how to play Torchlight II in freebsd14.2 without steam ?

Since steam in FreeBSD has its flaws, you could generally try to play games without steam.
I think that you could play many games that way, but I haven't tried that until now, so it is only theoretical.
 
SDK Chan said:
Since steam in FreeBSD has its flaws, you could generally try to play games without steam.
I think that you could play many games that way, but I haven't tried that until now, so it is only theoretical.
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some people told me the steam will steal your data . so i don't want to play game with steam.
please let me know how to play steam game without steam in freebsd14.2? thanks.
 
fff2024g said:
some people told me the steam will steal your data . so i don't want to play game with steam.
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It never happened to me that steam stole my data, but steam has one big problem what GOG for example doesn't.
If a game vanishes from their servers you cannot play it anymore.
In steam you don't buy a game, you buy a license basically allowing you to play the game.
Empress to some extend fighting Denuvo by cracking their games, tried to reach out and making it clear to other people that they don't own games anymore, and it isn't even desired in the first place regarding PC games.
Console games are a different story, but you own a console game on a storage device, if you buy them for the same price.
Even if the console dies, you can dump the game, and play it on emulators.
 
SDK Chan said:
If a game vanishes from their servers you cannot play it anymore.
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On the other hand Steam often keeps old games working. Games that aren't supported anymore because the software developer that created them pulled the plug.
 
I can write up some FreeBSD notes with GOG and Wine in the near future! I think the latest version on GOG is setup_torchlight_2_1.25.9.5b_(23102).exe

Years ago I ran it through Wine on Linux because of some dependency thing with the native Linux version. Iirc TL2 has OpenGL, but in any case it had good perf highest settings no problem back then.
 
Espionage724 said:
I can write up some FreeBSD notes with GOG and Wine in the near future! I think the latest version on GOG is setup_torchlight_2_1.25.9.5b_(23102).exe

Years ago I ran it through Wine on Linux because of some dependency thing with the native Linux version. Iirc TL2 has OpenGL, but in any case it had good perf highest settings no problem back then.
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DEar espionage724:
i have know the torchligt2 have steam linux version. so why we need use wine ?
can we run this game with binary code directly in freebsd ?, no steam or gog.thanks
 
fff2024g said:
DEar espionage724:
i have know the torchligt2 have steam linux version. so why we need use wine ?
can we run this game with binary code directly in freebsd ?, no steam or gog.thanks
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Linux and macOS binaries are other options, but I'm not sure how to run it through Linuxulator. As long as Linuxulator supports OpenGL and sound library stuff for games it sounds like Linux TL2 would work.

I'm only aware of TL2 on Steam and GOG, so if you own it on Steam you'd have to go through Steam client and however it's ran (Wine or Linuxulator), or download it through SteamCMD. GOG has separate Windows/macOS/Linux binaries, with the Linux version being a .sh.

I already have Wine for other games so TL2 is easy to drop in with that :p

Edit: TL2 doesn't work for me in Wine surprisingly! GOG version installs, but launching TL2 just has it crash after the desktop loading logo.
 
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