What about gaming on FreeBSD? - Page 2

tangram · #26 January 5th, 2009, 18:10

Yeah I also played competitively on a couple of clans but real life caught up eventually

Nowadays I just play it occasionally namely on 195.4.17.142:27960 which is http://enemy-territory.4players.de:1041/index.php game server and sometimes of Portuguese servers. I go by the name of tangram"FreeBSD~.

Also have installed RTCW and Quake3. On Linux I also used to play RTCW: Demo for a while and tried Tremulous which has a port I think.

**jsa@** · #27 January 6th, 2009, 13:46

http://www.vendetta-online.com/

The Linux version runs smooth in emulation. I've been meaning to write a how-to for a while. It's really about as simple as your linux-base port, linux-gtk2, and the linux-dri. Doesn't matter which linux kernel you emulate or base port version you choose.

If enough people like it, help me show the head of the company (John Bergman aka Incarnate of Guild Software) that there is enough demand for a FreeBSD native version.

nakal · #28 January 7th, 2009, 11:59

The best 3D-shooter I've ever played is Unreal Tournament (games/linux-ut).

I played it regularly, but it's not possible anymore.

I have bought an RV630-based card and am waiting for DRM since a couple of months already. Fortunatelly, Mr. Robert Noland (who is my personal hero at the moment, see link to his email on freebsd-stable@) announced that he works at it and is waiting for the docs from AMD at the moment.

hugo · #29 January 10th, 2009, 05:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by tangram

Yeah I also played competitively on a couple of clans but real life caught up eventually

Nowadays I just play it occasionally namely on 195.4.17.142:27960 which is http://enemy-territory.4players.de:1041/index.php game server and sometimes of Portuguese servers. I go by the name of tangram"FreeBSD~.

Also have installed RTCW and Quake3. On Linux I also used to play RTCW: Demo for a while and tried Tremulous which has a port I think.

Were you tangram GNU/Linux before? If that is so, I've seen you on the battlefields a couple of times

cajunman4life · #30 January 10th, 2009, 18:19

I tried warzone2100 the other day, and during a battle it crashes. I'm going to run it through gdb when I get a chance and try to figure out why... but otherwise, this thread has been full of good ideas of games to try.

ter2007 · #31 January 11th, 2009, 10:57

I want to try the original Falcon 4. (wine). I have my doubts but you never know it might work. If it ever does work under wine, it will almost certainly run better than it ever did under Winblows 98.

tangram · #32 January 11th, 2009, 22:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by hugo

Were you tangram GNU/Linux before? If that is so, I've seen you on the battlefields a couple of times

Yup

Those were the times I used Gentoo to play ET, nowadays it's tangram"FreeBSD~

You go by which nick?

ale · #33 April 10th, 2009, 09:14

This has just been committed
games/rigsofrods

Looking at the video here http://www.rigsofrods.com/ , it looks funny, for a while

tangram · #34 May 18th, 2009, 16:40

In an attempt to not this thread die... there's an HOWTO: Install and setup Wolfenstein Enemy Territory over at the Howtos & FAQs corner of the forum

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Nokobon · #35 May 18th, 2009, 17:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by tangram

In an attempt to not this thread die... there's an HOWTO: Install and setup Wolfenstein Enemy Territory over at the Howtos & FAQs corner of the forum

.

Soon I'm going to use PCBSD instead of openSUSE as desktop,
is there any difference between installing ET on standard FreeBSD and PCBSD?

tangram · #36 May 18th, 2009, 17:34

I don't use PC-BSD so I'm not 100% sure whether there is already an ET PBI. If there is one use it, else the posted HowTo should work just fine.

Nokobon · #37 May 18th, 2009, 18:02

Okay, I'll see.
And thank you for the HowTo!

tangram · #38 May 18th, 2009, 18:16

No problem

My pleasure.

Crestfallen · #39 May 28th, 2009, 17:27

World of Warcraft runs with 50+ FPS

AMD Athlon 3600
1.5 GB DDR2
Nvidia GeForce 5700FX

copypaiste · #40 June 23rd, 2009, 07:56

I used to run windows psx emulator in wine to play Metal Gear Solid. It preforms better than linux version of ePSXe from ports. Wine, dosbox and scummvm are enough to play some good ol' games like Nox, Rune, Scorched earth and various adventures ^_^v

**amdmi3@** · #41 July 21st, 2009, 19:35

(after adding 3 more games to ports)

If you ask me, FreeBSD is an excellent gaming platform. Emulators for many many gaming platforms, dosbox and wine (now also virtualbox), Linux binary support and of course extensive collection of native (f/oss) game ports which I and many other committers and contributors are trying best to keep up to date and expand even further.

There are some problems, of course, but these mostly originate from proprietary hardware/software, not FreeBSD itself, and I believe will be solved rather sooner than later.

Also see my games-related page on wiki:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/DmitryMarakasov/Games

ericturgeon · #42 July 22nd, 2009, 06:34

When I have time to play I shooters game like:
games/sauerbraten
games/cube
games/nexuiz
games/quake3
games/alienarena
games/linux-quake4

and sometime I play games/warsow.

drhowarddrfine · #43 July 22nd, 2009, 15:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eponasoft

The majority of Vista installations are in business environments;

Whenever anyone brings up games on BSD, and that they can't play Windows games or as many games as Windows, makes me say the same thing. The majority of BSD installations are in business environments and BSD is for professionals. If you want to play games, get a Playstation.

gr1ml0ck · #44 August 10th, 2009, 04:08

COUNTER STRIKE SOURCE + WINE * FREEBSD = FTW!!!!!!!!!!!

I've been a player of CS since beta and can't have a computer that wont play it in my house!!!

On an Asus M50sv in 64bit Windows I get 145 fps in max settings.
On an Asus M50sv in 64bit Linux I get 30 fps in max settings.
On an Asus M50sv in i386 FreeBSD CURRENT I get 140 fps using wine with everything maxed out and running in windowed mode 1440x900!!!!!

Audio works, I don't random crashes anymore. The whole wine project is slowly becoming polished enough to handle these windows games.

I would find it hard to truly enjoy any computer system which limits my abilities to have fun.. even if it does mean that I have uber stability and power.. I want both pies.. and that cake over there.. in fact.. just push the trolley this way and i'll eat the lot!!! ROFL!!

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