What about gaming on FreeBSD?

[VulcanRidr]

I read your blog post (above) ... and totally I understand !

Since you are a Harpoon fan you might consider a VERY similar game made in (this century) with an excellent game database called: Command Modern Operations. I have been playing this game for years and I own all the DLC for it. ... and it just happens to be ON SALE right now for 50% off.

Funny thing is that CMO has been discontinued by Matrix Games, as has the Harpoon bundle.

If you are interested in Harpoon, here is a great article from a couple of years ago discussing its history.

 

[cracauer@]

CMO has been discontinued? I don't think so.

Matrix games uses a funny copy protection that sometimes make plain Wine ineffective and requires Proton.

 

[VulcanRidr]

CMO has been discontinued? I don't think so.

Matrix games uses a funny copy protection that sometimes make plain Wine ineffective and requires Proton.

I was going by the listing on the website:

Matrix Games

www.matrixgames.com

However, CMO is not discontinued. I thought it was just a name change.

Matrix Games

www.matrixgames.com

 

[CShell]

Funny thing is that CMO has been discontinued by Matrix Games, as has the Harpoon bundle.

Well... I placed CMO into my shopping cart on Matrix Games just yesterday as well as "ALL" of the DLC, so I am not sure where you are getting this information. You are correct that they removed Harpoon from their site since I last looked -- but I am pretty sure it was for sale earlier in the year on the site (Admirals Edition).

Does it work on WINE? I looked on winehq, and it has one listing for it, and it was only bronze.

So that's why I pointed you at the PROTONDB link (aka Proton Wine) - Command: Modern Operations. If you install FreeBSD wine proton (you might) get this to work IF you follow the recipe that the one guy had for it. See the 3rd item in that post.

You can install wine-proton on FreeBSD here: [14.3-RELEASE in this case]

$ pkg search wine-proton
wine-proton-9.0.3 Wine with a bit of extra spice
$

But (you might?) have better luck on your Linux dist at the moment. I am trying the install CMO as well but only when I have cycles right now. I am also holding out hope for Wine version 11 on FreeBSD 15.0.

Thank you for the Harpoon links -- I'll take a look

 

[CShell]

Black Mesa (Steam version) crashes for me. What trick are you using?

I didn’t do much, I just ran it and it worked out of the box

You guys might want to swap which FreeBSD version is being used: (14.3? 15.0?) and whether this game was working on Wine (Version 10, 11) or Wine Proton ... and maybe other settings !

Good luck !