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Haha. Try it before you bash it. If anyone reading this wants to know more: Wine, PlayOnLinux, and steam also has a fair amount of native linux games. The bashing of Linux is akin to peasents bashing PC's before actually playing games on them (IE: It is completely misinformed).
> I think it says a lot about how baked I am into the Windows experience that it's hard for me to understand how a file can just not have an extension.
If it helps, the reason Windows is so dependent on file extensions may be that Windows grew out of an old operating system called DOS, which in turn was based on an even older operating system called CP/M. DOS didn't have the ability to flag particular files as executable, so Microsoft decided that compiled executable files would end in .EXE and executable batch files (text files containing DOS commands) would end in .BAT.
> I would love to find an easy-to-understand guide to what's happening when you use Wine to run an .exe.
I can't help you with that because I don't use WINE myself. I don't use any Windows apps at home at all.
However, you might find PlayOnLinux useful. It's a tool you can use to install Windows apps on Linux and set up customized WINE configurations for each app.
Try WPS Office.
http://wps-community.org/downloads
or you can install Office 2010 or 2013 using PlayOnLinux.
https://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-801-Microsoft_Office_2010.html
https://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-2665-Microsoft_Office_2013.html
You might need to change wine staging version to latest.
No video card, but do you have integrated Intel graphics at least?
What games do you like do play? Do you have Steam?
I play a Windows based game (League of Legends) on Linux through PlayOnLinux. It works great. It wouldn't work great if I didn't have a discrete GPU though.
Also, related subreddit: /r/linux_gaming.
There are games that are designed to run on Linux. You just install them (for example with Steam), click "Run" and they run.
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Then there are games designed to run only on Windows. For those, you can use Wine. But not everything works with Wine.
For example, that Baldur's Gate you mentioned should work out of box. Install wine, insert CD, doubleclick setup.exe, next, next, it should even create desktop icon. But should you try to install (another example) GTA V, it would simply crash.
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To say with certainty if you'll be able to run something Windows-only is complicated, but you can check WineHQ AppDB for SW that someone else already tested.
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And if you are completely green in this all, check PlayOnLinux, program that basically wraps all above into simple gui.
First, be aware that Wine is more of a hack than a real alternative to Windows. Don't expect all your games to work with it, or those that do to have the same perfs as on Windows. Also, most of the "compatible" games will need some tweaks; be prepared to have to manipulate the command line interface to set them up.
That being said, the easiest way for a beginner to use Wine is probably through PlayOnLinux, which is basically a GUI to manage Wine games. It also comes with installers for various games that handle the tweaks I mentioned.
Another website to keep at hand is the Wine Application Database. It keeps track of numerous games, if they can run with Wine (and how well) and the tweaks that need to be used. It's the first website you visit when you need to check if a specific game can run with Wine and if it'll be a hassle to do it.
Also, not directly related to Wine, be aware that the status of graphic drivers on Linux is quite a mess. You'll have various issuess with AMD (ATI) and Intel GPUs; a nVidia GPU is strongly recommended to play on Linux.
You don't have to make a choice between Steam or Origin, you can redeem the game on both. But Steam works much better than Origin with Wine.
For easy installation, there is PlayOnLinux, but the installer for DAO is seemingly outdated. Someone just proposed a patch but it's yet to be accepted. See here
Otherwise, you can find information to get the game working manually with Wine here, but it's going to be a bit involved.
A bit of a chicken and egg problem
Gamer: "Developers aren't making games for Linux, there's no reason to use it"
Developers: "There's not enough users on Linux to justify support."
https://www.playonlinux.com/en/ linuxmasterrace
I play Civ IV all the time on Wine, runs good! You just need an ISO of the original CD and the Beyond the Sword expansion from somewhere. Firaxis kindly released a patch updating it while removing copy protection from it. I recommend also downloading the latest Better AI from the Civ Fanatics forums. Here are my install notes:
Delete .wine directory.
Run export WINEARCH=win32.
winetricks msxml3 d3dx9 msxml4 quartz devenum corefonts lucida
winetricks dotnet11 instead of vcrun2003.
Run winecfg and go to the Libraries tab. Find the library called gameux, and add it to the list of overrides, and then edit it to be disabled.
Copy tahoma.tff and tahomabd.tff into /home/user/.wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts.
Mount CIVILIZATION4.mdf something like: sudo mount -t iso9660 -o loop /home/user/Documents/ccd-civ4/CIVILIZATION4.mdf /media/image.
run the Beyond the Sword CD from Z: prompt,
Thought there was a problem, tried running IE8 installer for missing dll... not sure if that did anything
Run BTS 3.19 patch.
Find ScreenHeight and ScreenWidth and set them 1920 1200.
Set NoIntroMovie = 1, AutoSaveInterval = 1, DisableFileCaching = 1, DisableCaching = 1, ModularLoading = 1.
Run BlueMarble all except backgrounds.
Extract 68722-better_bts_ai_1_01.zip, save in C:\...BeyondTheSword\Mods folder (C drive, not MyGames).
Play select advanced->BetterAI.
Helpful guides:
http://daleswanson.blogspot.com/2015/06/civilization-4-on-linux-via-wine.html and
https://www.playonlinux.com/en/topic-10709.html
wine /path/to/windows-executable.exe
WineHQ is a great resource for finding out more about the game you want to run specifically.
