For those having a hard time seeing the scores due to TH-cam's annoying text while pausing: Scenes of less action: Linux 96fps, Win 92fps, FreeBSD 102fps Scenes of heavy action: Linux 87fps, Win 82fps, FreeBSD 96fps For what it's worth, Windows is just an OS pushed to the public for its "click and go" experience + some unwanted bloat.. It ain't terrible. Linux is variable, depending on the distro, it comes bundled with different things that create a similar experience with less bloat. FreeBSD is bare bones as much as you wish. Just install TinyWM (window manager) and some essentials like audio (pulse if you prefer that), and your display (xf86 for intel onboard, or nvidia for dedicated, or whatever AMD uses, it's been a while). You don't even need a desktop environment like xfce or gnome, just play as is and enjoy the frames.
Actually, in reality it likely means that the GPU was better utilized, which allowed more frames to be output, which meant that the CPU was no longer as much of a bottleneck and that the GPU was used more. It has nothing to do with the GPU being better utilized by the system, but rather more CPU resources being freed up to be used for the game. Thus, the GPU can be utilized more to output more frames. This can likely be attributed to FreeBSD being more bare bones than Linux and having even fewer things it has to run in the background to compete for resources. But I wonder how this would compare to, say, a barebones Gentoo installation. @@SamuTheFrog
Interesting... I am playing games any more, that was about 30 years ago. And I was surprised that FreeBSD and Wine was running Unreal (I think it was that) quite fine - at that days :-) Cheers, Norbert
is it just me, or does the windows variant look a bit more sharper? planning to use bsd, but i just noticed the normal windows gameplay looking a bit sharper? 🤔
The FreeBSD version has artifacts and seems to be slower than the rest. Linux comes second and Windows has the best experience. Linux and Windows are unnoticeable unless they are put side by side, but the FreeBSD version is noticeably "slow" and the artifacts are very clear. Nonetheless, It's still impressive, and I wonder what happens with games that run natively on Linux and FreeBSD!
I have been playing starfield on KDE Debian linux using steam and proton. It seems really stable most of the time, recently a few crashes after updates, but they seem to clear up, have not had any in the past few days.
Just as a warning to anyone who wants to try FreeBSD cause of this video. Don't. Especially if you're on a laptop. My keyboard, WiFi and even Ethernet didn't work. I had to download the pkg .pkg, untar it and then use pkg-static to install pkg itself so then I could install the Ethernet drivers that were also downloaded on another machine. A major mess. I tried 10 games and not a SINGLE one even launched, apart from Doom which launched and then it was time to get in the main menu froze the whole laptop. FreeBSD might be actually a good alternative at some point but, right now, don't even bother.
windows will always be the best as its the most used software and therefore the more optimized one. windows gpu usage was 20% less than linux in ur tests shown
Thats exactly the opposite of what you want. You want more usage. I wouldnt say Windows is the most optimized, but true, it at least works most of the time xompared to linux
Nope! Native games will run the same, if not better, on Linux and FreeBSD. This was a game run on whine and still, Linux was always as good as Windows.
This isn't true. Windows (sometimes) has better performance with DirectX, while IO, OpenGL and Vulkan performance are substantially worse than Linux. Java performance in Linux also obliterates Windows, look at any Minecraft Java edition comparison between Linux and Windows. Lastly, Windows uses a hybrid kernel design, which is inherently slower than Linux's monolithic kernel.
Me: i use gentoo because bsd doesn't do gaming And now you just proved it and another youtuber proved me it is now possible. I'm still waiting for valve to make a move with bsd so i will install openbsd since freebsd is always broken and not openbsd
I've been wondering, given the extend of Linux compatibility, if it's possible to run Steam on BSD. It feels like it should be, but I don't currently have a test machine around to try it out.
