Question about getting battle net to work in freebsd.

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rawrmonster

I have used linux since 2008 and was really wanting to try out freebsd due to the wonderful documentation. For the most part freebsd does everything that I need it to do but the only thing that has me slightly worried is I still play world of warcraft classic (windows game). In linux it requires me to use a version of wine found in GitHub under the user called GloriousEggroll and the repo called proton-ge-custom (version 9.23) and lutris. Has anyone had luck getting this proton version to work in freebsd or found another way to make battle.net work correctly? I found the linux emulation section in the handbook but I am not sure how well this performs due to it being an emulation on top of the normal translation that wine does. Any help on this would be amazing.
 
I really hope I posted this in the right place. I just found there is another part of the forum for games. I wasn't sure since it kind of falls between both of them.
 
I really hope I posted this in the right place. I just found there is another part of the forum for games. I wasn't sure since it kind of falls between both of them.
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The right thread for gaming would be Multimedia/Gaming, I think.

You can get wine or wine-proton in fresh ports.
If you want wine-proton-GE, you could see if you can get glorious eggroll patches (excluding the linux ones) into Wine-Proton, and then build the port.
I would suggest trying wine-proton out first.
 
I am wondering if anyone currently has a working battle net install in FreeBSD. I know Linux requires proton-ge to work but ge is heavily modified for Linux. I am really wanting to try FreeBSD but I want to verify this one thing first.
 
rawrmonster said:
I am wondering if anyone currently has a working battle net install in FreeBSD.
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Battle.net didn't work for me on 14.2-R-p2 with Wine from pkg and 64-bit prefix last night (it installs but the first-time log-in window still has a flood of Wine debugger crashing since around 2023).

With that crashing though in the past I was able to continue without log-in and update games fine. WoW and D3 allowed log-in from in-game main menus.
 
The WOW64 issues is what was keeping me from gaming on FreeBSD for years. Idk if that has been fixed yet, but I think it has.

As for battle.net I have found it works just fine with stock Wine in Linux. So I suspect it should work fine. PlayOnBSD might be a good launcher as an alternative for Lutris for you.
 
For 32-bit games, I recommend creating a full 32-bit chroot (I wouldn't bother with a jail) in FreeBSD and then just installing WINE in that. There is a lot of complexity in WoW64 relying on lots of parts working together and I'm not sure that the nature of open-source caters well for it.

At the very least, it could be a good temporary measure until WINE's WoW64 does become more mature. Obviously if the game is mixed 32-bit/64-bit which some installers, launchers are, then that makes things a bit more tricky!
 
kpedersen said:
For 32-bit games, I recommend creating a full 32-bit chroot (I wouldn't bother with a jail) in FreeBSD and then just installing WINE in that. There is a lot of complexity in WoW64 relying on lots of parts working together and I'm not sure that the nature of open-source caters well for it.

At the very least, it could be a good temporary measure until WINE's WoW64 does become more mature. Obviously if the game is mixed 32-bit/64-bit which some installers, launchers are, then that makes things a bit more tricky!
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I'm pretty sure the previous poster is referring to World of Warcraft, rather than the Wine's WoW64 implementation (which works just fine).
 
shkhln said:
I'm pretty sure the previous poster is referring to World of Warcraft, rather than the Wine's WoW64 implementation (which works just fine).
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Yep, this convo is referring to two types of WoW (It was going to happen eventually! ;)

If I recall though, WoW (the game) is 32-bit. So requires WoW64 (the translator) to run on 64-bit Windows/WINE.
 
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