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This is my method for GOG and other offline installers.
To run the installer, I use GE-Proton9-27. Something happened with Wine 10 and some installers completely freeze after a few seconds. Wine 9 still works well enough.
Create a directory for the game’s prefix:
mkdir -p /path/to/game/prefix
Then run the installer with Proton (assuming you’ve installed GE-Proton into Steam’s compatibilitytools.d directory):
I like having my games installed outside the prefix (e.g. another directory mounted as the G: drive, or an absolute path in Z:), but for some reason, lettered drives other than C: are mounted as some kind of union filesystem where changes are only written into memory. If you want to have a game outside the prefix, you’ll still have to install it to C: and move the directory afterwards.
You’ll then have to set up a launcher to manage and launch the actual game. I recommend Faugus Launcher, but Heroic and Lutris are also options. The two most important fields to set are the prefix and the executable path. In Faugus and Lutris, you can set those paths when you add the game. Heroic creates a separate prefix by default, but you can set the prefix math manually in some sub-menu.
You can select the latest Proton (or GE-Proton) to run the games, downgrading to Wine 9 was only necessary for the installer.
Thank you for the detailed response and the call not to delete the thread.
Too many posts are being deleted after being answered. Lemmy isn’t (just) for free answers; it’s meant eventually to be a knowledge base, like all forums.
In general, you don’t need to install or update DirectX since it’s implemented outside Wine through dxvk or vkd3d. For other components (e.g. .NET or Visual C++), you should use Winetricks to automate the process:
List available components:
WINEPREFIX=/path/to/game/prefix winetricks dlls list
The used components depend on the game - during installation, write down the things the installer wants to Install (big ones are visual c, which is normally called vcrun<endyear> and .Net - dotnet<ver> , ignore DirectX). Old games might need additional things (common things include gdiplus and different codecs)
For troubleshooting, select “verbose logs” in the game settings, run it and then on the left hand side go to the general heroic settings to view the logs.
Do not delete the thread if this answers your question.
This is my method for GOG and other offline installers.
To run the installer, I use GE-Proton9-27. Something happened with Wine 10 and some installers completely freeze after a few seconds. Wine 9 still works well enough.
Create a directory for the game’s prefix:
mkdir -p /path/to/game/prefixThen run the installer with Proton (assuming you’ve installed GE-Proton into Steam’s
compatibilitytools.ddirectory):Then install the games to the C: drive.
I like having my games installed outside the prefix (e.g. another directory mounted as the G: drive, or an absolute path in Z:), but for some reason, lettered drives other than C: are mounted as some kind of union filesystem where changes are only written into memory. If you want to have a game outside the prefix, you’ll still have to install it to C: and move the directory afterwards.
You’ll then have to set up a launcher to manage and launch the actual game. I recommend Faugus Launcher, but Heroic and Lutris are also options. The two most important fields to set are the prefix and the executable path. In Faugus and Lutris, you can set those paths when you add the game. Heroic creates a separate prefix by default, but you can set the prefix math manually in some sub-menu.
You can select the latest Proton (or GE-Proton) to run the games, downgrading to Wine 9 was only necessary for the installer.
Thank you for the detailed response and the call not to delete the thread.
Too many posts are being deleted after being answered. Lemmy isn’t (just) for free answers; it’s meant eventually to be a knowledge base, like all forums.
Thanks, should I uncheck update directx and install c++ in fitgirl installer?
In general, you don’t need to install or update DirectX since it’s implemented outside Wine through dxvk or vkd3d. For other components (e.g. .NET or Visual C++), you should use Winetricks to automate the process:
List available components:
To install a component (e.g. Visual C++ 2015):
The problem is, I don’t know what’s needed for each game.
I mostly was doing something similar to your guide but games just don’t run after installing them. I hit run and nothing happens
The used components depend on the game - during installation, write down the things the installer wants to Install (big ones are visual c, which is normally called vcrun<endyear> and .Net - dotnet<ver> , ignore DirectX). Old games might need additional things (common things include gdiplus and different codecs)
For troubleshooting, select “verbose logs” in the game settings, run it and then on the left hand side go to the general heroic settings to view the logs.