Hey guys, so this is primarily aimed at people with MNT Reform with the RK3588 processor module.
I have a question because I’ve been thinking about buying a Reform for a while and I’m interested in whether you can run games like Terraria, Stardew Valley maybe even PUBG or something with this processor. I know you have to sacrifice a lot on performance when you use the reform in comparison with normal pc but it would still be cool to be able to play some modern stuff on the Reform. I hope someone can help me thanks in advance
Hi, yes you can play games on the RK3588 MNT Reform. From your list, Stardew Valley even works on the A311D which is not as powerful (@josch has been playing it a lot).
Stuff that I’ve been playing with on my RK3588 Reform and Pocket Reform:
Dolphin Emulator (finished Resident Evil Zero today)
DuckStation Emulator
Half-Life using Xash3D engine
Dex (box86)
All kinds of Wadjet Eye point+click adventures using AGS engine (compiled natively)
Note, that the Reform does not run Windows, so to run Windows games, you need to run them via Wine or Proton if you are using Steam. Unfortunately, PUBG does not seem to work well with Proton: https://www.protondb.com/app/578080
Furthermore, the Reform is not an x86 (Intel) platform but an ARM notebook. Most commercial PC games are developed for x86 and not form ARM, so you have to go through an emulator like box64.
All of that being said, taking into account that many games are not made for Linux and many games are not made for ARM, gaming is still very much possible. Have a look at this thread: MNT Reform Gaming Thread
The performance of the RK3588 should blow the A311D out of the water, so the things that work on my laptop should work much better on the RK3588. For example, as Lukas already said, I played over 40 hours of networked multiplayer in Stardew Valley and we are now going through Mr. Qi’s quests. We just managed to grow 400 Qi beans and find 4 prismatic shards. On low graphics settings, I can even play Torchlight 2 on my A311D Reform: josch: "I did not expect that the MNT Reform with Banana …" - FLOSS.social
Oh, and since you asked about Terraria, I tried that out too and since the game works natively under Linux, you just need to wrap it in box64 to make it work. And it does work:
I installed it via the minigalaxy client for GOG. But actually playing it, the game is still a bit too slow. Since it works in theory, the increased performance of the RK3588 might make Terraria playable there.
I compiled from source and tried the version from apt but haven’t been successful.
Any game I try to run I get a black screen with audio under OpenGL. They worked under software emulation video backend, but that was more debugging to see if I could get something to run.
Some menus I click segfault dolphin, so I click and drag isos and that launches the game, but it is blackscreen.
I’ve chatted with some folks in the dolphin discord and was able to do gdb and see it was something with qt6. So I compiled qt 6.8 from source to try and fix the menu segfaults in case is was a dependency issue.
