Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 01:54:47 +1000 From: Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au> To: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, mckay@thehub.com.au Subject: Re: Most BSD-like and games-friendly Linux? Message-ID: <200107271554.f6RFslq37181@dungeon.home> In-Reply-To: <20010727161921.A64682@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> from "Karel J. Bosschaart" at "Fri, 27 Jul 2001 16:19:21 %2B0200" References: <200107271328.f6RDScq34621@dungeon.home> <20010727161921.A64682@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl>
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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
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