wine configuration for steam games

[Furymike]

Hi everyone,

I installed steam via playonlinux (behind wine). Then I installed some games. I wonder how can I configure wine for each game. I can configure wine for steam via playonlinux but not the game.

Thanks,

FM

[Ratubadis]

just create new prefix for each game if it does not bother you.
otherwise it is hard to, because some game need specific configuration on wine.

[thetargos]

It is easier ti use Lutris, it uses wine Steam as a runner back end. In POL every change to wine will affect every game.

[Bobtail Squid]

Lutris is better.

[Zephar]

Originally posted by thetargos:

It is easier ti use Lutris, it uses wine Steam as a runner back end. In POL every change to wine will affect every game.

Nice to know about this piece of software. I play native only games anymore, but this will help others I know that ask me for easier ways.

[Furymike]

Thank you I did not know Lutris,

However still the same problem with Lutris I do not know how to configure wine for the game. For example how can I fix a custom resolution for the game and not just for steam ?

FM

[Ratubadis]

Originally posted by Furymike:

Thank you I did not know Lutris,

However still the same problem with Lutris I do not know how to configure wine for the game. For example how can I fix a custom resolution for the game and not just for steam ?

FM

never used lutris, so idk.
do you try winecfg for the prefix?.
or you can configure in game settings.

[ack0329]

I am also new to Luitris, but I have used it for a couple of weeks, and here are my notes that may help others- i hope it helps (cleaned it up a bit , but still kinda messy - sorry)

from tomboy notes

https://forums.lutris.net/t/doom-2016-working-on-ubuntu-gnome/584/26
• Sound Possible Fix - Stuttering
• For Ubuntu-Gnome / Lutris
‣ Checked - Reset Pulse-Audio in System Options
‣ Lutris / Doom ? Configure / Runner Options // >> Audio Driver (selected ALSA) as opposed to Default
• Game Crashing (but not often)
‣ Switched from 2.8 to 2.9 (Wine/Staging/64-bit), Working BETTER for sure! and
‣ Switched from XP to 7, in winecfg (surprising as POL and XOver always suggest XP)
• Again not sure if it was a fix but game visually was better (i think), Sound was clearer (very much so)
∘ As always - Trying to Help

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
∘ Lutris Improvements
‣ When I clicked install from your website it:
∘ 1/ Lutris Installed Doom with wine 1.6.2 (32-bit) prefix making (as you now steam login entries greyed out, and Doom Unplayable (needs a 64-bit prefix).
‣ Solution
∘ It is more a problem with Ubuntu-Gnome forcing it's pathetic early version of wine into Lutris's prefix.
∘ Wine (2.0 Stable)
‣ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds
∘ For 64-bit system, enable 32-bit architecture (if you haven’t already) via ...
‣ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
‣ sudo apt-get install --install-recommends wine-staging ... (after updating)
∘ 2/ It complained that it was not a 64-bit wine version
• and indeed the "Steam Wine" was also set to wine 1.6.2. This can confuse anyone.
• upgrade to a 64-bit version (well now I know it's needed ONLY in "Steam Wine", NOT in Wine. This can CONFUSE ANYONE!
∘ and Perhaps Wine (not "Steam Wine") needs to be 32-bit- I still don't know., but I upgraded it "Wine" to to NON-Staging 2.9 64-bit and all worked well. But, after a re-install of Ubuntu-Gnome, I let it at a 32 bit version
• BOTH WORKED!
∘ 3/ You should (in my opinion) have a users guide - and I sure could have used one, but cold NOT find one ANYWHERE in 20-30 web searches. It could really help!
∘ 4/ Also note that installs in ~/.local/share/lutris/runners/winesteam/prefix and NOT in "prefix64" as one would expect. Perhaps worn newbies about this.


• What worked for me in all the relevant Lutris Options
• Linux
∘ Runner Options (nothing their)
∘ System Options
‣ Restore Desktop Resolution when game quits (ONLY)
• all else default or Off
• Steam - Configure
∘ Runner Options / nothing checked
∘ System Options / SAA
• Wine
∘ Manage Version
• add Wine Staging 2.8 64-bit or most others after 2.0 rc1 (Staging and 64bits is what's important)
∘ Runner Options
‣ System 1.6.2 (default) (Yes keep this in HERE! Seemingly Dumb but works)
∘ I re-installed Ubuntu-Gnome and made my version 2.0 (see above)
• note: in "Steam Wine" of course 64 wine staging 2.6 or later.
‣ all esle default
∘ System Options / SAA