PlayOnLinux makes managing Wine and different versions of Wine a breeze, some games may work better with a specific version of wine.
Play On Linux is probably the easiest to use . Here is a list of all the games it has a installer for .
It's not impossible, you just use Wine if you need something strictly Windows. https://www.playonlinux.com/en/ has a good frontend for most common apps and games. I was a Win power user for almost 2 decades, but eventually switched when I realized there isn't really that much missing aside Adobe apps (and those do work with Wine too). I do still use Win10 to stream incompatible games, but that's about it.
The game support is improving with Vulkan and Steam on the scene and it is technically a fantastic system if you are willing to get past the learning curve. Mint with the new default skin and Cinnamon desktop is a really nice looking and polished flavor, especially if you're coming from Windows.
It's Office Pro Plus 2016!
To install it, I used PlayOnLinux, along with this specific guide (https://www.playonlinux.com/en/topic-16677-Test_Microsoft_Office_2016_Installation.html). For the setup files, I used this IMG from Microsoft's servers (https://officecdn.microsoft.com/db/492350F6-3A01-4F97-B9C0-C7C6DDF67D60/media/en-US/ProPlusRetail.img), though you'll need to supply a product key.
After setup finishes, you'll then have to make shortcuts of each Office program via PlayOnLinux
If you have any questions, feel free to ask!
PlayonLinux installers are usually tweaked with specific fixes for each game, so in some cases it would be better to use them, but you can also inspect the scripts themselves, see what fixes they contain and then apply them manually.
The script for Skyrim has some fixes that you can try:
https://www.playonlinux.com/en/source-1005-The_Elder_Scrolls_V__Skyrim.html
By looking at it you can see for example that it needs vcrun2008, dotnet35 and dxfullsetup. Go to Configure> Install Components and install them from there.
The instructions on the WineDB page should be enough to get the game running I'm on windows atm because I've been playing FO4 so I can't double check everything (plus it's 4am here)
It depends. It really does. Honest answer is the vast majority of games will not run as well on linux. This can include artifacts and lack of pre-rendered video support all the way through slightly lesser issues like loss of some features like advanced shaders to lower frame rates. Though often the differences are subtle. In my opinion, and I expect all linux gamers opinion, the losses are worth it. At the same time there are plenty of games that run just as well. For a modest example, years ago in my WOW days, I had a higher frame-rate on linux than my windows boot. That is the rub, I do have a windows boot and I use it when I just cant get it to work on linux.
With the launch of SteamOS we are seeing a vast upswing in native linux ports. If I had a suggestion I would say, keep 7 for a year then take a look at what steam has to offer.
If you want to dive in now, you can run Linux off of a USB as the primary 'drive'. (Note: USB OSs will not be good enough to play games with, though it is really easy to install linux on your hard drive as a secondary OS.) Wine which runs many Windows programs can often require some command line work, playonlinux is a wine GUI wrapper which has pre-built scripts for getting all the required dlls and registry changes for your game (something you may have to do by hand with stand alone wine).
That being said, back to my native KOTOR 2 playthrough!
It depends if you plan to run Windows only games or not.
If the games you play are available natively for Linux (that includes SteamOS of course) then it's as easy as Windows. If you want to play Windows games then it can get a little bit tricky, depends on the game itself.
Most of the popular Windows games like LoL, Hearthstone etc... can be installed via PlayOnLinux, works like a charm for me.
Take a look at PlayOnLinux's game library
If you want to install a game that has no linux support and is not in this list, that's where it gets tricky. You'll have to make your own Wine virtual drive and install all the dependancies yourself. You can find them on sites like WineHQ
It's marked as GOLD in appdb.winehq.org
And it's supported by PlayOnLinux.
https://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-1005-The_Elder_Scrolls_V__Skyrim.html
I'd say give it a try using Wine. Not sure on what performance you could expect. I'd try it myself but my hardware is too weak for Skyrim.
It's been my experience that SC2 plays amazing well under (K)ubuntu with PlayOnLinux ( https://www.playonlinux.com/en/ ) ; you have to change a sysctl env value to allow IPC shared mem but it's well documented on the internets..
An official, native client though would be pretty awesome too.
I know it's a snap package, but will this suffice?: https://snapcraft.io/spider-solitaire
Also, if I do remember correctly, wine comes with solitaire pre-installed, but I may be wrong, since it's been years since I've used wine.
EDIT: PlayOnLinux seems to have it easily available as well: https://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-1285-Microsoft_Spider_Solitaire.html
PlayOnLinux is a wine management tool that is really great for running windows programs where no alternative exists.
Honestly, over the years I've just quit looking at new windows games so I only rarely find a game that I miss, and then I end up getting it later when its ported or someone finds a PlayOnLinux recipe to get it to run.
Almost all of the windows only games (including in Steam) that I look for are a little older and tend to run well on PlayOnLinux.
Don't people have time to read any more?
https://www.playonlinux.com/en/
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PlayOnLinux
http://www.linuxandubuntu.com/home/playonlinux-for-easier-use-of-wine
I use Mint 17 still, and I gotta say, I really love it. Literally the only thing that's keeping me from abandoning Windows entirely is my Steam library and Ableton. It's fast, it's simple, it can be complex if you need it to be, it's got a huge amount of compatible software, etc. It's basically an essential step for people looking to leave Windows, but don't have much/any experience with other OSs, as Mint and Win7 are super similar in their layout.
