Thanks a lot!!!
Mario Hoerich
spambox at MHoerich.de
Sun Sep 11 07:24:22 PDT 2005
# Gregory Nou:
[ Playing with FBSD ]
> I ran Neverwinter Nights, Enemy Territory and UT2004 with great success.
There are two issues with FreeBSD here (I've found out the
hard way):
1) There is no nVidia-driver for amd64 and --unless nVidia changes
their mind-- there won't ever be one.
2) The i386-nVidia-driver (tested 6113, 7667, 7676) seems to have
a major problem with Athlon64 on socket 939. Just google for
| NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the AMD CPU and OS kernel
| NVRM: kernel upgrade recommended.
Apparently, the driver is unable to use either NVAgp or native
AGP. You'll still be able to use twin-screens and hardware
accelleration, albeit at a very limited transfer bandwidth to
the GPU. Some people seem lucky enough and are still able to
play, but I know that _for me_ UT2004 runs *way* too slow since
updating CPU+Mainboard. (Ran perfectly fine before).
In short: if your PCs have a combination of nVidia-GPU and
Athlon64/939-CPU, FreeBSD is not a good choice atm. :(
HTH
Mario
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