Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 14:07:44 +1000 From: Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au> To: Mark Hittinger <bugs@freebsd.netcom.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Games on FreeBSD (was:Re: nVidia Cards /w FreeBSD (3D Acceleration)) Message-ID: <3AD52A10.7997F8EA@quake.com.au> References: <200104120134.UAA20957@freebsd.netcom.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> After people address their graphics cards, they will probably have to address > their cpu. I'm suspicious that a 1.x gz cpu may not be enough to do the job > right. It appears to me that the game manufacturers of these high end > games may have to begin (if they aren't already) considering using dual > cpu motherboards and some sort of OS with threads. > > I am saying that Win98/2k may be at that point where the high end game > developers are forced to leave Win* behind. We ought to make sure that > we can go along with that move. It strikes me that in such a resource > intensive and performance intensive environment we would be able to provide > a more stable situation than our competition :-) Very true, games like tribes2 really need a more powerfull O/S... I am currently having to play it under winblows, and its bad! I have a 1.1ghz t-bird and geforce256 ddr.. Yet still are a lot of performance problems mainly to do with windows handeling of memory (or not handeling)... Forget playing more than 3 games in a row without restarting... They might move to a more stable and better preforming O/S in the future, it will be a slowish proccess though, and the way things are currently linux will be what they move to... Thats still good for us, but it would be better if they moved totaly to FreeBSD :)) Ahh yes... I would love never to boot windows again... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3AD52A10.7997F8EA>