And about Steam and Ableton, both of those are pretty much moot points. Steam actually has a buuunch of games that will run in debian based distros [Mint, Ubuntu, etc], playonlinux has a great community and constantly growing library, etc. Music production has also crossed over to Linux now, as bitwig has full support. I don't use Bitwig personally, but I've got a buddy that does, and he swears he's never going back. Your mileage may vary.
I've been tweaking the POL script, glad you like the changes! Want to add 64Bit support in, and would love your help testing. Head over to https://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-1126-Guild_Wars_2.html , try out some of the changes, leave some feedback, and keep watch for that 64Bit support!
Want this up and running in SteamOS too.
Yes, like /u/Driftpants said. The versions that come by default with a distro usually don't update much (except for Arch and Gentoo). Some distros have very new packages on the official download page.
If you're mostly looking to play games, I can recommend PlayOnLinux instead of using and upgrading system-wide WINE installations. First I thought this was just a strange and unnecessary GUI, but it turns out I was being ignorant: It makes it very easy to manage different versions of WINE for different products you install, and it gives you a unified configuration system for all of them. You can even switch a game from one WINE version to the other with just two clicks, in case some games run better with a newer WINE and others with an older versions.
The settings system also scales from first-time user to WINE expert with a need to fine-tune all the things.
1.7.55 is available on PlayOnLinux today (on any installed Windows thing in PlayOnLinux' menu, click Configure -> WINE version and press the little + next to the version to download and install a new one).
Edit: Who downvoted the original question? It's a valid question, WINE does lag behind a lot on most distros, like any package would whose source gets updated so frequently. And it's not trivial or immediately obvious how to get a newer version without messing up your system, figuring out a good source of packages or compiling your own.
Agreed... Running native software is always better. He wants League though, which does not natively run on Linux. Wine is his closest shot in playing League of Legends on Linux. Unless we get Riot to port their game natively.
Looks like the PlayOnLinux League of Legends launcher has had a recent update, along with some good reviews. While not guaranteed, could be of some help in getting it running.
Credit to timbunti and Krock for getting this to work
This does actually get into the game, I don't show it in the video, I have been playing for almost a day just fine, no crashes, freezes, performance issues.
It requires a UnityPlayer.dll modification with 3 commands and DXVK, required changes linked in the above thread, video, and video description/comments.
I haven't installed league on Linux since ... like 2013, but at the time I installed it through PlayOnLinux. Its basically a wine launcher that sets specific wine environments for every game you install. Wine has a lot of different versions, and branches. Sometimes a game will work better on the latest version of an older branch (like 1.9.3) than it will on the newest branch version (like 2.2.1). PoL keep a database of tested versions that get the most solid performance and install that version for the game you wish to play.
Its entirely possible that you can install SC through that as well. I haven't booted up in Linux on my home desktop in a really long time though.
All I can do is offer links to the GoG version Fallout 2 entries at WineHQ and PlayonLinux as starting points.
To say that Wine has a learning curve is like saying that Mars has low humidity. Wine has a backward leaning cliff: it can be conquered, but you'll have to hang in there.
I wish I could be more helpful, I really do. Best of luck. Do please let us know if you get it working, and what fixed it for you.
Playonlinux has a script for Origin so presumably it works via Wine. Have you had specific problems getting it working that you can't find solutions to?
There are not many games that you won't get to run on Linux. I'm a hardcore gamer and I'm using solely Linux for my deeds.
Even setting up the games is getting more and more easy. Forget about "wow, I must be professional hacker to even boot the system", if you're thinking this.
For my games only Battlefield 4 won't work in my Linux setup. I haven't tried much about it, but I don't think I have big chances. Other than that, my games are running fine. If not better!
So the one thing you may do before switching is simply search the net (PoL is mostly the fastest source) and find out if the games that you really need to survive are running. If they do, switch. :)
Bonus: You will also find out, that Linux itself will be a game for you where you want to achieve the best coming out. :D
There are windows compatibility layers including CrossOver and WINE while currently they only support DX9 and earlier, CrossOver will be getting an update to fully support DX11, which they've also submitted to WINE. Also PlayOnLinux is a great front end for wine.
I tried it, but wasn't quite satisfied with the performance.
I used Play on Linux which has specially patched wine versions and stuff for many games, also for PoE. It worked relatively well, had to make a few changes to production_Config.ini to get higher resolutions to work (Enable Virtual Desktop in Wine, then set Fullscreen and the same resolution as the virtual desktop in the poe config [i'm using an exotic window manager though]).
It worked, but yeah, framedrops...
No, that won't work. Just as you can't run Mac apps on Windows, or an Android app on iPhone, so you can't run a Windows app on Linux. (There are a few exceptions via Wine, but it's unreliable at best. If you want to try Wine, look at PlayOnLinux, which hides some of the complexity of Wine.)
Either sign up for the online version of Office 365, which will work from a normal browser (including on Linux), or use a Linux-compatible alternative such as LibreOffice.
If that fails you can check playonlinux as the have a ton of GOG install scripts there as well...
