Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS
5 hours ago
- The Nebula driver for Nvidia GPUs currently only supports Turing and Ampere architectures, with no blobs for Lovelace or newer cards like the RTX 5090.
- A user reports that the GTX 2060 runs well at 2560x1440 resolution with refresh rates of 60/120/144 Hz, and that DisplayPort support is ready but not yet released.
- DisplayPort offers advantages such as higher refresh rates and easier multi-monitor setups, while HDMI can be inconvenient for dual-booting and VR headsets.
- The driver uses a 24-bit per pixel framebuffer (XRGB) with 8-bit alignment, and 32-bit color (10-bit per channel) is not yet supported by the app_server.
- Recommended affordable used Nvidia GPUs for Haiku include the GTX 1650, GTX 1660, and RTX 2060, while the GTX 1060 is too old.
- The driver is compiled from the nillerusr source engine, and there is optimism about Haiku becoming a viable desktop OS.