www.protondb.com/app/1086940 Always suggest checking protondb. But looks like the vast majority of people can play it in desktop Linux and SteamDeck with slight tweaking. I’ve been waiting for the full release before playing
According to protondb.com BG3 should run okay-ish on the Steam Deck, but with some tweaks. Just from a glance it looks like people skip the launcher after initial setup and lock the fps to 30-40ish. You can find more details here:
Unfortunately not! Admittedly, I only tried the Flatpak on Arch while I tested Lutris on all the distributions we provide instructions for. I got a bunch of different errors when trying to launch Sono Hanabira 1. I’m reinstalling Bottles with Flatpak now so I can test it again.
First, I create a Gaming bottle. I change the Runner to system Wine, which is Wine Staging 8.12 for me. Then I get the classic File Join error:
So, it seems like the filenames are garbled. I install cjkfonts as a dependency—I wish it gave me feedback as to what it’s doing like Lutris does in the installer while it does this because it takes a while, but that’s a small usability thing. I also set the LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 environment variable in settings for the bottle. I try to launch it again and the text isn’t garbled anymore, but I still get the filejoin error:
I try again, but I get the same error. At this point, I figure Sono Hana is probably a tricky game so I try H2O now, which I know works in normal Wine, Lutris, and even CrossOver, but I get this:
I’ll see if I can give it a try later tonight, since there may have been a regression since I last played anything. do you have any specific VNs you had issues with aside from sonohana? I played through the rance series using bottles up to magnum quest.
I try again, but I get the same error. At this point, I figure Sono Hana is probably a tricky game so I try H2O now, which I know works in normal Wine, Lutris, and even CrossOver, but I get this:
I tried Suteki na Kanojo no Tsukurikata, which gives me this:
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<span style="color:#323232;">00c4:err:module:import_dll Library UnityPlayer.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\run\user\1000\doc\2bcd2b83\Sutekina_kanojo_no_tsukurikata.exe") not found
</span><span style="color:#323232;">00c4:err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Importing dlls for L"Z:\run\user\1000\doc\2bcd2b83\Sutekina_kanojo_no_tsukurikata.exe" failed, status c0000135
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I tried Amrilato, which tells me it can’t find the game executable and gives me this:
I tried Higurashi Meakashi, which gives me this even though there is a data folder named this:
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<span style="color:#323232;">002c:err:wineboot:process_run_key Error running cmd L"C:\windows\system32\winemenubuilder.exe -r" (126).
</span><span style="color:#323232;">There should be 'HigurashiEp05_Data'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">folder next to the executable
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And it continues on in this fashion. I’m using sys-wine-8.0, but switching to soda-7.0-7 gives me identical results. It seems something is fundamentally broken in the install, but I don’t see how that could be given I installed it via Flatpak.
I do have dracuriot so I will be able to test that again then, by chance are you running the games from bottles internal system bottles’ “Program files”, I run all my games from that
Most of these games are installed in my ~/games/VNs folder, but Higurashi is in a Wineprefix. These games were installed long ago, and some of them don’t even have methods of installation. Since you gave me the idea, I installed Flatseal and gave Bottles free reign on “All user files (filesystem=home)”, which it didn’t have, but that didn’t help. I’m very much not an expert on Flatpak, so it’s possible I missed something basic. Lutris on Linux Mint worked perfectly fine with Sono Hana 1, so I don’t know what’s different about Bottles.
Edit: I copied Sono Hana 1 to ~/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles/runner-dir/drive_c/Program Files/その花びら1 and it worked! In the end, it was something basic. I think I’m going to break the sandbox though because I don’t want to move all my games there: docs.usebottles.com/flatpak/…/use-system-home
I’m pretty sure there are wine builds with all the proton enhancements that aren’t in normal wine yet. I feel like I saw in lutris or bottles or both but you can surely get it other ways too.
I’m far from an expert but I believe Proton is specifically intended to provide compatability with Windows gaming tech like DirectX.
For regular non-game software you don’t need that tech, you can just run it through Wine itself (Proton is built on Wine). Bottles is actually what I see recommended these days (it simplifies management of Wine prefixes) and supposedly many apps can run in a few clicks.
This is the answer. Dual boot for awhile and experiment a bit. Sometimes games work out of the box, other times it needs a bit of tinkering which most of the time someone else has already identified what you need to do to fix your issue.
Things like Lutris, Steam, Wine and ProtonDB are in all invaluable to gaming on Linux.
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