wine-staging VS lutris

Now you can't just go from vanilla WINE to WINE Staging by installing stuff. You would have to patch the source code of WINE with all those patches: https://github.com/wine-staging/wine-staging/tree/master/patches and then compile it yourself.

Read this for more info: https://wiki.winehq.org/Wine-Staging

I've got the source from here and applied the patch as it says here

vkd3d-proton: - occasional upstream pending patches wine: - uses proton's bleeding edge wine base: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/wine/tree/experimental-wine-bleeding-edge-7.0-20190-20220716-pe79367-w7a9d8c-d5aa943-v5b7313 - adds wine-staging on top of it: https://github.com/wine-staging/wine-staging/tree/master/patches - adds FSR patches on top of it: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/blob/master/patches/proton/48-proton-fshack\_amd\_fsr.patch - adds a handful of other game fixes on top of it: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/blob/e01207aafe539d8d3ed49301665da717340e4c1d/patches/protonprep-valve-staging.sh#L295 - removes the proton-specific steamclient changes so that it works as a normal wine build: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/blob/master/patches/proton/0001-De-steamify-proton-s-WINE-so-it-can-be-used-as-a-sta.patch ffmpeg: - we enable some codecs not available in steam's ffmpeg gstreamer: - we enable some codecs not available in steam's gstreamer protonfixes: - these are python scripts that automate installing various winetricks and/or other per-game tweaks. this achieves the same thing most lutris installers perform. -------------------------

USE "HOMEBREW" https://brew.sh/ Or "MACPORTS" https://www.macports.org/ As subsystem or wrapper to help wine to be stable. I trying homebrew for a week right now with many versions of wine ( stable & bev , etc The fastest WINE wrapper updated is WINE STAGING. 🍷 https://github.com/wine-staging/wine-staging

Install Wine Staging and winetricks. Then create a new 64 bit prefix. You can run winetricks for this.

It's possible there's blockers for it not being updated, but you can also get a general idea as to how long updates on Fedora's end takes by comparing the dates on that site to the releases on Staging's GitHub.

These patches are missing: https://github.com/wine-staging/wine-staging/tree/master/patches/winepulse-PulseAudio_Support

FFXI should run fine on Steam Deck as it's reported as Gold in ProtonDB but, as I'm used to play the game on Windows, it can be fully enhanced/HD remastered with a lot of graphical and QOL community mods (Ref. here) which are all based on Windower - This is probably a core issue for the SD trying to run this third party/"dll injector". After having a chat with Windower support on Discord, I found out that the main issue is this commit in Wine. Now it would be great to know if this commit will be included in the Proton build used by the SD - Keeping it short: Proton is basically Valve's implementation of Wine. I'm definitely going to try this as soon as I have my hands on the SD as FFXI is still such a great/unique MMORPG and I would also suggest to check it out to everyone having a few friends to bring in.

Source: git mirror's contributor graphs located at wine-staging.

You can get Lutris: It's an open source launcher that you login into with GOG account and it will download the games and wrap them with Wine, similar to Steam.

https://lutris.net/

For "normal" games you could look yourself using ProtonDB regarding every game released on Steam and AreWeAntiCheatYet for most multiplayer games. If a game isn't available on Steam you have three possibilities. First if it's available on GOG, Epic Games or Amazon Gaming, you could use the Heroic Games Launcher. Second you could try to run the launchers through Steam itself using once again Proton. Third you could try installing it with a script or tutorial in Lutris or Bottles.

Can I suggest you head over to the lutris.net site and follow the link the lutris discord - with what you are describing, it would take me 20 minutes to get the base battle.net working so you can see what is causing your issue or 3 days back and forwards here. As a hint, your wine version has known issues, and unless you manually installed the lutris 0.5.14 from the git page in Mint, or are running flatpak, you have other issues related to that

Hmmm I remember there was some confusion in Lutris around this, like https://github.com/lutris/lutris/issues/4237 , and I had to do some workaround. But I can't check what exactly right now...

As a data point, you can run a fair number of Windows games under Proton by using Lutris instead of Steam:

* https://lutris.net

* https://github.com/lutris/lutris

It's an OSS game launcher that takes the place of Steam, and you can set things up to run locally so you don't even need an account on their system (lutris.net).

Lutris

[Resources] * Ventoy (for EZ bootable USB sticks) ==> https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html * How to use Ventoy ==> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K64sT0pQc-0 * Rufus (alternative bootable USB stick creator in Windows) ==> https://rufus.ie/en/ * MD5 & SHA Checksum Utility (for validating your ISO downloads) ==> https://download.cnet.com/md5-sha-checksum-utility/3000-2092_4-10911445.html * Steam will be in the repositories (repos) and Proton is apart of Steam * www.protondb.com (lookup Steam game info... see how well it works or if it is in a FUBAR state on Linux) * WINE will be in the repos and can be acquired via WINE HQ. I recommend using the repos, but WINE HQ if you need it ( https://www.winehq.org/ ) * Lutris is a front-end to WINE which makes installing and running non-Steam games easy. It can be found in the repos ( https://lutris.net/ ) * How-To videos for setting up various distros for gaming ( https://www.youtube.com/@IntelligentGaming2020/videos ). I have no affiliation with this channel. He is a Linux user/gamer sharing info. Search his channel for your distro to find the specific how-to videos. * r/linux4noobs (a newbie focused Linux subreddit) * most if not all of the distros will have their own subreddits (ex: r/pop_OS, r/linuxmint, r/fedora, r/manjaro, r/EndeavourOS)

ProtonDB is a community list of Steam games rating their playability. Heroic launcher runs GOG and Epic games. Lutris and Bottles can be used to run everything else.