> 5. WINE install. I have tried it several times and just can't seem to get it right lol. Stuff like this is the only thing I wish Linux would make a tad easier... but I love learning new stuff so it won't be bad once I get it done correctly.
Install "PlayOnLinux" if you want to use Wine for typical office software or games. While it's oriented toward gaming (and installs its menu shortcut to Menu>Games>) it automates a lot of the commonly-troublesome Wine installs of Windows programs. Even for non-listed programs it's super handy. In a nutshell, it creates a separate and closely-tuned /c/ drive subfolder for each application set. The cost is that this is slightly wasteful of disk space, but the benefit is that most stuff "just works."
here's a good intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPlQR_nWhaE
and decent documentation: https://www.playonlinux.com/en/dev-documentation-1.html
It's quirky but I've been able to get it working consistently.
DO NOT USE the click2run version. it will fail every time. (the click2run is a tiny exe, you need the full ISO)
use this script: https://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-2665-Microsoft_Office_2013.html
I was having a problem with it after a steam update messed up my current install; the 22 October 2016 install script worked perfectly even though the normal one wasn't.
https://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-1005-The_Elder_Scrolls_V_Skyrim.html
eh I don't think that's the whole reason, Windows 7 market share has been rising since before PUBG became popular. Also, here you have a list of games that are supported in playinlinux(basically wine but more user friendly). And using the VM with gpu passthrough basically 100% of the games available on pc run on linux.
Not always, but usually. There's a large and growing list of steam games that run natively on Linux, including all Valve titles, Rocket League, most Total War games, most Paradox games, most Sid Meiers games, Borderlands, Bioshock, XCOM... and lots of Windows DX games run in WINE but not all of them.
Steam has a list of Linux titles here
And here is a list of Windows-only titles that run through WINE on Linux
Edit: there is also a more complex option recently available called VM GPU Passthrough, it's a lot more complex subject but modern hardware lets you share your GPU between a host (Linux) and a guest (Windows) on the same machine at the same time, so that you can run Windows exclusive software directly on the graphics hardware without emulation, and while keeping Windows in a sandbox and not giving it complete control of your system.
Hmm...It gets a gold rating on the appDB, so it should run nearly perfectly.
Also, one of the testers (Heron) at AppDB describes using Winetricks when installing it.
Are you using PlayOnLinux?
Linux is MUCH simpler and easier to use that Windows.
There is a little complication if you want to run windows software on it, and only several hundred of the most popular apps are supported.
Then again it gets pretty complex if you want to run Linux apps on Windows.
Aside from the obvious Xonotic and SuperTuxKart (both great multiplayer FOSS games), let's look at the top games on Steam right now. Dota2- Linux version, CS:GO- Linux version, TF2- Linux version, Civ V- Linux version, ARK- Linux version, Football Manager 2016- Linux version, Garry's Mod- Linux version, Rust- Linux version, GTAV- No Linux, Rocket League- Soon™. 8 out of the top 10 games have a Linux version. 80% of popular things isn't bad. My Linux indie library is looking pretty good too. It's not like there's nothing to play on linux. Speaking of which, easy no dicking around WINE installs: https://www.playonlinux.com/en/supported_apps-1-0.html
I'm a gamer as well, and in my experience you have to start thinking similar to console gamers and think about purchases in this order:
1) Is this on my platform?
2) Is it worth buying?
If you want to go down the Windows-only games on Ubuntu route, I would heavily recommend PlayOnLinux over any sort of Windows VM or emulation. If you have any questions about PlayOnLinux, drivers, gaming or whatever, shoot me a message. Been gaming on Ubuntu for about 6 years now and things are 1000x easier than they used to be, but there are still a few traps.
Number one trap for people switching from Windows to Linux is installing software, by the way. You should use the Ubuntu Software Centre whenever possible, and avoid downloading random executables from sites (the way installing software on Windows works).
It is possible but there's an easier way than doing it manually, and the good people of PlayOnLinux just did that. From the interface, you can choose which wine version you want to run Oblivion with and use other versions for your other games, among other things.
It doesn't look it works any good with wine, but how about using PlayOnLinux (or in your case, PlayOnMac, I presume) ? It is basically a Wine frontend with some automated scripts that should make installing easier.
Some info:
https://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-1585-PlanetSide_2.html
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=27109
I haven't tried but AFAIK just transfer the files is not enough (it's not enough on windows either if you do a os reinstall) you have to run the setup first (block the download as soon as it starts and then paste the files you copied on the external drive).
Using wine directly requires some experience but there are front ends to it that make it a lot easier. Have a look at PlayOnLinux.
You can definitely shoehorn Arch on and you can tweak it to your exact requirements performance wise BUT it fails your noob-friendly test. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acer_C720_Chromebook
I'd suggest going with something Ubuntu based for simplicity, but Xubuntu instead of Ubuntu because it's lighter. This seems to be something for you to investigate: https://www.distroshare.com/distros/get/81/
Even after you've spent all day forcing linux to install against Acers wishes, you then have to contend with Wine. I'd suggest going with a packaged version of wine rather than the latest official release for simplicity, something like PlayOnLinux: https://www.playonlinux.com/en/download.html
A little investigation there will provide you with instructions to add the playonlinux repo which means any updates will happen automatically as part of the system.
