Wine and games

[Member DrRobotnik]

Hewllo, I’ve recently installed AntiX in an old Toshiba Satellite L35. I’ve tried using Wine to run some games (like Cave Story and TouHou EoSD) but it has been giving me an error saying the program found a serious issue and needs to close. I tried configuring Wine to run them on Windows XP mode but it won’t work

Is there a solution to this problem?

[Member Robin]

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Hello,
please try
sudo apt-get install playonlinux
in a console window (roxterm). Then start this management program from antiX menu → Accessoirs.
Games are a bit difficult in Wine, you may need a special wine version for each game to make them run. See winehq database for details in which wine version a game was reported to run properly and select it then from the playonlinux environment setup for this game. Look out for additional hints about needed configurations or patches. Sometimes there is a specialy crafted version (including some patches) present from the playonlinux menu, which matches the reqirements as found in winehq database.
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Robin

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[Member DrRobotnik]

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I tried installing games from PlayOnLinux and says my system doesn’t support AMD64

Does this mean I am unable to utilize PlayOnLinux for games?

[Member Robin]

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Please, be a bit more concise when asking for help here. How should anybody guess what your system is capable of if you don’t tell? Please, read How to get help here first, and come back with the pieces of information described there. Your statement “doesn’t work” is simply far to little.

Generally playonlinux positively does work fine on 32bit systems and 64bit systems both.

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[Member DrRobotnik]

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I installed PlayOnLinux like you said, and I tried installing Cave Story from the PlayOnLinux program list. When I was in the installation window, it gave me the following error:

Error in POL_System_SetArch
Amd64 is not supported by your system

I have tried running Cave Story on PlayOnLinux from the .exe I have already on my PC and Wine gives me the beforementioned serious issue and program needs to close, PlayOnLinux just says it has an issue running the program. I tried this because I saw an old video (2013) on how to use PlayOnLinux and it showed it can be run like that with no major issues

about my system,I will include an inxi.txt file
about Wine, I installed Wine and Wine32 from the Synaptic Package Manager

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1. inxi-1.txt

[Member Robin]

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Hi!
Great. That’s the kind of info we always need, regardless who tries to answer.

The message means, that the game version prepared in playonlinux is a 64 bit version of this game, while you have a 32 bit CPU (as me also) which is clear from your inxi output. Wine is a compatibility layer only, not an emulator. So it can run 64 bit executables only on a true 64 bit hardware. If you actually want to run 64 bit software on a 32 bit CPU you need something like virtualbox or qemu. But here this is not needed.
All you need to do is: Make sure to download a 32 bit version of this game you want to install (maybe the version you have on your PC is 32 bit already), and install it in the playonlinux environment manually. First you need to select the appropriate wine environment from “Tools → Manage wine versions”. I’d suggest to start with wine version 1.6.2, since this is the version which was rated platinum in winhq database. Once the proper environment is installed in the playonlinux, the installation of the program or game itself can be done by first selecting “install a program” and then clicking on the bottom line which reads something like “install a program not listed above”. Follow the steps through the guided install. Don’t let start the game when install was done, but leave it for playonlinux to complete the finalisation steps. If the install fails, or you get errors while running the game, you can try another wine version the same way, again starting with selecting the wine version from “Tools → Manage wine versions”.

But why do you want to install this in wine at all? There are some native linux versions for 32 bit present on the above linked site, if you scroll down a bit. Maybe this could be enough already to make it run on your device. If there is a native version of a program available, this is basically the better solution in most cases.

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Robin

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[Member DrRobotnik]

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I have tried three versions. When using 1.6.2 it just makes a black line/dot in the screen and won’t load and do anything (I let the laptop stay for an hour with that and nothing happened) (will include screenshot)
I tried version 2.8 and it still gives me the same error

I tried running EoSD with these versions (and 1.0.1) and it still fails too (it does not give me this fatal error, it gives me a error message with random characters)

I will also add the error Wine is giving me (version 2.8)

• This reply was modified 6 months, 2 weeks ago by DrRobotnik.

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[Member Robin]

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Hi,
I’m not trained in reading these dumps, you’ve attached, sorry, but maybe somebody else can make something of it. So it is great you’ve posted these details. Possibly you want to pose this question in a place where people have specific knowledge about this playonlinux environment, e.g. the playonlinux forums.
From the Supported Software → Functions sections of this site you can look up details about installation of recent Cavestory. The install script has an interesting line in it (click on soruce code to see it on this site) :

58   # Determine Architecture
59   POL_System_SetArch "amd64"
60   # POL_System_SetArch "x86"

The 32bit architecture is commented out for some reason.
And the recent executable obviously expects some newer wine, while in the script header is a remark:

19   # KNOWN ISSUES:
20   #  - Wine x86 4.0.3: X

And also
49 # POL_SetupWindow_message "$(eval_gettext 'WARNING: this software does exist in Linux native version.\n\nThis script only allow to run the Windows version on Linux, please prefer the Linux edition for better 3D speed.')" "$TITLE"

So you have some options now:

— Try whether any wine versions between your 2.8 and 4.0.3 (or even newer ones) is able to run this executable. This is a Sisyphos task, but maybe you succeed this way. I’ve seen programs already running on a single wine version only, while in all other versions they failed with “general protection faults”.
— Try to modify the script from this page so it accepts 32bit hardware (comment out the 64 bit line and remove the sharp sign from the 32 bit line in order to switch it)
— Try to ask the people in playonlinux forums for more specific support on this issue and where this script is located, and how it can be made fit for 32bit systems, or how to setup this game properly manually.
– Try to install the native linux version of the game. For questions about the native install the Cavestory forums are probably the best place to get the needed pieces of information.

Regards
Robin

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