What about gaming on FreeBSD?

wrong abi,

usr/local/share/wine/pkg32.sh install wine mesa-dri
pkg -o ABI_FILE=/usr/lib32/libc.so.7 -o INSTALL_AS_USER=true -o RUN_SCRIPTS=false --rootdir /home/x/.i386-wine-pkg install wine mesa-dri
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.conf: 100% 179 B 0.2kB/s 00:01
Fetching data.pkg: 100% 10 MiB 5.4MB/s 00:02
Processing entries: 0%
pkg: wrong architecture: FreeBSD:15:amd64 instead of FreeBSD:15:i386
pkg: repository FreeBSD contains packages with wrong ABI: FreeBSD:15:amd64
 
Corwynt said:
I saw some project called "steam bottler" which sticks steam in a jail. This sounds a lot better for privacy because at least steam would be running in jail so there'd be some kind of security separation.
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Did you infer all of this from the name? As much as I dislike that script, there never were such claims.

Corwynt said:
I copied the .i386-wine directory I had installed in a 14.3 jail where I did get a game working in WINE, so it still should have run.
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So you copied i386 wine or wine-devel setup and expected it to work with amd64 wine-proton. You do you.
 
Alain De Vos said:
wrong abi,

usr/local/share/wine/pkg32.sh install wine mesa-dri
pkg -o ABI_FILE=/usr/lib32/libc.so.7 -o INSTALL_AS_USER=true -o RUN_SCRIPTS=false --rootdir /home/x/.i386-wine-pkg install wine mesa-dri
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.conf: 100% 179 B 0.2kB/s 00:01
Fetching data.pkg: 100% 10 MiB 5.4MB/s 00:02
Processing entries: 0%
pkg: wrong architecture: FreeBSD:15:amd64 instead of FreeBSD:15:i386
pkg: repository FreeBSD contains packages with wrong ABI: FreeBSD:15:amd64
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The workaround fix was only merged for wine-devel. So you could install wine-devel.
Then run /usr/local/share/wine/pkg32.sh --old install wine mesa-dri
Then install wine back.
 
Alain De Vos said:
Guild Wars 2: A popular MMORPG that is reported to run well on FreeBSD using Wine and DXVK (DirectX-to-Vulkan translation).
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How would I go about getting DXVK compiled and working with WINE on FreeBSD?
On Linux it's installed with winetricks. On FreeBSD, I'm not so sure.
 
monwarez said:
Portal 2 run with linuxulator, with one of the compat option.
For Skyrim, you need to have the ncpu patch from either https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/7339 or https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/5213 .
If you can run the games outside of steam, then using wine-devel should work without patching since the related patched got merged since a while.
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It appears the ncpu patch made it in early October 2025 so it's in there from 10.17 onwards. (Both patches)
 
Corwynt said:
How would I go about getting DXVK compiled and working with WINE on FreeBSD?
On Linux it's installed with winetricks. On FreeBSD, I'm not so sure.
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DXVK has pre-compiled DLLs; they drop-in any OS's Wine prefix and Windows.

I'm used to doing it the hard way :p

With the latest tar.gz in Downloads folder (from Releases), I do this for a 32-bit DX9 game in new WoW64:
Code: 
rm -Rf '/tmp/dxvk-'* && tar -xvzf ~/'Downloads/dxvk-'*'.tar.gz' -C '/tmp' && mv -fv '/tmp/dxvk-'*'/x32/d3d9.dll' ~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5/drive_c/windows/syswow64' && rm -Rf '/tmp/dxvk-'*

With DLL override:
Code: 
WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/World of Warcraft 3.3.5' wine REG ADD 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\DllOverrides' /v 'd3d9' /t 'REG_SZ' /d 'native' /f

Or latest master zip for a 64-bit DX11 game (DX10+ needs DXGI too):
Code: 
rm -Rf '/tmp/dxvk-master' && unzip ~/'Downloads/dxvk-master-'*'.zip' -d '/tmp/dxvk-master' && mv -fv '/tmp/dxvk-master/x64/d3d11.dll' '/tmp/dxvk-master/x64/dxgi.dll' ~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2/drive_c/windows/system32'

With DLL overrides (+ DXGI)
Code: 
WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2' wine REG ADD 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\DllOverrides' /v 'd3d11' /t 'REG_SZ' /d 'native' /f && WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Guild Wars 2' wine REG ADD 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\DllOverrides' /v 'dxgi' /t 'REG_SZ' /d 'native' /f

That format works various Linux and FreeBSD as-is!
 
