Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:39:22 +0000 From: Hugo Silva <hugo@barafranca.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help! Message-ID: <45F6A98A.9070706@barafranca.com> In-Reply-To: <9948.82.93.23.199.1173756547.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> References: <45F541F3.5040309@planet.nl> <20070312141910.GA27605@xs2.xs4all.nl> <45F56665.7060006@planet.nl> <45F56F10.1090401@netscape.net> <45F5AB1E.9030807@planet.nl> <45F5BAEF.5050506@netscape.net> <45F5C0B0.3030406@planet.nl> <9948.82.93.23.199.1173756547.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl>
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In my experience, games on FreeBSD are always slow, my hardware isn't very > fast (900MHz, 384MB RAM,Geforce FX5200) but on windows 2000 I'm able to > play even fairly recent games (Such as the punisher, civ4). > > On FreeBSD, anything with more graphics than rogue will be anything from > slow to unplayable, even though FreeBSD outperforms windows in almost > every other way... > > Conclusion: > Use windows for games, FreeBSD for serious stuff ... > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I have to disagree. Been playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein[: Enemy Territory] and NeverWinter Nights 1 for years - I surely wouldn't say they're "anything from slow to unplayable": NWN runs fine at max resolution, and I have constant 142FPS (they're capped @ 142) on ET, at 1280x1024. Hugo
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