Any good OpenGL games?

[Alastair G. Hogge]

On Sunday 05 February 2006 17:25, Xn Nooby wrote:
> On 2/4/06, Alastair G. Hogge <agh at tpg.com.au> wrote:
> > On Sunday 05 February 2006 12:06, Xn Nooby wrote:
> > > I have a P4 2Ghz with an nVidia card, so I installed the nVidia driver.
> > > I'm currently installing 'linux-enemyterritory' which I think will
[snip]
> > I also have wine on my system, is it difficult to get windows opengl
> > games
> >
> > > to run?
> >
> > OpenGL MS-Windows games under Wine seem to work ok.
> > DirectX games are a little slow in my opinion.
>
> Have you tried any I might have heard of?
I used to play Quake2, RtCW and something thru Wine but that was along time 
ago.

> Maybe Silent Assassin or City of 
> Heroes? (I'm not sure if they are OpenGL). 
Don't know these games sorry. But winehq has a listing on City of Heroes:
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=2141

> I've only used wine for zip, 
> 7zip, winrar, freeagent, and some other utilty apps.  I wonder if wine will
> detect that I later installed the nvidia OpenGL driver?
Wine will direct OpenGL call to your OpenGL installation.

> > I've heard of cedega on linux, but would rather roll my own free
> >
> > > solution if possible (or copy someone elses method).
> > >
> > > Playing "Call of Duty" would be ideal, or maybe Return to Castle
> > > Wolfenstein.
> >
> > RtCW under Wine runs fines...most id games do I think. Also there is
> > Linux binary of RtCW which is probably a better method then Wine.
>
> Is this one a FreeBSD native RTCW?
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/games/rtcw
It's FreeBSD port of the linux version.

> I lost my old Window pk3 file, but it looks they are free now:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/games/rtcw-paks/
No you still need the original paks. This port will just install them into the 
right places...

> I will try it when Enemy Territory finishes.  It's taken 5 hours to
> download ET, whoever is hosting 250MB file isnt giving up much bandwidth. 
> But its free, so I'm not complaining. Much, lol.
>
> thanks!
No worries