I personally wouldn't recommend Puppy Linux, it's designed for installation on a USB key so that you can plug it into any computer where ever you happen to be for a generic "safe" environment. It's unlikely to be easily configured to your requirements.
I play the game almost exclusively on Linux through Wine. Issues so far are obviously worse performance, "Out of Memory" crashes after a while during loading times (or huge resources loads like opening the tailor), and not being able to see the Crystaline Entity in CCA (no idea why). Over the last few days I've been playing on Windows and gotten "Device lost" errors (what the hell) randomly during gameplay so it's not too bad to play on Linux (I'd rather crash before an STF than during an STF, and I could deal with the performance drop if I bothered turning down the graphics a bit).
A Linux port probably won't happen. I think the Mac port is just the Windows client bundled with Crossover anyway. And they barely bother keeping it working apparently (I've noticed a few complains from Mac users every once in a while). So don't get your hopes up for that, there's too few of us and it would be too costly/time consuming for Cryptic to do it.
That being said, I don't understand how you can't play the game on Wine. I had no issues getting it working. Check on Wine AppDB to see if you can find help getting it working (disregard the last two reviews saying it's garbage, and jump to the Silver one which is closer to my own experience).
You could also try using Play On Linux which is essentially a tool to make using Wine easier, doing a bunch of stuff for you. If you're having trouble you probably want to try that one. I personally don't use it since I'm not always exactly sure what POL does (it have settings I never found in Wine, like setting a Graphics Memory Limit), and I'd rather do stuff my way.
I was hoping to let PlayOnLinux do all the work for me when I eventually do decide to play the Deus Ex games. I don't think I am too much of a graphics enthusiast as I played and beat Half-Life for the first time less than a year ago.
Wine stand for "Wine Is Not an Emulator", not "Windows Emulation". You aren't emulating windows games. It doesn't only support Windows games. It support applications (games is a subsec) of Windows and allow them to be ran on Linux, Mac OSX, and BSD.
It is essentially a wrapper between the Windows API and your system. Since this is not an emulator, you aren't having any penalty on performance or memory. Obviously, it doesn't run as good as natively.
The project can be found here WineHQ.
What you mean is probably PlayOnLinux which is different. It's based on Wine and it makes installation and configuration of Windows application easier.
Hey thank you for your advice!
Yeah I totally agree for the sync mechanism, Java won't help a lot for that point. It was more just to give some example about what kind of issues we can have, people are not always aware of.
Obviously, I still have a lot of learn about Python good practices. For the bug tracker, I totally agree with you. The integration of the bug tracker with PlayOnLinux 4 was a terrible mistake that spoiled everything. We are now going to rely on Github's bug tracker for all the developement issues, which should help a lot.
Just so that you can see, here is the current class diagram of POLv5:
https://www.playonlinux.com/images/diagram.jpg
(I wouldn't have written that in C++, whatever people are saying)
Of course it can appear to be a little overkill, but packages that are separating everything are not represented here. When you look closely, you realise that every code handled in those class is implemented somewhere in current POLv4's version. You can imagine what mess it is :/
> Java refactoring is easier to automate, because everything is so insanely rigid
And this is exactly what I'm looking for. A very rigid (but accessible) language :)
Yes your drivers will pretty much have to be the opensource ones ( search for the edgers ppa OR oibaf ppa (more cutting edge )
that is definitely going to cause some issues with Arma im sure, however there is catalyst .. its not totally consistent and of course Arma is a monster gpu level game., ohh and give Mint 17.1 Cinnamon 64bit a go first, it has given me the least headaches.
Is there any way you can obtain an Nvidia GPU ? I know it sounds odd but in the long run until the next gen AMD drivers are out with Vulcan ( which doenst cover your card sadly ) you will be MUCH better off :)
https://www.playonlinux.com/en/
^ download direct from the website
Well, Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, and Skyrim are supported by playonlinux and DayZ has some good and bad ratings on WineHQ.
Before you decide whether you want to switch you can try a live CD of a distro.
Edit: Actually, I'd recommend trying out distros in a Virtual Machine instead so that you can actually install stuff.
Try PlayOnLinux, it uses Wine but installs different versions of Wine locally, that shouldn't be visible system wide. It's much safer and means you can experiment much more with different Wine versions (such as the CSMT patched version which gives better FPS in some games). Vanilla Wine is good, I use it for small Windows apps sometimes, but I wouldn't recommend it for gaming if you're a beginner.
PlayOn doesn’t use Winehq packages it uses it’s own packages you can grab them from https://www.playonlinux.com/wine/binaries/phoenicis/
When everything gets finalized for official Winehq macOS packages they will lightly only work on 10.13+ anyway.
PlayOnLinux has such
https://www.playonlinux.com/wine/binaries/phoenicis
path
The .pol files are just renamed .zip files
https://www.playonlinux.com/en/supported_apps-1-0.html
find your game and click the button, the rest handles itself unless you have a bad driver. check what GPU you have and what's available
https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Configure_Graphics_Cards or use the GUI: Manjaro Settings Manager -> Hardware Detection
yes they ar not complete...
https://www.playonlinux.com/en/supported_apps-3-0.html
if office 2010 or lower works for you, you should try
Hi,
I would happily include PlayOnLinux, but from what I could find the site is a little broken. Clicking the donate link, for example, takes me to a blank page. I'll happily update the guide if you have some resource recommendations.