No idea how did you reach that conclusion, the video clearly shows that linux is faster than windows and author said that he felt the gameplay was the most stable out of the three. FreeBSD, however, isn't even supposed to run windows games, and seeing it ingame, even with the help of wine, is surprising
Actually, Linux and FreeBSD have encountered some issues from various communities and big corporations. On the other hand, Windows has a long history of updates and a large number of developers working on it to ensure games run natively on the operating system. In contrast, we have Linux and FreeBSD, where developers have the flexibility to work on both and create packages to enhance stability for games. Additionally, we can observe that FreeBSD on PS4 and PS5 often outperforms Windows.
it is awesome that all three people on the planet that use freebsd, now can play games
@@aurorasacrifice. ok go play ps5 games on your freebsd
@@hoyteternal you can do it by booting up the ps5 since it's using freebsd, doesn't sound like 5 people to me.
@@aurorasacrifice. Doesn't really say a lot. They are using the kernel (with added stuff) and their games are made for that modified "BSD".
Windows users: nobody uses linux
Linux users: nooooooooooo how dare you 😭
Also linux users:
I dunno man that’s kinda mean there are like 30,000+ users
Dude! Playing games on FreeBSD is bonkers. I never thought I'd see anyone give it a try. Thanks for an interesting video!
For those having a hard time seeing the scores due to TH-cam's annoying text while pausing:
Scenes of less action: Linux 96fps, Win 92fps, FreeBSD 102fps
Scenes of heavy action: Linux 87fps, Win 82fps, FreeBSD 96fps
For what it's worth, Windows is just an OS pushed to the public for its "click and go" experience + some unwanted bloat.. It ain't terrible.
Linux is variable, depending on the distro, it comes bundled with different things that create a similar experience with less bloat.
FreeBSD is bare bones as much as you wish. Just install TinyWM (window manager) and some essentials like audio (pulse if you prefer that), and your display (xf86 for intel onboard, or nvidia for dedicated, or whatever AMD uses, it's been a while). You don't even need a desktop environment like xfce or gnome, just play as is and enjoy the frames.
Yup. Another freebsd victory. Still very bloated,btw.
thanks a lot for this
I have always loved Unix systems. Now that games are more playable, I may go back to it.
More FPS on the BSD system, but to be fair, in BSD the GPU % was higher all the time than linux or windows, thats why the FPS was always higher too.
So, wouldn't this mean then that BSD is better at utilizing hardware to it's fullest?
@@SamuTheFrog WINE sucks compared to Proton.
Actually, in reality it likely means that the GPU was better utilized, which allowed more frames to be output, which meant that the CPU was no longer as much of a bottleneck and that the GPU was used more.
It has nothing to do with the GPU being better utilized by the system, but rather more CPU resources being freed up to be used for the game. Thus, the GPU can be utilized more to output more frames.
This can likely be attributed to FreeBSD being more bare bones than Linux and having even fewer things it has to run in the background to compete for resources.
But I wonder how this would compare to, say, a barebones Gentoo installation.
@@SamuTheFrog
@@vitordelima proton is wine tho
never saw a freebsd gaming benchmark before :O, very nice man, subscribed!
How did you manage to find a game that no one's ever heard of to test?
It looks great, though
Just like my sense of humor
F.I.S.T. is great. Highly recommend.
Thanks for video
I tried to benchmark Chromium on Linux and Windows have better results than Freebsd
wtf buddy
how did you do a benchmark of OS's running from USB???
Interesting... I am playing games any more, that was about 30 years ago. And I was surprised that FreeBSD and Wine was running Unreal (I think it was that) quite fine - at that days :-) Cheers, Norbert
I wad wondering about gaming on BSD systems.
How to install GOG games on BSD system ?
Depends dude, native with .sh files if not with wine
@@chibli7941
I gotta find out if I ever get started with BSD...
is it just me, or does the windows variant look a bit more sharper? planning to use bsd, but i just noticed the normal windows gameplay looking a bit sharper? 🤔
Thx for vid 👍
This is great, of course, but it's just one game and it's not an indicator of efficient hardware usage.
hmm, almost no difference, the interesting thing from this video for me is that FreeBSD can be useful
First game you tested has a DX12 renderer, that's less CPU bound than DX11 in UE4. Why test in DX11/DXVK?
Man I never knew FreeBSD that good.
