besides wine, what do you need to run non-steam games? - eviltoast

From my understanding, at least one other necessary component is dxvk, and that wine is not enough.

If I dont use lutris or some other manager, how can I game on linux? do I have to configure dxvk? do I need soemthing else too? vulkan?

Is there a guide that explains it?

  • Sethayy@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    1 year ago

    If you don’t mind me asking, how would one go about diagnosing why a game/mod doesn’t work?

    Specifically im working on nitrox for subnautica, which does some DLL funkery - but has reports of users getting it working on older editions, and radio silence for the later. I figured out from a reddit post that a ribbon.DLL was needed, to even boo the launcher (and the error code was pretty descriptive about it). Once it’s added the launcher doesn’t ever actually launch the game though, and the console is pretty radio silent about it all.

    Again ignore all this if youre unsure/busy, but any tips are appreciated!

    • Astaroth@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 year ago

      Why a game (unmodded) doesn’t work will usually be pretty obvious just from the errors you get

      I might’ve just been lucky, but so far the only time I had to look up a fix was for battle.net launcher, which ever since a while back has to be done after every update.

      https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/yairmz/battlenet_fails_to_start_with_this_application/ituht4u/

      The problem is in a hidden flag that’s set on the qwindows.dll file in lastest B.net version which makes it hidden from the app.

      The fix is relatively easy, simply run this inside the Program Files (x86)/Battle.net/Battle.net.13801/platforms directory:

      setfattr -x user.DOSATTRIB qwindows.dll

      After this Battle.net will work again.

       

      But when it comes to mods it can be a lot trickier, and I don’t really have a general purpose solution. Hopefully the game is popular enough that someone else has a guide on what to do.

      I’ve never played subnautica so I don’t know, but if the mods have their own modified DLLs then you’re probably supposed to use DLLOVERRIDES, so maybe WINEDLLOVERRIDES="ribbon=n,b" since it’s called ribbon.dll

       

      Some other issues I’ve had with modding is that the mod might expect the game to be in a certain directory or for directories to have certain names or there might be some problem because Windows isn’t case sensitive while Linux is.

      Honestly the mods are generally not causing issues from my experience, it’s the mod loaders and what not.