Here's a breakdown of what I'm running:
  • 8th gen. Intel Laptop with Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2)
  • Host running FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE
    • Running my X session on host and setting: xhost +local: to allow the jail
    • devfs.rules with various paths unhide'd: mixer*, dsp*, dri, dri/*, drm, drm/*, pci
  • Gaming jail running FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p6
    • wine-devel 11.0.r4
    • wine prefix is 'amd64' so uses the libs from .i386-wine
    • Installed mesa-dri and vulkan-loaders
    • winetricks -q corefonts dxvk
    • winetricks -q renderer=vulkan
I find my graphics are weird and jumpy and the animations are not smooth.
If I go back to the wine 10.15 jail with 'gl' rendering (not dxvk), the game works fine.

If I try vulkan with wine-devel 10.15, I get:

warn: DXVK: No adapters found. Please check your device filter settings
warn: and Vulkan drivers. A Vulkan 1.3 capabie setup is required.

I have vulkan-loader and vulkan-tools both v1.4.327 installed and vkcube runs perfectly fine in the jail.
So I'm kinda stumped here. My device should support Vulkan but 10.15 doesn't work right?
 
Corwynt said:
I find my graphics are weird and jumpy and the animations are not smooth.
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I noticed that in Guild Wars 2 with Vsync enabled, but there was also something with Intel DDX vs modesetting DDX (iirc there was no glitching intel vsync disabled, vs rare glitching modesetting vsync disabled, or a lot of glitching vsync eabled both). It could have been different Wine, but I was thinking it was DRM related (something from 14.3 -> 15.0?)

For GW2 camera rotation is smoother with vsync enabled, but I could play fine with a 60 FPS cap in-game instead.

Edit: I have UHD 630 (could be Intel-specific with 620)
 
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Corwynt said:
I tried this, had some problems initially.
Ended up upgrading it to use Latest, pkg upgrade'd to wine-devel 11.0.r4 and had to install curl to get winetricks -q dxvk working
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Ah indeed, the /usr/local/bin/winetricks script constructs a wrong URL to fetch the latest dxvk in some cases.

Some context:
winetricks probes for the existence of the following programs to use for downloading a requested package, in this order:
  1. aria2c(1) (www/aria2)
  2. wget(1) (ftp/wget)
  3. curl(1) (ftp/curl)
  4. fetch(1) (base system)
For example, if you have www/aria2 installed, then winetricks will use aria2c(1) for fetching. If none of the external programs are installed, then it will use fetch(1). You can force the usage of a particular program with the WINETRICKS_DOWNLOADER environment variable:
Code: 
$ WINETRICKS_DOWNLOADER=curl winetricks -q dxvk

Now, fetch(1) fails to download the package, the URL is broken:
Code: 
...snip...

Downloading https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/download/vhttps://api.github.com/repos/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/243551604/dxvk-https://api.github.com/repos/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/243551604.tar.gz to /home/user/.cache/winetricks/dxvk
fetch: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/download/vhttps://api.github.com/repos/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/243551604/dxvk-https://api.github.com/repos/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/243551604.tar.gz: Not Found

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aria2c(1) has the same error, the constructed URL is broken. The other two download methods curl(1) and wget(1) don't have this problem. I haven't (yet) looked deeper where in the script the URL constructions goes off the cliff for the aria2c(1) and fetch(1) cases.

Specifying an explicit dxvk version works though, so this is a workaround when using aria2c(1) or fetch(1):
Code: 
$ winetricks -q dxvk2053
 
This post is pretty much a plea for help! Although I have experience with FreeBSD, I have next to none with Linux, or Wine, or how Steam works 'under the hood'.
Playing Squad (ProtonDB) is one of my last reasons for having a Win10 installation. I know it runs under Wine on Linux because I've played with people doing exactly that!

I thought I'd start with a fresh install of FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE but frankly I haven't even managed to get Steam itself working.

I'm also confused by what seems to be a lot of conflicting info:
  • "Steam bottler" versus "linuxulator-steam-utils"
  • wine-devel versus wine-proton versus wine-???
  • c7 or rl9 linux compatibility layer?
  • do I need to run xorg OR Wayland?
  • do I need any of the i386 / WOW64 aspects if the game is 64bit? surely Steam itself is also 64bit? where does the 32bit aspect come into play?
I'm leaning towards "linuxulator-steam-utils" but even though I've applied the patch seem to be stuck in port-building hell with gstreamer, not to mention wondering why I need 1GB of texlive-texmf?
I suspect I've made a fundamental mistake somewhere and I should reinstall FreeBSD from scratch and start again. (ZFS snapshots next time!)

So I guess I have a question:

Does anyone have a "install from bare-metal" how-to?

Or I could start a new thread and update the 1st post as I go along...
 
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