FreeBSD Had A Very Successful 2018: Performance Improvements, Better Hardware Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: FreeBSD Had A Very Successful 2018: Performance Improvements, Better Hardware Support

The FreeBSD project is out with their latest status report spanning from January to September 2018. This report covers the bulk of their project changes this year granted not their very latest Q4 happenings, including the release earlier this month of the long-awaited FreeBSD 12.0...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-2018-Q1-Q3-Status

[Xaero_Vincent]

Does Vulkan work on FreeBSD? How about Wine DXVK? I'd be curious to see if it's viable for Windows gaming.

[aht0]

Does Vulkan work on FreeBSD? How about Wine DXVK? I'd be curious to see if it's viable for Windows gaming.

If you want to play windows games, use windows for it. Less grief. Or you'd have to contend with game's own bugs (nearly all games, except for old&simplest, have some) + bugs appearing due emulation+performance loss. Not worth the effort. But that's me.

EDIT: brief google query: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/d...-vulkan.60940/

[Mifune]

Does Vulkan work on FreeBSD?

Yes, but on drm-next i915 and amdgpu drivers only; several ports support a Vulkan backend already, including RPCS3 for PS3 games; see graphics/vulkan-loader

How about Wine DXVK? I'd be curious to see if it's viable for Windows gaming.

Should be viable for Direct3D 12 games only, see graphics/vkd3d; WoW64 support was committed to emulators/wine-devel some months ago, see review D1472