As ExaGear died, other solutions emerged:

ExaGear Wine 40 remains relevant mainly as a historical curiosity and for low-end devices where Box86 is too heavy.

To get maximum performance, apply these tweaks:

“Wine 40” refers to the version of Wine bundled with ExaGear. Wine’s versioning follows a time-based model: version 4.0 was released in January 2019. Thus, ExaGear Wine 40 incorporates Wine 4.0.x, which brought:

ExaGear Wine 40 was released around mid-2019, shortly before Eltechs discontinued commercial support for the product.

The switch to the 4.0 core brought improved audio support and better handling of video memory. This results in fewer crashes during cinematic cutscenes and better sound synchronization—two areas where legacy emulation often struggles.

pkg install wget tar git proot x11-repo