Post #3107524

2025-11-14 06:26 UTC

@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.

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@breakin@mastodon.gamedev.place 2025-11-14 07:57

@neobrain@mastodon.social @ari@fedi.arimelody.space Cool! Given that steam is Valve and FEX also seem to be Valve, do we think that steam will do this by default eventually? Lots of ARM devices exist and they want to run X86 games I guess.

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@ari@fedi.arimelody.space 2025-11-14 15:29

@neobrain@mastodon.social thanks for the advice! this software is extremely new to me so i didn't want to risk (time) pressing buttons i don't understand. disabling TSO memory and enabling reduced x87 precision yielded some hefty performance boosts! at 640x480p, half-life runs very competently averaging 30-50fps. very impressive for the pi 4b's little broadcom chip! try as i might, library forwarding has not been without issues. steamwebhelper fails to launch successfully with asound, drm, or waylandclient enabled, and forwarding GL results in ELFCLASS32 and GLIBC version errors. if you think this is worth a github issue, i'd be happy to report this! forwarding vulkan has been pretty harmless, albeit very inconsequential for my test case.

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