Post #3107522

2025-11-13 07:33 UTC

@ari@fedi.arimelody.space @neobrain@mastodon.social I've been running steam on my raspberry 5. It does run games but I am not sure how it does it. Do you know if FEX would change how it works?

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@ari@fedi.arimelody.space 2025-11-14 02:53

@neobrain@mastodon.social @breakin@mastodon.gamedev.place happy to say i've just tried this! FEX build and install went incredibly smoothly on my pi 4, albeit very slowly (note: i use an external USB3 boot drive, and was running completely stock; no overclocking or other tweaks) installed steam, half-life, jumped into training, got about 10fps avg. at 1080p. tanking resolution only gave me about 1 extra fps average, so my bottleneck is likely CPU. i haven't tweaked my pi or FEX at all yet. very stable, though! actually running it all was very simple: steam installed as normal on the host, and run with FEXBash steam. everything is lifted to x86_64 from there. currently trying to investigate how much of a performance boost i can get by forwarding host libraries...fingers crossed!

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