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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Falcon-mkxp - RPG Maker XP / VX / VX Ace Emulator | ★★★★ | Talos II (T2D9P01?) | Debian 11.5 | Apply PR #5 and PR #6; build instructions will then work out of the box. Briefly went in-game without issues (audio works fine) in Coming of Age v2.2.1 and Saori's Ecchi Adventure v1.06 (the latter required copying win32_wrap.rb from the former, and downloading+extracting the RTP via InnoExtract). Gets well over 200fps on AST2500.
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| OpenJK - Jedi Academy | ★★★★★ | Talos II (T2D9P01?) | Gentoo | Works without issues. Gets 25fps at 800x600 with LLVMpipe (patched to use 64 threads). |
| OpenTyrian - Open-source port of the DOS shoot-em-up Tyrian | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Void Linux | Compiles on void linux without issues. Runs perfectly even on highest scaling. |
| LinApple - Apple IIe Emulator forked from applewin | ★★★★★ | Blackbird C1P9S01 | Void Linux | Compiles and runs on void linux without issues. |
| NBlood - Blood | ★★★★★ | Talos II | Gentoo | Works fine. |
| EDuke32 - Duke Nukem 3D | ★★★★★ | Talos II | Gentoo | Works fine. |
| GZDoom - Doom I && II, Heretic, Hexen, Strife, Chex Quest | ★★★★★ | Talos II | Gentoo | Works fine. |
| Shadow Warrior | ★★★★ | Blackbird | ? | https://www.talospace.com/2023/01/tonights-game-on-openpower-shadow.html |
| ZGloom | ★★★★★ | Talos II | Fedora 36 | https://www.talospace.com/2022/09/tonights-game-on-openpower-zgloom.html |
