Wine works really well on popular games. But when I want to run a more obscure program I have spotty luck.
On a few of occasions I was able to get a few programs to run via Wine, but after an OS wipe I was unable to get them to work again. In those circumstances I know the programs CAN work, & I realize how terrible I am at troubleshooting Wine problems. Internet searches turn up very little advice for how to go about troubleshooting.
Do any of you have any procedures, rules of thumb, advice etc for troubleshooting Wine issues?
Thanks for the advice! I’ve made a habit of using individual prefixes for games & non-games alike (via Lutris), but I’ve rarely installed anything extra besides just the program/game in-question. Twice you mentioned
dotnet48,vcrun2022,dxvk, andvkd3d. Are those particularly common “must haves” to include on the prefix in addition to the game/program?Not all programs will need those but as a shotgun method it’s a very easy first attempt at solving problems. If you’re already using Lutris it’s probably handling
dxvk+vkd3dfor you, so you can just adddotnet48andvcrun2022to see if that helps. You can also run winetricks through Lutris itself with this option, but there’s no way to “force” it via the-fflag like you can in the CLI. The-fflag is currently required to installdotnet48IIRC because Winetricks is confused about which versions of Wine can accept that install.If you’re specifically trying to get a game to work you can also try installing
physxandxact, which are sometimes required for older games. Another tip for games is that occasionally certain games get freaked out about NVAPI being enabled, so you can try disabling NVAPI under the “runner options” tab in Lutris configuration to see if that helps. Also, try using the latest Wine-GE Wine version in Lutris, if you’re currently just using stock system Wine. ProtonUp-Qt can download this into the right directory for you if you’re not sure how.