Re: Gaming

2010-04-30 Thread Mikle Krutov
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 09:46:15PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: Yes probably, but for now I can play urban terror as well. Which features are missing ? -- Demelier David First, it's shaders support. I've used to play toribash a lot, and it requires OpenGL 1.3 which mesa does support, but it

Re: Gaming

2010-04-30 Thread Mikle Krutov
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:41:33AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: I agree. There's a wiki entry detailing the process: http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine#head-6963d527c173e57b1567e881305b544d33435b6d There are a few problems with the network interfaces on the 32-64 bit bridge; which will

Re: Gaming

2010-04-30 Thread George Liaskos
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:54 PM, David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:10:20AM -0700, Joe's Morgue wrote: Looking thru your manuals, I have not seen anything about gaming on a FreeBSD machine. ? You are not reading the manual correctly. Then *entire* manual is the

Re: Gaming

2010-04-29 Thread David Kelly
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:10:20AM -0700, Joe's Morgue wrote: Looking thru your manuals, I have not seen anything about gaming on a FreeBSD machine. ? You are not reading the manual correctly. Then *entire* manual is the game. :-) -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net

Re: Gaming

2010-04-29 Thread pete wright
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Joe's Morgue joes_mor...@yahoo.com wrote: Looking thru your manuals, I have not seen anything about gaming on a FreeBSD machine. Are there drivers for higher end graphic cards available? nvidia provides a binary blob of their Unix driver for FreeBSD:

Re: Gaming

2010-04-29 Thread pete wright
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:57 AM, pete wright nomadlo...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Joe's Morgue joes_mor...@yahoo.com wrote: Looking thru your manuals, I have not seen anything about gaming on a FreeBSD machine. Are there drivers for higher end graphic cards

Re: Gaming

2010-04-29 Thread Mikle Krutov
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:10:20AM -0700, Joe's Morgue wrote: Are there drivers for higher end graphic cards available? If it is nvidia: yes, proprietary and pretty good. If it is ATI, only opensource xf86-video-ati, that are better than fglrx for work, not for games (e.g. less features, but

Re: Gaming

2010-04-29 Thread Balázs Mátéffy
Hi, I lolled on the comment from David Kelly :D. By the way some time in the past I managed to use Counter-Stike 1.6 on wine with approx 20fps, and without sound :). On linux there is cedega, but cedega won't be ported to FreeBSD there was an old abandoned project to do it, but it died ;\. Your

Re: Gaming

2010-04-29 Thread Chip Camden
On Apr 29 2010 12:54, David Kelly wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:10:20AM -0700, Joe's Morgue wrote: Looking thru your manuals, I have not seen anything about gaming on a FreeBSD machine. ? You are not reading the manual correctly. Then *entire* manual is the game. :-) -- You are

Re: Gaming

2010-04-29 Thread Mikle Krutov
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 08:16:27PM +0200, Balázs Mátéffy wrote: On linux there is cedega, but cedega won't be ported to FreeBSD there was an old abandoned project to do it, but it died ;\. Cedega is just polished wine with changed default settings for some games. E.g. it's based on wine

Re: Gaming

2010-04-29 Thread Mikle Krutov
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 09:39:58PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: I don't agree, if compile mesa, gl, and ati with WITHOUT_NOUVEAU defined you will be able to play various games using real hardware acceleration ;-) -- Wbr, Krutov Mikle ___ --

Re: Gaming

2010-04-29 Thread Nerius Landys
Some games run natively on FreeBSD with no emulation. For example Urban Terror is a first person shooter that fits this category, and it's very popular. /usr/ports/games/iourbanterror and it requires hardware 3D acceleration (nVidia drivers would work well).

Re: Gaming

2010-04-29 Thread David DEMELIER
2010/4/29 Mikle Krutov nekoexmach...@gmail.com: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:10:20AM -0700, Joe's Morgue wrote: Are there drivers for higher end graphic cards available? If it is nvidia: yes, proprietary and pretty good. If it is ATI, only opensource xf86-video-ati, that are better than fglrx

Re: Gaming

2010-04-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:54:34PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:10:20AM -0700, Joe's Morgue wrote: Looking thru your manuals, I have not seen anything about gaming on a FreeBSD machine. ? You are not reading the manual correctly. Then *entire* manual is the game.

Re: Gaming

2010-04-29 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:20:28PM +0400, Mikle Krutov wrote: [...] I've played on my nvidia workstation (8400gs) Actually, the only tricky thing about games - installing wine on amd64, everything other works just as good as it does in linux. I agree. There's a wiki entry detailing the

Re: GAMING

2005-11-07 Thread Antoine Solomon
I Remember I was on 5.3 and installed ut2004 successfully from dvd. worked and ran extremely fast. There was some howto on the web for doing it but I can't find it on google anymore. On 11/6/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/6/05, Antoine Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey is

Re: GAMING

2005-11-06 Thread Stepan Rakhimov
Yesterday, I spent 4 hours playing UT2004. And it seemed to run faster than on Windows. At least it felt much cooler :-) Please give me a link to UT2004 howto. i tried to find it but without success. Stepan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: GAMING

2005-11-06 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/6/05, Stepan Rakhimov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday, I spent 4 hours playing UT2004. And it seemed to run faster than on Windows. At least it felt much cooler :-) Please give me a link to UT2004 howto. i tried to find it but without success. Stepan

Re: GAMING

2005-11-06 Thread Dimitar Vasilev
2005/11/6, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/6/05, Stepan Rakhimov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday, I spent 4 hours playing UT2004. And it seemed to run faster than on Windows. At least it felt much cooler :-) Please give me a link to UT2004 howto. i tried to find it but

Re: GAMING

2005-11-06 Thread Antoine Solomon
Hey is there any port of the full game? On 11/6/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/6/05, Stepan Rakhimov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday, I spent 4 hours playing UT2004. And it seemed to run faster than on Windows. At least it felt much cooler :-) Please give me a

Re: GAMING

2005-11-06 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/6/05, Antoine Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey is there any port of the full game? Not in the ports tree and not that I know of. I'm sure it's not a problem to run it. Copy protection will be an obstacle, but if you own the game you'll be fully justified in searching for a crack and

Re: GAMING

2005-11-06 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/7/05, Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 04:39:53PM +, Antoine Solomon wrote: On 11/6/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/6/05, Stepan Rakhimov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday, I spent 4 hours playing UT2004. And it seemed

Re: GAMING

2005-11-05 Thread jason henson
rick wrote: how is freebsd for gaming needs ive used linux and windows for years.??? thanks rick ___ If you used linux, you should not have a problem. Video card drivers would be your limiting point, I would suggest you use nvidia because of

Re: GAMING

2005-11-05 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/5/05, jason henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rick wrote: how is freebsd for gaming needs ive used linux and windows for years.??? If you used linux, you should not have a problem. Video card drivers would be your limiting point, I would suggest you use nvidia because of it. Well, to

Re: GAMING

2005-11-05 Thread Peter Clutton
rick wrote: how is freebsd for gaming needs ive used linux and windows for years.??? Andrew wrote: *BSD is still a few years (months?) off from entering the desktop (and gaming) market, but it will, and when it does, all its strengths will shine. Commercially speaking, if you want to