games/gaming

Skool Daze was a 1984 game on the ZX Spectrum I had completely forgotten about this game it was one of my favorites as a kid, you could fire a catapult and punch teachers, whats not to like ill have to set up retroarch and spectrum emulator and see if i can get it working...

I am really new to FreeBSD and I'm still discovering a lot. I was wondering if there is support for Minecraft on FreeBSD. I've read the handbook and haven't found anything about games.

I have a Microsoft SideWinder Precision Pro (USB), and on FreeBSD 14.1 it doesn't detect for FlightGear (pkg install flightgear). dmesg: ugen0.7: <Microsoft Microsoft SideWinder Precision Pro (USB)> at usbus0 usbhid3 on uhub1 usbhid3: <Microsoft Microsoft SideWinder Precision Pro (USB), class...

Hello all, I have been trying to play Quake 2 on my machine. My attempt requires me to compile a package, so I tried. However, I got some strange errors. I would just brush it of, however, this is a continuing problem. I first tried a PORTS package, and I got the same. Can someone help me with this?

When I installed Steam, I installed some games, yet none of them would open. Is this an established problem? Is there a fix? I'll post any details. Here is a video of the incident:

Hey all, I just installed, and I wanted to play RuneScape. I know Runelite got deprecated by Jagex. How could I play the official client, or another one on BSD?

Hello all, I'm very new to FreeBSD and would appreciate a little assistance on what I'm doing wrong here. I work on a game (https://github.com/itgmania/itgmania) which is very stable and well tested under Linux - I'm very familiar with getting it built on different Linux distributions. I'm...

The last post on the Second Life client in this forum dates back in 2020, so there may be none, but if there is, this is a call for test. Download the port tarball from https://oikumene.que.ne.jp/FreeBSD/ Extract the tarball under ${PORTSDIR}/games. There should be games/secondlifeviewer...

I can't tell if it's a FreeBSD or Wayland related issue: FlightGear 3.19 from ports sway 1.9 from ports FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE, fresh install. Flightgear/js_demo can't find the Joystick: sudo dmesg | grep Joystick hgame0: <Thrustmaster T.Flight Hotas X Joystick> on hidbus1 This is probably a...

Hello! I've just tried to start Minecraft recently and it can't start with the following output: Bootstrap (v5) Current time is Apr 24, 2024 10:36:41 PM System.getProperty('os.name') == 'Linux' System.getProperty('os.version') == '14.0-RELEASE' System.getProperty('os.arch') == 'amd64'...

[Mod: Split off from https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/duke-numem-on-freebsd.92763/] I lost soo much of my lifetime playing this back in the days... Thanks!

Duke Nukem install on Freebsd using the eduke32 package Come get some Duke Nukem install instructions on github https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/cerberus/blob/master/freebsd/eduke32.org

Hi. I´m trying execute the veteran 'heretic' game on my FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE with the sound output (/dev/dsp) disabled, but i can´t find a way (if there is). Any help very appreciated. Thanks.

I just upgraded to 14.0 Release. I did a new install on my main system. I installed Suyimazu but the only item in the library was Mizutamari and the launch option doesn't work in Suyimazu. So I opened the Suyimazu directory and set Mizutamari to executable and launch the installer. After...

Unreal Tournament 3 works under Wine Proton 8.0 with FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE-p4/5. My main issue is that there are many times where the frame rate will drop to 20 or under when it shouldn't considering my hardware. I have a Ryzen 5 3400G paired with an Nvidia GTX 1050. My launcher is as follows:

I've started playing chess recently, and had this idea about creating a computerised chess board consisting of a square touch screen display with chess pieces containing some sort of electronic ID sort that moves could be automatically recorded. I have no idea if such a concept is feasible, if...

Hi! I've been trying to change the sound output to my headsets. Everything I did to try to achieve this goal ends in sound on laptop speakers. Changing the device in pulse audio plugin does nothing to this game. Debugging this game I found that it uses OpenAL and so I did configure a ~/.openalrc...

I'm really wanting to get Cities: Skylines to work but whenever I attempt to launch it, it acts like it's going to then the button on Steam reset back to "Play" and doesn't launch. I can, however, play games like HL 2, HL, Gary's Mod, and Borderlands 2; all through the linux-steam-utils. None of...

I'm trying to get Unreal Tournament running on my FreeBSD 13.2-p4 system. I have an Nvidia GTX 1050 with an AMD Ryzen 5 3400G. I also have the Linux Nvidia libs installed as well. I've got Linuxulator setup. I'm trying to run version 469d without success, so far. I'm stuck at getting ALAudio...

With Cyberpunk 2077 now rated as working well on Mac OS (via Game Porting Tool Kit harnessing Wine 7.7) and Linux via Proton, has anyone tried or managed to run Cyberpunk 2077 on a FreeBSD host, via Wine-Proton or some other implementation? If not, I'd be tempted to cobble together a machine to...