Post #3107523
2025-11-14 02:53 UTC
@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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@neobrain@mastodon.social 2025-11-14 06:26
@ari@fedi.arimelody.space @breakin@mastodon.gamedev.place Cool that you got set up so easily! Some other settings to play around with are disabling TSO and enabling x87 reduced precision. Library forwarding indeed should also offer a decent speedup though.