PC-BSD

[tlumme]

Hi all,
I am building this year a new PC and plan running PC-BSD 10.x OS on it.
so Q is, how does Steam run thru Wine on it? anyone here run Steam client that way?

[PLANTROON]

What's the point of gaming on PC BSD ?
Well I tried FreeBSD as I am a fan of Archlinux and like to build the whole thing myself.
Here are some results on my lowend PC, the performance is the same if not better than on Linux if we talk about wine.
Beat Hazzard: https://youtu.be/A7Cew2MO-WE
Dota 2: https://youtu.be/HsPi2tFKm9Y
In general I can not recommend doing this. But it's definitely possible. I actually like BSD OS over Linux but the support is just not there (yet?).

[tlumme]

thank you for reply and you say "But it's definitely possible." thats nice hear and
about support just need support when BSD package(s) update process gives an error and
stops ..I think ill can manage the wine software & games by myself I hope.. :)

[XÆЯO_Vince]

I might support the concept if or when the Linux Steam client ever works with the FreeBSD Linux compatibility layer. My understanding is that it doesn't yet and so all gaming would be done with Wine, which isn't recommended due to performance loss and also no support for many modern DirectX 11 AAA games, which don't run in Wine yet but may have Linux game ports, which also won't run on FreeBSD.

My distribution of choice is Antergos, which is a pre-configured Archlinux with a nice desktop. There are a lot of user-friendly *nix OSes suitable for Steam gaming: Antergos, Mint, Ubuntu, openSUSE, PCLinuxOS, Mageia, etc. Linux also has better support for new hardware compared to any BSD, which is a fairly big point when talking about a brand new PC build.

[tlumme]

What's the point of gaming on PC BSD? because im a oddball, LooL :D

[KrizTmarK]

im sure that it will work with PC-BSD 10.x OS www.steampowered.com dwnld linux version

[PLANTROON]

Originally posted by KrizTmarK:

im sure that it will work with PC-BSD 10.x OS www.steampowered.com dwnld linux version

I don't think the Linux compatibility layer in any BSD is new enough to run steam. I could be wrong, last time I tried was when I made the videos :D

[MalaZZic]

ыуа

[SimicEngineer]

I tried it on FreeBSD 10.2 and/or 10-STABLE (don't remember when I made the switch). The only big things I ran into are:

1) The Steam client itself didn't entirely play nice with Wine (steamwebhelper.exe frequently crashing). I think this is a somewhat recent problem that applies to Steam under Wine generally and has nothing to do with FreeBSD. This only affects the web browser parts of Steam and doesn't prevent installing/launching games. Some reports say that you can work around this by configuring Wine to emulate Windows XP rather than Windows 7 when running Steam, but I didn't try that.

2) Wine has no support for the FreeBSD joystick/gamepad driver. There used to be a port you could install to get a Linux-compatible joystick device, but it's been broken for a few years.

[silaa_]

YES

[Mio Rin]

https://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/12/steam-on-pc-bsd-how-to-get-wine-running-3d-games/
https://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/12/steam-on-pcbsd-2-using-wine-as-a-streaming-client/

Have Fun! ^_^