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Official FreeBSD nVidia Drivers

Posted by michael on from the purty-pictures dept.

Hugh writes "The FreeBSD NVIDIA Driver Initiative has announced that nVidia itself will be releasing a FreeBSD driver for its line of cards. This is excellent news for people who prefer to Quake on the best OS available."

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  1. Re:Cool! by questionlp · · Score: 4, Informative
    Yes it can... The game will run using the Linux Compatibility Layer. For more information, check out this page. Looking at the end of the page, you will find the following paragraph:
    The Linux version will run under FreeBSD but both the Linux and FreeBSD versions require hardware graphics acceleration. The only supported graphics acceleration is 3dfx though others may work.
    Also check out the different Q3 ports available within the FreeBSD ports collection under the games/ section. Wanna check? Go to freshports.org/games or go to their search page and search for "q3".
  2. Re:What's the Point? by diamondc · · Score: 2, Informative

    Because some people like to multitask.. run a stable web, mail, database, etc server AND play some games and only have one computer. Most modern *BSD distributions are easy to use and load sound modules, video drivers isnt as hard as you think...

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  3. Re:Dedicated Game Servers by Lazaru5 · · Score: 3, Informative

    All the Linux dedicated servers run fine on BSD. On FreeBSD: /usr/ports/games/halflifeserver /usr/ports/games/hl-server* (includes CS, DOD, etc) /usr/ports/games/q3server /usr/ports/games/q3server-* (includes RA, etc) /usr/ports/games/utserver /usr/ports/games/bnetd (Disabled, but you can find the source on your own and remove the IGNORE macro from the Makefil) /usr/ports/games/mythserver

    And if there's not a Port (remember, Ports aren't necessarily "ports", but are just a way to easily install an application, be it from source - with or without patches - or binary) you can likely still install it following whatever directions are included.

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  4. Re:What about OpenBSD? by Joakim+A · · Score: 2, Informative

    U can use the VESA driver to run OBSD on a Geforce2Go. Works nice even if you don't get all the fancy stuff. Probably will take a while to port to OBSD, if ever, since FBSD has a different licensing scheme.