Gaming experience with Orange Pi 5 (RK3588) on Armbian

[KhanhDTP]

Armbian 25.8.2 Noble XFCE (BSD Kernel: 6.1.115)

 + PanVk - mesa 26.0 (https://launchpad.net/~ernstp/+archive/ubuntu/mesaaco)

 + box64 3.9 (https://ryanfortner.github.io/box64-debs/)

 + proton-10.0-3-amd64-wow64 (https://github.com/Kron4ek/Wine-Builds/releases/download/proton-10.0-3/wine-proton-10.0-3-amd64-wow64.tar.xz)

+ DXVK-stripped v1.5.5

~60fps@720p

 

Left 4 Dead 2

 

[KhanhDTP]

Armbian 25.8.2 Noble XFCE (BSD Kernel: 6.1.115)

 + PanVk - mesa 26.0 (https://launchpad.net/~ernstp/+archive/ubuntu/mesaaco)

 + box64 3.9 (https://ryanfortner.github.io/box64-debs/)

 + proton-10.0-3-amd64-wow64 (https://github.com/Kron4ek/Wine-Builds/releases/download/proton-10.0-3/wine-proton-10.0-3-amd64-wow64.tar.xz)

+ DXVK-stripped v1.5.5

>=60fps@720p

 

Super Robot Wars V

[晓飞丁]

Have you guys ever try FEX-emu instead of box64? I heard FEX is 10%~20% faster than box64

[NicoD]

52 minutes ago, 晓飞丁 said:

Have you guys ever try FEX-emu instead of box64? I heard FEX is 10%~20% faster than box64

I tried FEX-emu, but on our devices it's slower. It is optimised for snapdragon while box64 is more optimised for the lower-end SBC ARM-SOC.
Here a video I once made about it. Things have changed a lot, fex-emu has matured at lot in this time. I didn't know it was build for steam back then so didn't test that. Also have no steam games that would run.

 

[NicoD]

Another video you'd like to see.

 

[KhanhDTP]

2 hours ago, 晓飞丁 said:

Have you guys ever try FEX-emu instead of box64? I heard FEX is 10%~20% faster than box64

 

I am using hangover-10.18, which is Fex-Emu 2510.

https://github.com/AndreRH/hangover/releases/tag/hangover-10.18

 

I didn't benchmark. But I think rn, the main bottleneck is the GPU (PanVk driver is now only ~60% performance of the libMali driver).

[KhanhDTP]

1 hour ago, NicoD said:

Also have no steam games that would run.

 

Steam games are working now, I tested some games a week ago. But the steam client alone took ~5gb. So, I would not recomend unless you have a 16gb board.

[晓飞丁]

3 hours ago, KhanhDTP said:

I didn't benchmark. But I think rn, the main bottleneck is the GPU (PanVk driver is now only ~60% performance of the libMali driver).

Sorry I am an amateur on rk3588. If libMali have better performance. But why most of you are using PanVk? 

 

2 hours ago, KhanhDTP said:

Steam games are working now, I tested some games a week ago. But the steam client alone took ~5gb. So, I would not recomend unless you have a 16gb board.

Without steam it is meanlingless, while we could only play games with no drm?

 

2 hours ago, KhanhDTP said:

Steam games are working now, I tested some games a week ago. But the steam client alone took ~5gb. So, I would not recomend unless you have a 16gb board.

I found a way to shrink the memory occupation by not starting the steamclientwebhelp. See the tips here :https://www.howtogeek.com/694531/how-to-reduce-steams-ram-usage-from-400-mb-to-60-mb/

[KhanhDTP]

1 hour ago, 晓飞丁 said:

If libMali have better performance. But why most of you are using PanVk? 

 

Because the compatibility, I can't get the libMali driver to work with 32bit games (DXVK specifically). Also, although 64bit games work with the libMali, most of the games I have tested are black screen, or missing textures.

 

1 hour ago, 晓飞丁 said:

I found a way to shrink the memory occupation by not starting the steamclientwebhelp. See the tips here :https://www.howtogeek.com/694531/how-to-reduce-steams-ram-usage-from-400-mb-to-60-mb/

 

Thanks for the sharing, I will try it later.

[KhanhDTP]

Armbian 25.8.2 Noble XFCE (BSD Kernel: 6.1.115)

 + PanVk - mesa 26.0 (https://launchpad.net/~ernstp/+archive/ubuntu/mesaaco)

 + box64 3.9 (https://ryanfortner.github.io/box64-debs/)

 + GE-proton-10.25 (https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom)

+ DXVK-stripped v1.6.1

~60fps@1080p

 

Half Life 2

 

[KhanhDTP]

12 hours ago, 晓飞丁 said:

I found a way to shrink the memory occupation by not starting the steamclientwebhelp. See the tips here :https://www.howtogeek.com/694531/how-to-reduce-steams-ram-usage-from-400-mb-to-60-mb/

 

Still the same 

[晓飞丁]

2 hours ago, KhanhDTP said:

Still the same 

It's wierd that in native Windows environment. steamwebhelper will only cost about 500MB memroy

[heyrict]

20 hours ago, 晓飞丁 said:

If libMali have better performance. But why most of you are using PanVk? 

I failed to get a working OpenGL with libmali. A more performant GLES may give a more performant desktop, but won't make most games working.

Since the community have been doing excellent work bringing rk3588 to mainline, it makes no sense to stick to a 5.x vendor kernel for a closed-source library with flaws, at least in my use case.

 

5 hours ago, 晓飞丁 said:

It's wierd that in native Windows environment. steamwebhelper will only cost about 500MB memroy

The FEX's developer has explained the reason why memory usage is high under arm64, and I think box64 may also have similar problems.

Edited 2 hours ago by heyrict

[KhanhDTP]

https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64/issues/3146#issuecomment-3630691360

 

Optimize is on the way, just wait!