> Well, not every game is on steam.
Hence my statement:
> There are some games that require more work (or don't work at all), but it is no longer "most."
There's also PlayOnLinux and Lutris. My attitude is that I'll try the easy/default installation script for each of the three, and if none of them work easily, I'll just find a different game to play.
Otherwise, if developers can't be bothered to earn my business by making their game work in Linux, that's their loss, not mine. There are plenty of other games to spend my time with, and I've got enough basic self-respect not to prostrate myself to Microsoft just to play their shit.
This may help? Someone else may chime in who’s more knowledgable.
Have you tried PlayOnLinux before? I used to use it for playing Diablo 2 LoD years ago.
How about this, let’s try to get something working and work from there. Has anyone gotten any version of space engineers working (or any piece of it for example getting the splash screen to show up)
If you get something to work, let’s post it along with what - distro - wine version - any potential workarounds - wine tricks - configs - gpu type/driver version
I just tested and neither the latest (1.187.1) nor compatibility dx9-32 bit launch at all in ubuntu with proton through steam I was running on a amd gpu (either rx460 or rx560)
Edit some links i found on google https://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-2628-Space_Engineers.html
- for old dx9 version https://old.reddit.com/r/spaceengineers/comments/2cvktb/linux_space_engineers_rejoice_se_now_works_100_in/cjs7wcm/ this implies that, at the time of posting it worked for version 1.042
Pop OS is a Linux OS.
Here's a list of games that could work on Linux : https://lgdb.org/games
The Disks you buy, is meant for Windows, and thus will need Wine to work.
PlayOnLinux uses Wine to run Windows programs.
(Yes, Wine can be Glitchy)
On the topic of native linux gaming I would recommend Ubuntu or Mint, for their superior game and driver support (I otherwise hate them and all their design choices), with full disk encryption (Always recommended and all good distros have support for it).
Any other "apt" based distro should work after some finnagling and other distros work most of the time but may require tonnes of work when a dependency is missing that only exists as a .deb file... (Note that this is rarely an issue with steam!) I have myself played a fair deal on Arch but would recommend an "apt" distro for gaming.
Loose tip: https://www.playonlinux.com/en/ A tool that helps with WINE.
(With the hardware you describe viritualising is pointless whilst WINE could help some.)
As I do not want my account to get banned, I sent a ticket to the support and the response they gave me was that wine shouldn't be an issue and if it happened to be an issue, players should get in touch with them. I would advise you all to send a ticket like I did if you got banned to raise awareness of this anti-cheat bug.
Here's the response from the support :
> june 9 2018, 2:44:21 pm > > Hello Redmaster252, > > While we don’t strictly condemn the use of third-party modifications, these programs can be dangerous and worthy of suspension where they violate our Terms of Use. I can’t tell you whether a particular third-party modification is against our Terms of Use or not, but you can follow these general guidelines: > > We identify and suspend accounts for using third-party programs intended to offer a competitive advantage by affecting gameplay in any way > We cannot control what a third-party developer makes or changes, so a program that was once acceptable may have versions which violate the Terms of Use > Some third-party developers may not have your best interests in mind, so please be aware that these types of files can contain keyloggers, viruses, and malware. > Third-party modifications may affect your game in unexpected ways, so if you’re having technical issues, try uninstalling these programs before doing anything else. > > However, we have not heard issues with people playing the game on WINE or PlayonLinux. If such issues were to occur, I would advise those players to reach out to us, so we can look into it. You can check out their software & get help from their communities below: > > PlayOnLinux: https://www.playonlinux.com/en/ > WINE: https://www.winehq.org/ > > Let me know if you have any questions! > > Best regards
Same here. Apparently the new steam update broke something -- doesn't work in my Linux setup either. I haven't tried, but someone has suggested a (rather complicated) solution here, if PlayOnMac uses wine.
I'm not sure you can install software using the live cd. I would suggest to use a live usb bootable instead. Anyway keep in mind that testing software from live cd/usb will affect your experience due to lack of reactivity. Have a look to playonlinux, it allows you to install and run several windows games and softwares and it works pretty good. "The Sims" is in the official supported software list. Anyway the dual boot suggestion is the best option imo.
on the PlayOnLinux page, someone provided an updated script with the new url for the downloads (should be the first, most recent comment); copy pasting the new version in a text file and running it throught PoL's "tools > execute a local script" should work for your initial issue. (it may not resolve my problem but I'm trying a reinstall from scratch)
Will post the result in the morning or something.
Hm.. can't get it to run at the moment. I played through whole Doom before on 2.0-rc5.
At first i was running into this issue: https://www.playonlinux.com/en/issue-5476.html
Tried 2.8-staging and 2.9-staging now without success.
Hello, not a commoner of this sub but this seems like the appropiate place to ask.
I want to play Neverwinter on Linux. Up until 3rd march, that was easily possible trough wine. But since then they have dropped Dx9 support.
