Context:

I’m currently running Debian 12.7 on VirtualBox, trying out linux before I become experienced enough to fully switch my drive to linux. I have an i5 cpu and an amd radeon gpu on my laptop. I run kde-plasma with wayland.

I have sorted out some basic stuff, but my current problem is how to play the few games I have on linux (“Counter-strike 1.6”, “Hades I”, “MGR: Revengeance”, “Minecraft” (t-launcher) and “Outer-Wilds”). I want ro move their game data too, but I think that’s a simple copy paste on the appropriate paths. I also want to run a few other programs, possibly Notepad++ and mp3tag, but I think I can figure those if I fugre the games.

I know about the existance of Wine, Winetricks (though not very good at using it), Proton, Lutris, Bottles and Heroic (and PlayOnLinux which I haven’t installed).

I have installed Lutris (flatpak), Bottles (flatpak) and Heroic (Appimage).

I have successfully manually installed Notepad++ in Bottles using soda-9.0.1 and semi-successfully manually installed Counter-strike 1.6 on Lutris using wine-ge-8-26-x86_64. The issues with that (among others?) is that I cant look around with the mouse and there is no audio. Apparently some dependencies are missing.

So, this comes to my question:

How do I figure what dependencies to use on my wineprefixes?

Lutris, bottles and heroic theoritically allow you to edit the dependencies, in case something goes wrong. Lutris also is supposed to have some installation scripts on their database.

Is there any way I can find any configuration in text form? How can I then use this text to pick the dependencies myself?

I’m thinking of a list with the recommended changes:

Counter-strike 1.6 installation script:

Install Windows fonts

Install cmd

Install vcrun2013

Do X changes on registry

etc.

Is there such a thing? Is there any other way to figure this out (other than painfully and randomly trying setup combinations)?

    • dingdongitsabear@lemmy.mlEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      you’re overcomplicating it. get a separate $20 SSD and install the OS to it, dicking around with wine and tools within virtualbox is a headache you don’t need. set it up as desired (I recommend using flatpak versions of lutris and friends because of freshness) and then install the games one by one, followed by transferring the game data/settings/etc. you can experiment to your heart’s desire because you always have the fallback solution of your original drive.

      then, when you know what’s what and where’s what you can make the transition. good luck!

      • Blastboom Strice@mander.xyzOPEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        I think this is supposed to be a reply to me, so I’ll respond🙃

        Yep, I think you’re right, I’m currently flashibg the debian installer on a usb card which I’ll use to install debian on an external ssd I found. Vbox is too slow for my needs now.

          • Blastboom Strice@mander.xyzOPEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            Well, as I said to someone else, while indeed debian probably is a bad choice for gaming, I barely game and the windows games I have are kinda old (Hades I is probably the most recent). I just casually play cs 1.6 or Supertuxkart every now and then :)

            Maybe in the future I could experiment with the other distros, thanks for the suggestions.

    • Blastboom Strice@mander.xyzOPEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Cs1.6: is this about the paid steam version or is there a linux cracked non steam version that can use multiplayer too? I’m not asking for a link, I just want to know what results should I expect from my searches.😅

      Prism: I have heard about prism and tnx for the bypass, might use it. (I’ve also heard that tlauncher is shady, I might try to move my files to prism.) (I dont event play mc, I think minetest is better, but I dont play that either, lol. I just dont want to erase ancient worlds.)

      Thanks for the community, I had forgotten its name! :)

      • junusdenised420@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I assumed that CS was a paid version, Steam and protondb say it has a native build. Steam should download that version automaticlly unless you change it do download the windows version iirc

          • junusdenised420@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            5·
            2 months ago

            Valve is one of the few bigger gaming companies that actually try to give consumers a good experience. They have supported linux for quite some time now (since Win8 with the microsoft store iirc) and I doubt that will chance anytime soon

  • anon5621@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    T launcher working fine under linux since it java just find and download it as .jar file But i also recommend higly recommend
    https://llaun.ch/en it was original tlauncher laucher, more details https://telegra.ph/The-True-Story-of-TL-05-21 Developer even publishing source code of his laucher. But u need to download from ukrainian,russja,belarusia or other countries cause for most europe couries it gonna show DCMA banner from mojang,in other case it will load all files

    U don’t need windows version of cs 1.6.Valve ported all cs to linux,so so find native 1.6 version https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5735662

    Also recommens u to try project portproton for launching games,most of my games works with 2 clicks https://github.com/Castro-Fidel/PortWINE

    If u get used to notepad++ very much u can use reimplementation of it which cross platform https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext

    • Blastboom Strice@mander.xyzOPEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Thank you for all of the detailed resources with appropriate links! Thank you thank you

      (And I really wanted to escape notepad++, because it’s not native.)

  • elidoz@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    maybe you can try to change the runner of the game, you could try with proton-ge instead of wine-ge, or some other thing

    I do that on Lutris in case the game doesn’t work, or it is slower than it should be, or it has problems with input or output

    upto now every game I wanted to install worked with at least one of the options

    edit: also other easy things you might try can be the windows version and the bit architecture

    if some of these options don’t work quickly, you can check on wine’s website or proton’s website, where you can find reccomended configurations for games and software

    • Blastboom Strice@mander.xyzOPEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I will try

      Edit: it seems like for cs1.6 at least there arent practiallt any configuration files :/

      I think they should at least advise me to use gecko, but they emit that.