Minecraft?

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Sun Nov 28 19:02:41 UTC 2010


On 11/28/10 16:27, Pieter de Goeje wrote:
> On Sunday 28 November 2010 15:42:04 Ivan Voras wrote:
>> On 28 November 2010 15:17, Pieter de Goeje<pieter at degoeje.nl>  wrote:
>>> On Sunday 28 November 2010 14:24:36 Ivan Voras wrote:
>>>> I don't think this trick will work with ATI cards? I did try some
>>>> Linux 3d app a while ago and IIRC it crashed X.
>>>
>>> In that case probably the only way to get it working properly is porting
>>> jinput and lwjgl to FreeBSD. These libraries are stored in .minecraft/bin
>>> btw.
>>
>> Well, given infinite time... :)
> Yeah my thoughts exactly.
>
>>
>>> Or you could try some VM with working OpenGL passthrough.
>>
>> There are no such things for FreeBSD.
> Yes there is :D
> I just tried it on FreeBSD 9-CURRENT amd64. These steps should work:
> 1) Create a VirtualBox VM with a Windows XP guest.
> 2) Enable 3D acceleration in the VirtualBox settings under "Display ->  Video"
> (I also allocated 32MB to the video card)
> 3) Install the VirtualBox guest additions.
> 4) Disable mouse integration
> 5) Install java 6&  enjoy minecraft !
>
> Performance seems satisfactory. Hardware: Phenom II X4 3Ghz and a nVidia
> 460GTX.

No, it might again be the problem with Radeon but I've tried this before 
and confirmed again now: 3D in VirtualBox doesn't work (for me).

Specifically for VirtualBox, the error is this:

http://ivoras.net/stuff/ss2.png






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