It seems however that game is still able to run on wine-staging with Dx11. I have seen several users on both official and unofficial forums confirm that. PlayOnLinux page of the game also says it works: https://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-2505-Neverwinter_Online.html
What all these confirmations have in common is that they all seem to have Nvidia GPUs. Unfortunately I only have the integrated Intel GPU and when I try to launch the game over wine, it says my gpu doesn't support Dx11. I know for a fact that it does, because the game runs fine dual booting into windows.
My question is, has anyone had a similar experience running Dx11 games on Intel GPU trough wine? Is there anything you could recommend?
Sounds good. I hope that /u/joeyelijah will also mention that (near as I can tell, but I may be wrong) the final release of Wine 2.0 is available for download and use with PlayOnLinux, which would avoid lots of hassles.
I use PlayOnLinux, so I'm more of a noob with Wine than you are. Maybe you need to delete the previous version of Wine? But that's just a guess. But don't delete anything unless you're willing to experiment.
As for PlayOnLinux, which can be installed from Ubuntu Software, Wine 2.0 is available for download and use.
I've not tried this myself with SC4, but have you tried using PlayOnLinux? It can help you install Windows programs using Wine, and SC4 is apparently supported.
> I really want to know if i can play games like heroes of might and magic 3, fallout 1, red alert 2, bassically 90's and even early 00's games on my laptop again.
POL downloads individual Wine versions as it needs them and can load them for certain prefixes, or it can rely on your system's wine package. I do know that Wine versions such as 1.6 give driver errors on some systems and upgrading is the only way to fix them. I took it upon myself to upgrade offending scripts. The original Fallout's script had this problem.
UPDATE: I am able to watch streams in Firefox through PlayOnLinux (wine). Obviously not native or optimal, but it does work.
To install Firefox:
- Install PlayOnLinux
- In PlayOnLinux, click the "Install" button, select the "Internet" category, then select "Mozilla Firefox" and click "Install"
- When given the option to install the Flash player, don't select it (we'll need a newer version)
- Follow all of the other prompts
To install the flash player:
Grab the installer:
wget http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/22.0.0.209/install_flash_player.exe
In PlayOnLinux, click "Configure"
Select "MozillaFirefox" in the list on the left, select the "Miscellaneous" tab and click "Run a .exe file in this virtual drive"
Find the "install_flash_player.exe" you downloaded earlier and run it
Select the "Wine" tab and click the "Windows reboot" button
> You want full control, use Linux. for 90% of the world, it would just work. There are instances where Linux can't be used, software that won't run, things that need to be done. but overall, it just works.
People using Linux can use quite a lot of windows software and games on it, if that is what floats their boat.
Xubuntu is a great distro! I've been on it since 14.04 in 2014, and it has been a great introduction into linux-based systems after mainlining Windows 7. A lot of my Steam library runs on Linux too.
If you're going into Wine, let me insist you use playOnLinux. It organises and manages a lot of the more gritty details of Wine, especially if you're going to be running the Windows version of Steam. And as said earlier, appdb is your friend - just google wine appdb [game name] to get a page detailing how well that game runs in Wine.
I recommend you try out some of the suggested operating systems here in a virtual machine before making any major installations.
Yeah looks like it changed... HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/Drivers from what I see on the winehq. I found the playonlinux script LeLoyon mentioned https://www.playonlinux.com/en/topic-14040-Script_Rocksmith_2014_Steam.html and it should set up the audio for alsa. Also you have to change Win32UltraLowLatencyMode and ExclusiveMode to 0 in the rocksmith ini.
well just install playonlinux and then use it to install league, it has script for that (I even modified it for PBE).
https://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-1135-League_Of_Legends.html
My only issue apart from store (which you can work around) is, that sometimes after game ends, the right part of client is cut off and you can't do anything about it. If you continue to play next game, bottom gets cut off. But that is minor issue fixed by restarting client.
Sorry if I'm late but I have a fix. Jumba898 from this thread gave it to me: https://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-1135-League_Of_Legends.html
Here's what he says: >Recommendations to fix problems with patcher and other issues.
>First off after installing, switch to wine version 1.9.7-staging, This seems to fix many issues, including in-client right clicking.
>Next turn off swap, some people are having memory leak issues, this helps.
>Start up the league patcher. Click on the options cog on the top right of it, and uncheck allow peer to peer. This solves some errors.
>It will take a long time to install and will need to have constant connection. Applying patches takes forever, unless you are on an SSD it should take a very long time.
>Next. The big one, the in-client store has issues, but they can be fixed. Anytime you log in, immediately click on your profile, go to champions and click on a champion. Wait a moment, the skin price and champ price should show up. Now you can click on the store icon.
>The RP purchasing is slow and there is no real good way to deal with this sadly.
Search for the games you are looking to see if they work on wine on the appDB https://appdb.winehq.org/
Sometimes playonlinux https://www.playonlinux.com/en/ might have a script to set a particular game up, but it doesn't for those two games.
Well.. if you look here: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=31796 you see it is a VERY problematic thing in Wine in general.
In Crossover it is rated as "not working" https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/crossover/tera
And here as well: https://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-1724-Tera_Online.html
So basically... it fails/crashes for pretty much everyone.
Sorry if that was a bit cloudy, I didn't mean that Blizzard is doing a special build of their game, but rather WINE has some special builds of the WINE software specifically targeted to run the games mentioned.
For LoL it appears to be named 1.9.2-LeagueOfLegends5 and include some staging patches, for WoW it seems to be a regular 1.7.29.
