Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 03:21:34 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd for windows PC games Message-ID: <CCA31517-5741-4991-A3E2-BFAA0DB8DD0E@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <001401c5bcfa$443e32e0$0c64a8c0@opteron> References: <20050919073655.64846.qmail@web50004.mail.yahoo.com> <001401c5bcfa$443e32e0$0c64a8c0@opteron>
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On Sep 19, 2005, at 1:43 AM, K Anderson wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gloryjoy Ga-ang" <gloryjoyg@yahoo.com>
> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 12:36 AM
> Subject: freebsd for windows PC games
>
>
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I am presently using windows XP as my OS using a LAN
>> and I want to switch to Freebsd, but I have a few
>> questions regarding the compatibility of the OS with
>> windows PC games? Can I still run those games even if
>> I am using the freebsd OS? If not, are there any more
>> alternatives to run those PC games, and can those
>> games run smoothly? (especially the multiplayer games)..
>>
>>
> No. Well not really no, but something close to it.
> There's a port called wine that allows you to run a limited set of
> Windows
> applications. There is also a subscription based version of wine
> that meets
> with some success in running Windows applications.
>
> The next thing would be vmware. That would allow you to have FreeBSD
> installed then install a secondary OS within vmware and thus
> Windows runs
> from that.
>
> There were a couple other bits of software just previously
> mentioned either
> this week or the previous week, you could go through the archives
> of this
> list.
Unless you use something like Cedega that's available through
<http://transgaming.org/>, playing Windows games on any Unix OS is
impossible anymore since the majority of Windows games no longer use
straight OpenGL libraries (which can be run through Wine easily, like
HL-1), but OpenGL through DirectX wrappers which are incompatible
with Wine unless you have Cedega.
-Garrett
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