Re: Gaming on FreeBSD 15.0 via PCI Passthrough on Windows 10 Pro w/ AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT minor update

Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> writes:

> On Thu, May 14, 2026 at 7:01 PM Dmitry Salychev <dsl@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> > Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> writes:
>> > (..)
>> > Just a quick feedback here, yesterday I did run smoothly Cyberpunk
>> > 2077 using latest WINE from standard packages (wine-11.0_2,1) on
>> > FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE with nVidia RTX5070 GPU on XLibre
>> > (xlibre-nvidia-driver-devel-595.58.03). To my surprise!! No
>> > virtualization is necessary anymore!! Raytracing is not available due
>> > to missing features in the underlying drivers, but the graphics is
>> > still amazing and smooth in 4K resolution!! It also works well with
>> > other modern games like System Shock 2023 etc :-)
>> >
>> > BIG THANK YOU TO THE DESKTOP, GPU, AND WINE TEAMS!! =) <3
>>
>> Lucky you!
>>
>> I tried LSU [1] with wine-proton on the KDE Plasma desktop with RTX 2070
>> SUPER recently and had only a limited success. Baldur's Gate 3 and W40k Spare
>> Marine 2 failed to load with errors spamming similar to [2]:
>>
>> err:virtual:try_map_free_area mmap() error Cannot allocate memory, range
>> 0x7f600000-0x7f650000, unix_prot 0x3.
>>
>> I tried both ZFS and UFS and had ~20 GiB of RAM spare. Neither worked.
>
> Create dedicated zpool for wine stuff and link that to ~/.wine.
> Install winetricks and use that for tuning. Install required / missing
> components. Use gl and vulkan render. Switch system settings to use
> all built-in modules.
>
> Make snapshots, or just wipe all when not working, fear not, just
> don't link ~/.wine/drive_c or ~/.wine/drive_d until all works fine and
> you know how it works. It's not really straightforward but I made it
> somehow there so you can :-)
>
> I even made RMT (windoze only Raster Music Tracker for 8-bit Atari) working.
>
> Your friends are:
> winetricks
> wine winecfg
> wine control
> wine expolorer
>
> Have fun :-)

Okay, sounds good :)

We're talking about emulators/wine only here and not wine-devel or
wine-proton, right? Btw, do you have maybe any other those two games I
mentioned? If so, could you try on your setup? I'd like to know whether
they're worth spending time or not.

Regards,
Dmitry

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