What about gaming on FreeBSD?

[Alain De Vos]

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

 

[shkhln]

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.

Did you infer all of this from the name? As much as I dislike that script, there never were such claims.

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.

So you copied i386 wine or wine-devel setup and expected it to work with amd64 wine-proton. You do you.

 

[monwarez]

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

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.

 

[Corwynt]

Guild Wars 2: A popular MMORPG that is reported to run well on FreeBSD using Wine and DXVK (DirectX-to-Vulkan translation).

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.

 

[Corwynt]

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.

It appears the ncpu patch made it in early October 2025 so it's in there from 10.17 onwards. (Both patches)