What about gaming on FreeBSD?

[sidetone]

Creating a BSD indie game developer community might also help.

Regarding the comment A. D. Sharpe Sr. above, maybe a "Gaming" subforum of the Multimedia forum could help to make FreeBSD more popular with gamers?

I now see this category falls under desktop.

Thread how-about-two-news-sections-games-and-blog.314/
Can we revisit the Game category in another way: to give it, its own forum section? Everything currently under Multimedia/Gaming which is under the games/gaming category tag can go into it. Everything outside of Multimedia/Gaming which has the Games/Gaming tag can be left out.

This tag: https://forums.freebsd.org/tags/gamesgaming/ and only which is currently under the Multimedia/Gaming forum. Nothing else, which is under other forum sections, even if it has the same games/gaming tag. Almost everything for gaming is under that tag, so not much has to be sorted for it.

 

[fernandel]

I like AGS games and I found Mordy2, download is from archiver.org. I like it.

 

[fernandel]

And I play Bohemian Yard (AGS game) now and it is interesting:

 

[Espionage724]

The Elder Scrolls Oblivion; runs in Wine easy, good performance, and no crashes with a couple few-hour long sessions!

Screenshot could be better but I was deep in some cave

 

[Espionage724]

Guild Wars 2 works! Latest DXVK and wine-devel

Edit: Trading post doesn't work (likely Chromium/CEF?), but -ignorecoherentgpucrash seems useful.

Edit: Trading post works after winetricks arial! (comment)

 

[thindil]

Guild Wars 2 works! Latest DXVK and wine-devel

Edit: Trading post doesn't work (likely Chromium/CEF?), but -ignorecoherentgpucrash seems useful.

Try to install arial font with winetricks to fix it. On default wine prefix it is:
winetricks arial
From my experience, with stable version of wine, it should do the trick.

 

[Espionage724]

Try to install arial font with winetricks to fix it. On default wine prefix it is:
winetricks arial
From my experience, with stable version of wine, it should do the trick.

That worked! Thanks

 

[Espionage724]

Two older versions of Runescape, with era-appropriate theming , and open-source server code running native on FreeBSD! This is way cool to be able to do

 

[Espionage724]

Old School RuneScape! (the real one )

Jagex Launcher wouldn't work initially until I added --single-process, and seemingly the same winetricks arial trick worked to allow typing email/pass for log-in! (couldn't tab or click the text window)

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RS3 works too! (same prefix )

 

[Espionage724]

Guild Wars 2 works on FreeBSD 15.0-BETA2! Used wine-10.0 (non-devel), latest DXVK-master, and winetricks arial

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUjOF7qfdk0

 

[Espionage724]

World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King, with localhost server (personal singleplayer) on 15.0:

Server and Client notes; getting the scripts down for the desktop launcher was fun (auth/world would sometimes start if mariadbd was foreground, but both start consistently with mariadb started in background instead; unexpected but turned out to integrate nicer)

Server compiled using Clang, LibreSSL, and MariaDB (no patches; builds as-is on FreeBSD straight from latest source ) Client notes use official patches and ISOs to go from WoW 1.0.1, TBC 2.x, all the way to WotLK 3.3.5.12340 (it was nostalgic hearing Wrath's CD install music!). WoW's performance is perfect! (60 FPS Vsync Intel UHD 630 fullscreen 1080p, no DXVK)

Client notes has the desktop launcher, and integrates localhost server scripts:

 

[CShell]

This was posted on the REDDIT FreeBSD forum - running FreeBSD wine 10.0 (native) on FreeBSD 15.0

Guild Wars 2 on FreeBSD 15.0 (Intel UHD 630, Wine; lab farm)​

Link: here

NICE work .

I am going to be shortly installing FreeBSD 15.0