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).. __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd for windows PC games
- Original Message - 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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd for windows PC games
On Sep 19, 2005, at 1:43 AM, K Anderson wrote: - Original Message - 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
freebsd for windows PC games
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).. There are linux ports of games available in the ports which you can often run if you have the full pc version cd. Just follow the instructions of the port to copy the right files in and you can play (FreeBSD has a linux emulator). On the question of running them smoothly , as long as you have the hardware for it, you will just need to install an up to dat FreeBSD driver for you graphics card. Other than that, shouldn't be any slower than your used to. If you go the linux port direction, it is said that often these apps run faster than on linux itself. And talking about multiplyer games, there are some cool ports for running servers like quake etc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