Back in the days there was a specific patch set for both games which enabled some API functions necessary to run them on WINE, but it seems that the patches are now mostly included in the mainline WINE releases.
While I think that Crossover is a great tool, for my limited needs (mainly excel and word plus few outlook for opening pst files) Play on Linux makes MS Office 2010 decently running - the installation process is pretty close to the one presented in the article.
A lot of games on Steam now runs natively on linux so if the games you play are listed there, you don't have to do anything other than install and run Steam like normal. (If you own the game on Steam of course)
If you want to run Windows based games, they are hit and miss. You can use software like Wine or PlayOnLinux (which also uses Wine and may be easier to understand) to install and run Windows games on linux.
For games and software that works near flawlessly in Wine, all you have to do is to install the software via Wine. If the game does not work or has issues, you can google "game_name Wine" and see if there are any solutions to fix the issue.
Both Wine and PlayOnLinux requires some command line knowledge but you will find most of what you need explained in the how-to and wikis on their websites.
It's Wine with automated install scripts that has a per-app installation script. It automatically downloads the best revision of Wine for the application, applies registry hacks and such, and keeps apps separated. Here's CS6'S install script: https://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-2316-Adobe_Photoshop_CS6.html
This looks like one way to go. Not sure how well it works as I've never tried it, personally.
Edit: This thread might be helpful too.
Keep in mind that Wine is not a perfect solution. Sometimes it works perfectly and other times it fails in odd ways
You have three primary options with Wine:
- vanilla Wine. https://www.winehq.org (available with your distro by default)
- PlayOnLinux Wine: https://www.playonlinux.com/en/ (available in the community repositories or can be pulled from the website)
- Codeweavers Crossover: https://www.codeweavers.com (only available through the website)
Check your apps against all three (you can search your apps on each website) Sometimes you will find an app works better in one vs the others.
Codeweavers Crossover is a paid application. The company is the primary developer of and contributor to Wine.
There ya go! https://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-1126.html#contributions
Backup your .dat file, and try a re-install. Choose amd64 on installation! The .dat file works on both x86 and amd64. Post back on POL! :-)
As /u/revofrd says, PlayOnLinux works like a charm.
I have been using it for some time and other than reduced performance I had no problems whatsoever.
Btw, Steam has a native linux client now, works great and has over a thousand games, some of them are even good.
And it's a major pain in the ass to set up correctly. Play on Linux may be of help, dunno. Wasn't all that great when I played around with it, but I haven't tried gaming on Linux in years.
"I fixed this by opening regedit and deleting wininet key from:
'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\DllOverrides'
Make a backup or something before deleting the key."
thanks for the link, i managed to get it working with this workaround
>1) Launch Battle.net > >2) Leave the window with the error message open > >3) Launch Battle.net again > >It's a strange workaround, but it worked for me every time so far.
Just saying, for most people "gaming" means waiting every year for the new versions of the same three games they're playing.
The mentioned not-AAA games do work in WINE, so why list them? Magicka and Rocket League work perfectly for me. Can't tell about Ori. Evolve got a running alpha test for Linux which looks perfect.
I did not say that everything's fine and Linux is superior in gaming than other OS. Indeed, every OS has some problems with some games. You shouldn't either use Windows as the benchmark, except you DO use AAA as the gaming reference.
In fact I've said this:
> So the one thing you may do before switching is simply search the net (PoL is mostly the fastest source) and find out if the games that you really need to survive are running. If they do, switch. :)
And to all that may say "I don't want to wait another 6 months that I can play this rad game": If a game really would have been this good, it would be also good in 6 months. Otherwise this would be just "hopping from one pre-purchase to another", like my circle of friends is doing. They spend more time on games than me, but I don't consider this as gaming.
//EDIT: Read it again and it sounded a little bit toxic. That shouldn't be my intention, sorry if it is understanded that way.
PlayOnLinux is a great way to test different versions of Wine with a single click. Just download them ahead of time from the Wine Manager. PlayOnLinux even has a bunch of patched versions of Wine and Wine-staging versions available. Dotnet 20, 30 and 35 have allays been stubborn with Wine. Any dotnet before 40 requires that scope ptrace command to be run in the Terminal first. Otherwise it complains and won't install.
Her you go: https://appdb.winehq.org/ .. you can check the wine version, specs and additional patches used for any game reviewed with all the info regarding performance and an overall rating (being Platinum and Gold the ones with windows parity)
That said, I'd strongly recommend you to use PlayOnLinux as it automatically config and set up any game/application listed in their DB.
I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but as an alternative to plain old wine (which you have to configure yourself--and depending on the game, recompile with special patches) I would recommend PlayOnLinux. It automates the entire wine process for you. You just type in the name of the game (or app) and if it's already in the library, it will autodownload the best version of wine suitable for your app (even special versions that need patches), add any required packages for you (vcrun2010, corefonts, whatever). In the end, you just need to double click on your app icon in the PlayOnLinux window (or PoL can make application launchers for you that can show up in your application menu so you don't even need to open PoL).
I don't know if you use steam a lot, but that is where the majority of my game library is. I just tell PoL to install steam (it'll do it for me) and than just about every app in Steam will work without problem (for the most part). Very little extra work needed on your part.