Games Compatibility
Games which are known to be buildable and playable on Power9 Raptor systems, potentially with necessary tweaks needed in order to run.
Title | Compatibility | Hardware Tested | Software Tested | Notes |
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Minecraft | ★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01? | Void Linux | Cannot use the native game launcher, text to speech as they are built for x86. multimc from repos, openjdk 8 or 11, default 4kB page kernel, getting >60fps easily regardless of the resolution (rx 5700 xt), works out of box. https://forums.raptorcs.com/index.php/topic,118.0.html |
0 A.D | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Fedora 32 (rawhide) | Works without issues with AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 |
OpenTTD | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Fedora 32 (rawhide) | Works without issues. |
CorsixTH | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Fedora 32 (rawhide) | Works without issues. |
DevilutionX | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Fedora 32 (rawhide) | Works without issues. https://forums.raptorcs.com/index.php/topic,54.msg500.html#msg500 |
Minetest | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 10.2 | Works without issues. |
Trigger Rally | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 10.2 | Controller/joy input must be enabled in ~local/share/trigger-rally/trigger-rally-0.6.6.config with "<joystick enable="yes">". |
Flightgear | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 10.2 | Flightgear handles the audio device independently, switching between Blackbird's onboard and a GPU's audio output must be done in-game. |
Redeclipse | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 10.2 | Works without issues. |
Warzone 2100 | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 10.2 | Works without issues. |
TORCS | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 10.2 | No joypad input? |
Nexuiz | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 10.3 | Works without issues. |
Arx Libertatis | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 10.6 | Works without issues. |
Super Mario 64 PC Port | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 10.6 | Building as of Q4 2020, you will need to adjust cmake to target power9. https://forums.raptorcs.com/index.php/topic,208.0.html Otherwise works without issues. |
Xonotic | ★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 10.6 | Infrequently locks up the desktop session requiring a hard reset. I have yet to determine the cause. |
Veloren | ★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 10.6 | Fails to build on nightly rustc due to packed_simd. (error[E0635]: unknown feature mmx_target_feature) Awaiting packed_simd_2 with the 0.3.4 Veloren release. |
Stunt Rally | ★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 10.6 | Some maps segfault at load time. |
Barony | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 11.3 | DOPENAL_ENABLED=ON when building, in order to have audio. But this is also true on x86 platforms. |
Aleph One | ★★★★★ | Talos II (T2D9P01?) | Fedora 35 | https://www.talospace.com/2022/03/tonights-game-on-openpower-aleph-one.html |
Anarch | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 11.2 | Works without issues. Building on Debian requires libgbm-dev and libdrm-dev be installed along with the repo's listed dependencies. |
Vega Strike | ★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 11.3 | Edit ~/engine/src/gfx/background.cpp, prepend signed (around line 238) so that it is signed char tcoord[4][4];. Vega Strike should then build and run successfully. |
Tremulous | ★★★★★ | Talos II (T2D9P01?) | Fedora 33 | Single player works, multiplayer untested. https://forums.raptorcs.com/index.php/topic,355.msg2828.html#msg2828 |
vkQuake | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Fedora 32 (rawhide) | make complains about missing -lvulkan which can be solved by sudo ln -sf /usrlib64/libvulkan.so.1.2.131 /usr/lib64/libvulkan.so https://forums.raptorcs.com/index.php/topic,63.msg551.html#msg551 |
Doom 3 | ★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Fedora 32 (rawhide) | There are still some non-blocker issues that I have found such as font glyph misalignment, however it does not stop you from playing the game https://forums.raptorcs.com/index.php/topic,222.msg1617.html#msg1617 |
Heroes of Might and Magic 3: Complete edition (VCMI client) | ★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Fedora 32 (rawhide) | There are some quirks with video/graphic which seems to be only related to Fedora. https://forums.raptorcs.com/index.php/topic,104.msg936.html#msg936 |
Citra - Nintendo 3DS Emulator | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Fedora 32 (rawhide) | Builds successfully now after merging pull request #5961 https://forums.raptorcs.com/index.php/topic,343.msg2716.html#msg2716 |
Desmume - Nintendo DS Emulator | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 11.3 | Works without issues. |
Dolphin - GC/Wii Emulator | ★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Fedora 32 (rawhide) | Because of lacking JIT, the performance is dreadful. https://forums.raptorcs.com/index.php/topic,86.msg801.html#msg801 |
ECWolf | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Fedora 32 (rawhide) | A couple glitches but generally works fine (icculus version) https://forums.raptorcs.com/index.php/topic,98.msg871.html#msg871 |
PCSXR - Playstation Emulator | ? | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Fedora 32 (rawhide) | Emulator runs, no mention of game performance. https://forums.raptorcs.com/index.php/topic,81.msg751.html#msg751 |
ET Legacy | ★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Fedora 32 (rawhide) | The game plays perfectly. The only downside is lacking support for any game hosted with x86_64 server. https://forums.raptorcs.com/index.php/topic,266.msg2023.html#msg2023 |
SuperTux | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 11.3 | Works without issues. |
SuperTuxKart | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 11.3 | Works without issues. |
OpenSpades | ★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 11.3 | Fails to build due to AngelScript dependency. |
Star Ruler 2 | ★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 11.3 | Fails to build due to AngelScript dependency. |
Nanosaur | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 11.3 | Works without issues. |
Otto Matic | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 11.3 | Works without issues. |
Bugdom | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 11.3 | Works without issues. |
BZFlag | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 11.3 | Works without issues. |
OpenRW | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 11.3 | Works without issues. |
Naikari | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 11.3 | Works without issues. Ignore the python3-pip dependency and just install meson directly from your package repo to avoiding polluting your system with python pip packages. |
Space Cadet Pinball | ★★★★★ | Talos II (T2D9P01?) | Fedora 34 | https://www.talospace.com/2021/10/tonights-game-on-openpower-space-cadet.html |
Shockolate - System Shock | ★★★★★ | Talos II (T2D9P01?) | Fedora 34 | Does not support higher resolution game assets. https://www.talospace.com/2021/08/tonights-game-on-openpower-system-shock.html |
BStone - Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold | ★★★★★ | Talos II (T2D9P01?) | Fedora 34 | https://www.talospace.com/2021/05/tonights-game-on-openpower-blake-stone.html |
Strife: Veteran Edition | ★★★★★ | Talos II (T2D9P01?) | Fedora 33 | Edit ./CMakeFiles/strife-ve.dir/link.txt to unlink libSD2_main. https://www.talospace.com/2021/03/tonights-game-on-openpower-original.html |
DOSBox | ★★★★★ | Talos II (T2D9P01?) | Fedora 31 | https://www.talospace.com/2020/01/dosbox-jit-on-ppc64le-and-how-you-can.html |
Extreme Tux Racer | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 11.3 | Works without issues. |
Sonic Robo Blast 2 | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 11.3 | Works without issues. Assets need to be extracted from the installer from other releases, copy into ~/SRB2/assets/installer/) |
Gearhead | ★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 11.3 | Tile sprites have vertical artifacting, affecting some text as well. Similar artifacting found in ffmpeg issue 8802. |
mGBA - Gameboy Advance Emulator | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 11.3 | Works without issues. |
Sauerbraten | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Debian 11.3 | Works without issues. |