Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 20:16:56 +0200 From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> To: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> Cc: Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Most BSD-like and games-friendly Linux? Message-ID: <20010727201656.B65603@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107271000440.1488-100000@heorot.1nova.com>; from hamellr@heorot.1nova.com on Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 10:01:38AM -0700 References: <200107271554.f6RFslq37181@dungeon.home> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107271000440.1488-100000@heorot.1nova.com>
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On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 10:01:38AM -0700, Rick Hamell wrote: > > > 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. > > That strikes me as weird. The Loki guys have stated in the forums > many times that most their games work BETTER under FreeBSD's Linux > compatibility mode then they do under Linux. > Yes, but it can be hard to get hardware acceleration going on FreeBSD. Well, it can be done of course, but it involves more than the usual 'make install' ;-), and DRI is still in development actually. The fine thing though is: once it works, it simply works. And if it breaks, there are useful clues in logfiles to find the problem. When I was playing the Deus Ex demo in Windows 98, it suddenly crashed and it didn't want to start anymore. So then I'm supposed to reinstall the demo, and if that doesn't work, reinstall DirectX, and/or the newest video driver, etc. I didn't even consider it but decided to wait for the Linux version. I can't have fun knowing that things can unexpectedly break and that I only can do wild guesses in repairing it. Karel. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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