On Sep 19, 2005, at 1:43 AM, K Anderson wrote:
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From: "Gloryjoy Ga-ang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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