• Wine Steam / Configure
∘ Runner Options
‣ choose 2.8 staging 64-bit!!!! for Doom (change it from System 1.6.2 or what ever your system wine is , ... which is likely what over-ruled Lutris's install of the 64-bit wine staging version)
‣ Virtual Desktop 1080 Default works
‣ Custom Wine "None" Default works
‣ Mouse Warp Over-ride - Force Default works
‣ Strict Draw Ordering Enabled Default works
‣ Output Debug - Enabled Default works
∘ System Options / SAA
• Also note that installs in ~/.local/share/lutris/runners/winesteam/prefix and NOT in "prefix64" as one would expect
• A serious constant crash fix
‣ "check - Disable "Process Monitor" in "System Options"
∘ BUT almost invisible to me (or STUPID ME) but for others .... one needs to scroll down past a large gray blank area which I ASSUMED was the end of the "Page", but no there are a dozen or so more options which had the aforementioned ...


∘ Steam
• Wine steam login has blank prompts
‣ Your version of wine is to old!
‣ Go in Manage Runner -> Wine Manage Version
• Use the latest (2.7)
∘ I would suggest using whatever is the latest version of Wine Staging available, even if there's a more recent wine version.
‣ (That would be Wine Staging 2.6 as of now)

∘ Install Lutris
• For Ubuntu
∘ ver=$(lsb_release -sr); if [ $ver != "16.10" -a $ver != "17.04" -a $ver != "16.04" ]; then ver=16.04; fi
∘ echo "deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/xUbuntu_$ver/ ./" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lutris.list
∘ wget -q http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/xUbuntu_$ver/Release.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Tell me if it help - I hope it does!

Cheers, Mark

[Furymike]

Originally posted by Dedpool:

Originally posted by Furymike:

Thank you I did not know Lutris,

However still the same problem with Lutris I do not know how to configure wine for the game. For example how can I fix a custom resolution for the game and not just for steam ?

FM

never used lutris, so idk.
do you try winecfg for the prefix?.
or you can configure in game settings.

The problem is that when I start the game wine config only affects steam and not the game. Another wine opens and I do not know how to configure it. As a consequence the game settings do not allow me to set custom resolution but only those allowed by wine.

Originally posted by ack0329:

I am also new to Luitris, but I have used it for a couple of weeks, and here are my notes that may help others- i hope it helps (cleaned it up a bit , but still kinda messy - sorry)

from tomboy notes

https://forums.lutris.net/t/doom-2016-working-on-ubuntu-gnome/584/26
• Sound Possible Fix - Stuttering
• For Ubuntu-Gnome / Lutris
‣ Checked - Reset Pulse-Audio in System Options
‣ Lutris / Doom ? Configure / Runner Options // >> Audio Driver (selected ALSA) as opposed to Default
• Game Crashing (but not often)
‣ Switched from 2.8 to 2.9 (Wine/Staging/64-bit), Working BETTER for sure! and
‣ Switched from XP to 7, in winecfg (surprising as POL and XOver always suggest XP)
• Again not sure if it was a fix but game visually was better (i think), Sound was clearer (very much so)
∘ As always - Trying to Help

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
∘ Lutris Improvements
‣ When I clicked install from your website it:
∘ 1/ Lutris Installed Doom with wine 1.6.2 (32-bit) prefix making (as you now steam login entries greyed out, and Doom Unplayable (needs a 64-bit prefix).
‣ Solution
∘ It is more a problem with Ubuntu-Gnome forcing it's pathetic early version of wine into Lutris's prefix.
∘ Wine (2.0 Stable)
‣ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds
∘ For 64-bit system, enable 32-bit architecture (if you haven’t already) via ...
‣ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
‣ sudo apt-get install --install-recommends wine-staging ... (after updating)
∘ 2/ It complained that it was not a 64-bit wine version
• and indeed the "Steam Wine" was also set to wine 1.6.2. This can confuse anyone.
• upgrade to a 64-bit version (well now I know it's needed ONLY in "Steam Wine", NOT in Wine. This can CONFUSE ANYONE!
∘ and Perhaps Wine (not "Steam Wine") needs to be 32-bit- I still don't know., but I upgraded it "Wine" to to NON-Staging 2.9 64-bit and all worked well. But, after a re-install of Ubuntu-Gnome, I let it at a 32 bit version
• BOTH WORKED!
∘ 3/ You should (in my opinion) have a users guide - and I sure could have used one, but cold NOT find one ANYWHERE in 20-30 web searches. It could really help!
∘ 4/ Also note that installs in ~/.local/share/lutris/runners/winesteam/prefix and NOT in "prefix64" as one would expect. Perhaps worn newbies about this.


