What do you think about a "SteamBSD" machine ?

Steam's mainly useful to me for PCVR, and I'm thinking that might have more latency doing Proton/Wine -> Linuxlator -> FreeBSD

Otherwise if a game doesn't need Steam DRM or Proton-specific fixes, it's more fun to run SteamCMD and games through FreeBSD Wine :cool:
 
There's no reason not to make a SteamBSD machine. I have a lot of machines that run Steam and even the R1 Alienware Steam Machine. And it can play a large amount of my library. There are some that don't work however. 😁 Just post pictures when it's done. In my experience Nvidia and Radeon as well as Intel iGPU work well with Steam on FreeBSD. And both X11 and Wayland work well in Steam gaming on FreeBSD.
 
Espionage724 said:
Steam's mainly useful to me for PCVR, and I'm thinking that might have more latency doing Proton/Wine -> Linuxlator -> FreeBSD

Otherwise if a game doesn't need Steam DRM or Proton-specific fixes, it's more fun to run SteamCMD and games through FreeBSD Wine :cool:
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you gave me a great idea : "Don't fix the Linuxulator missing / broken syscalls if the game runs correctly with Wine. Try to run it with Wine and not with Steam Client"
 
LibreQuest said:
There's no reason not to make a SteamBSD machine. I have a lot of machines that run Steam and even the R1 Alienware Steam Machine. And it can play a large amount of my library. There are some that don't work however. 😁 Just post pictures when it's done. In my experience Nvidia and Radeon as well as Intel iGPU work well with Steam on FreeBSD. And both X11 and Wayland work well in Steam gaming on FreeBSD.
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Come on. Why Linux always comes first and FreeBSD should be the second choice when we talk about multimedia / video games ? Our is a nice OS,it should not be second to anyone in / for something.
 
ZioMario said:
Come on. Why Linux always comes first and FreeBSD should be the second choice when we talk about multimedia / video games ? Our is a nice OS,it should not be second to anyone in / for something.
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I would agree, other than the lack of some kernel modules for digital rights management things work very well in gaming. And for multimedia it's great as well. I think Valve should just find a way to work some FreeBSD into their software. 😁

I have noticed that some games are working with the latest version of LSU that were not previously working. So, not sure why they're working now. But it's cool that they are.
 
my plans are to create a non-commercial fund like Mozzila, for which tasks:
1. There is code that is free, but to port paid ones to FreeBSD, for example BinaryNinja, QBlade ...
2. To agree on the development of drivers on BSD, that is, so that everything is legally formalized about the documentation, and this includes video cards and other drivers, it is not necessary to have code in the ports, the main thing is that there is a package
3. Also, to compile ports on the server, the user installs the BSD version, and what package should I compile the port
4. ports, pkgsrc, ravenports

I can't do it myself, maybe someone is interested, let's unite for this idea, and then we will agree with Steam about the games ...
 
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