The FreeBSD version has artifacts and seems to be slower than the rest. Linux comes second and Windows has the best experience. Linux and Windows are unnoticeable unless they are put side by side, but the FreeBSD version is noticeably "slow" and the artifacts are very clear.
Nonetheless, It's still impressive, and I wonder what happens with games that run natively on Linux and FreeBSD!
I use GhostBSD and MX Linux, but I feel more fluent in BSD, I don't know why.
What that "fluent" means? If you care to explain it more, we could make some theories as to why ;)
Maybe because it has no systemd?
@@fabriciochamorro2985 Puede ser, tendría que probar con antix que no usa systemd
@@godnyx117 What a cute clown I met today. Responding to your comment, the system works faster than any Linux and Windows :)
I have been playing starfield on KDE Debian linux using steam and proton. It seems really stable most of the time, recently a few crashes after updates, but they seem to clear up, have not had any in the past few days.
I had no idea was possible to play on BSD... nice.
one game on different platforms with different versions of proton, and people take this video seriously...
Just as a warning to anyone who wants to try FreeBSD cause of this video. Don't. Especially if you're on a laptop. My keyboard, WiFi and even Ethernet didn't work. I had to download the pkg .pkg, untar it and then use pkg-static to install pkg itself so then I could install the Ethernet drivers that were also downloaded on another machine. A major mess.
I tried 10 games and not a SINGLE one even launched, apart from Doom which launched and then it was time to get in the main menu froze the whole laptop.
FreeBSD might be actually a good alternative at some point but, right now, don't even bother.
almost as if testing one (1) game on three different platforms, two of them using different versions of proton is fundamentally flawed
you shouldn't be capped to your monitor refresh for testing
@@KomithEr yes, but the challenge was to make it even work. This is the first comparison of this kind to be shared publicly
What is bsd?
Linux for the win also because the Vulkan precache works great ;)
windows will always be the best as its the most used software
and therefore the more optimized one.
windows gpu usage was 20% less than linux in ur tests shown
Thats exactly the opposite of what you want. You want more usage. I wouldnt say Windows is the most optimized, but true, it at least works most of the time xompared to linux
@@eden2980 it would have been more usage if he didnt have the fps capped to 100. windows is just more efficient
eggplants will always be the best because the dog lives in the doghouse, and therefore cat walked away. same logic
Nope! Native games will run the same, if not better, on Linux and FreeBSD. This was a game run on whine and still, Linux was always as good as Windows.
This isn't true. Windows (sometimes) has better performance with DirectX, while IO, OpenGL and Vulkan performance are substantially worse than Linux.
Java performance in Linux also obliterates Windows, look at any Minecraft Java edition comparison between Linux and Windows.
Lastly, Windows uses a hybrid kernel design, which is inherently slower than Linux's monolithic kernel.
Me: i use gentoo because bsd doesn't do gaming
And now you just proved it and another youtuber proved me it is now possible.
I'm still waiting for valve to make a move with bsd so i will install openbsd since freebsd is always broken and not openbsd
I've been wondering, given the extend of Linux compatibility, if it's possible to run Steam on BSD. It feels like it should be, but I don't currently have a test machine around to try it out.
So Windows wins again... no surprise ... linux is not made for the desktop or games
No idea how did you reach that conclusion, the video clearly shows that linux is faster than windows and author said that he felt the gameplay was the most stable out of the three. FreeBSD, however, isn't even supposed to run windows games, and seeing it ingame, even with the help of wine, is surprising
@@alksonalex186 To add on, FreeBSD at times outpaced Windows by whole 10 FPS and that was crazy too.
Actually, Linux and FreeBSD have encountered some issues from various communities and big corporations. On the other hand, Windows has a long history of updates and a large number of developers working on it to ensure games run natively on the operating system. In contrast, we have Linux and FreeBSD, where developers have the flexibility to work on both and create packages to enhance stability for games. Additionally, we can observe that FreeBSD on PS4 and PS5 often outperforms Windows.
wins how? it looked like freebsd has the least amount of fps drops
@@Outlaw_Official It however had artifacts and felt "slower" than Windows and even Linux. What to be expected by wine...