• What worked for me in all the relevant Lutris Options
• Linux
∘ Runner Options (nothing their)
∘ System Options
‣ Restore Desktop Resolution when game quits (ONLY)
• all else default or Off
• Steam - Configure
∘ Runner Options / nothing checked
∘ System Options / SAA
• Wine
∘ Manage Version
• add Wine Staging 2.8 64-bit or most others after 2.0 rc1 (Staging and 64bits is what's important)
∘ Runner Options
‣ System 1.6.2 (default) (Yes keep this in HERE! Seemingly Dumb but works)
∘ I re-installed Ubuntu-Gnome and made my version 2.0 (see above)
• note: in "Steam Wine" of course 64 wine staging 2.6 or later.
‣ all esle default
∘ System Options / SAA

• Wine Steam / Configure
∘ Runner Options
‣ choose 2.8 staging 64-bit!!!! for Doom (change it from System 1.6.2 or what ever your system wine is , ... which is likely what over-ruled Lutris's install of the 64-bit wine staging version)
‣ Virtual Desktop 1080 Default works
‣ Custom Wine "None" Default works
‣ Mouse Warp Over-ride - Force Default works
‣ Strict Draw Ordering Enabled Default works
‣ Output Debug - Enabled Default works
∘ System Options / SAA
• Also note that installs in ~/.local/share/lutris/runners/winesteam/prefix and NOT in "prefix64" as one would expect
• A serious constant crash fix
‣ "check - Disable "Process Monitor" in "System Options"
∘ BUT almost invisible to me (or STUPID ME) but for others .... one needs to scroll down past a large gray blank area which I ASSUMED was the end of the "Page", but no there are a dozen or so more options which had the aforementioned ...


∘ Steam
• Wine steam login has blank prompts
‣ Your version of wine is to old!
‣ Go in Manage Runner -> Wine Manage Version
• Use the latest (2.7)
∘ I would suggest using whatever is the latest version of Wine Staging available, even if there's a more recent wine version.
‣ (That would be Wine Staging 2.6 as of now)

∘ Install Lutris
• For Ubuntu
∘ ver=$(lsb_release -sr); if [ $ver != "16.10" -a $ver != "17.04" -a $ver != "16.04" ]; then ver=16.04; fi
∘ echo "deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/xUbuntu_$ver/ ./" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lutris.list
∘ wget -q http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/xUbuntu_$ver/Release.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Tell me if it help - I hope it does!

Cheers, Mark

Same response, all these options only affects steam and not the game.

I hope you get what I mean.

Regards,

FM

[thetargos]

Originally posted by Furymike:

The problem is that when I start the game wine config only affects steam and not the game. Another wine opens and I do not know how to configure it. As a consequence the game settings do not allow me to set custom resolution but only those allowed by wine.

Do you mean with PoL or Lutris? IIRC if Lutris, you just need to check the advanced configuration optios for the game with the wine steam runner backend, which would then allow you set the options for the game rather than Steam.

I have never seen such behaviour in PoL with Steam that two different instances of wine open, one for Steam and another for the game

[Furymike]

Originally posted by thetargos:

Originally posted by Furymike:

The problem is that when I start the game wine config only affects steam and not the game. Another wine opens and I do not know how to configure it. As a consequence the game settings do not allow me to set custom resolution but only those allowed by wine.

Do you mean with PoL or Lutris? IIRC if Lutris, you just need to check the advanced configuration optios for the game with the wine steam runner backend, which would then allow you set the options for the game rather than Steam.

I have never seen such behaviour in PoL with Steam that two different instances of wine open, one for Steam and another for the game

I have the same problem for both PoL and Lutris even doing what you suggest.

[thetargos]

What are the settings you want to change? Maybe they are being ignored in both, Lutris and PoL?

[Furymike]

Originally posted by thetargos:

What are the settings you want to change? Maybe they are being ignored in both, Lutris and PoL?

I would like to have a custom resolution.

[thetargos]

In that case it may be better off running the wine application in a separate X instance (a different screen). You may find a miriad how tos on the subject with a quick google search. You may set things in a.script which you can THEN call from Lutris.

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