the only 
> tricky thing about games - installing wine on amd64, everything other 
>  works just as good as it does in linux.

I agree. There's a wiki entry detailing the process:

    http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine#head-6963d527c173e57b1567e881305b544d33435b6d

There are a few problems with the network interfaces on the 32-64 bit
bridge; which will intefere with some network related games (eg: EVE
Online), but on the whole the experience is very positive.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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                "If everything's under control, you're going too slow"
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