Gaming

pete wright nomadlogic at gmail.com
Thu Apr 29 17:57:38 UTC 2010


On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Joe's Morgue <joes_morgue at 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:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_1.0-4365.html

Regarding games in particular - it really depends on which game you
are looking to play, and what it's requirements are.  I have played
HalfLife2 via wine emulation on FreeBSD using the nvidia driver for
example.

HTH
-pete

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pete wright
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