Seriously though. It never works for me.
It is speaking to you in an Eldritch language that none of our puny minds can comprehend. When the dreams begin though, then you will know, THEN you will begin to understand…
Yeah, I use wine, proton, and Lutris’ take on Proton-GE (for winecfg and wineconsole) . I usually get it to work with one of those three, but some programs are just so damn stubborn.
Especially unity games can be a PIA with their weird font and dll requirements, causing artifacts or bugged screens at seemingly random times.
Either that, or im just terrible at using wine. :D
Works great for me on everything except, hilariously, Ski Free.
you might wanna try a distro that has it pre installed and configured like mint or nobara
I’ve been considering it. Right now I’m on Pop!_OS as I use a System76 laptop. It’s based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS which is pretty old at this point. Which distro would you recommend for best WINE preconfigured and up to date install?
Try bottles from flatpak
Giving it a shot! TY for the suggestion.
Nobara is fedora with some gaming spesific tweaks and latest kernel and drivers, it works really well for me and is from a reputable person (Glorious eggroll creator of proton ge and a red hat employee). I have been having a blast with it for almost half a year now.
One more question, thank you by the way for helping. Would Nobara be a bit bloated for me considering I don’t really game or even have an Nvidia card? I just use an Intel 13th Gen i7 with onboard graphics. Would a different distro with wine preconfigured be better without all that extra stuff like steam/Nvidia compat pre installed? If so which would you recommend?
nvidia compat and steam aren’t pre installed (unless you use the nvidia iso) but you are given an option to install it on the wellcome pop up probably same for steam. You could try to install wine while looking at a tutorial on any distro or just install lutris or bottles on your distro and use wine trough that
Nobara comes with WINE 9 preconfigured?
systemwide, click on .exe and go brr version is on 8.20 staging at the moment, but I am running mod organizer 2 with wine 9 using lutris (bottles would work too). I even added a .desktop shortcut for it using lutris so I can open it by searching it like a native linux program.
How about bottles?
Bottles, like most related things, is based on WINE. DLL hell is real. Source: Been there, done that, gave up after an hour (not counting installing Bottles, which came with its own problems unfortunately.)
There’s a dependencies tab which is a lil confusing but it fixes all your problems in a few clicks
Oh, believe me, I found that and installed everything except the kitchen sink (which took a ridiculously long time with a non-rotating throbber and no progress bars), but the DLLs and OCXs the program insisted on having were not in any of those.
I then found and downloaded what I thought might be the right files from somewhere online (ClamAV said they were clean of malware at least) and put them in the right place in the directory structure. Some of those were detected and I made progress.
Others weren’t registered with the, well, registry properly and
regsvr32on the command line part of Bottles didn’t seem to be working for at least one of them. Maybe I needed specific options or was doing it wrong, but no error messages were happening.Maybe I was only one step away from getting it working, but there was no way to know and I had no idea what to try next, so I gave up.
I mean, I could request those obscure DLLs be added to the Bottles dependencies repository in the hope that that might make it work, but that could be a long wait, and it was a crappy little Windows game I just wanted muck around with again and would have gotten bored with after a few days.
Yeah, I know. There isn’t much context, so it could’ve been wine and winetricks UX, which people do have trouble with sometimes.
I didn’t expect video playback to work
C# .exes never work for me
I run anything through steam.
Flatpak protonupQ for updates from proton-ge
Steam: add non-steam-game, select exe, go to settings, compatibility, select latest proton-ge.
And almost everything works.
