Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTOh lord, please don't get me wrong, this message is not exactly targeted at you or someone specific, but as mentioned before it's easy. It will take you less than a minute. And if you consider yourself an advanced windows user, you should have knowledge about the cmd / power shell, thus not being afraid of the terminal. Even if you google for "How to create a wine prefix." the first result will already tell you. This will take you 5 minutes of googling on how to create one and maybe 5 more on how to make use of it.

Assuming you use a debian based distro (Debian, Ubuntu, some more...) open a terminal (CRTL + T) you could do it like this:

How to deploy a wine prefix & install DXVK

1. Create Wine-Prefix (64bit / x64 in this case)
WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.dxvk" wine wineboot

Note: The prefix is named "dxvk" like this. You could name it however you so desire.

2. Download dxvk-Release (0.42 in this case)
wget https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/download/v0.42/dxvk-0.42.tar.gz

3. Extract the archive and change into the x64 directory
tar -xvf  dxvk-0.42.tar.gz && cd dxvk-0.42/x64/

4. Install dxvk in your desired Wineprefix
WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.dxvk" ./setup_dxvk.sh

At this point you are already done. Now you can execute e.g. .exe-files in this prefix:
WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.dxvk" wine BLAHBLAH.exe

If you don't want to type the prefix in all the time, just do:
export WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.dxvk"

...and as long as the terminal is open you will always refer to this prefix.

How to deploy a wine prefix & install DXVK in one command
WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.dxvk" wine wineboot && wget https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/download/v0.42/dxvk-0.42.tar.gz && tar -xvf  dxvk-0.42.tar.gz && cd dxvk-0.42/x64/ && WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.dxvk" ./setup_dxvk.sh

...which will only take a few seconds.

Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation, I'll try this tonight. Could help as I tried installing Lutris yesterday and something's wrong, altough I have Wine installed (checked in terminal via wine --version ^^) Lutris doesn't see it in the list of Wine runners.

When I say I'm an advanced user it's just that I'm able to look for solutions when I get into a problem, which average Joe won't bother doing, but when I find a solution I'm just stupidly copy/pasting what I found, I have no idea what the instructions you just gave exactly do for example. It's nearly black magic and I could as well paste a code telling my computer to wipe itself clean without knowing it :D

And by the way I don't Google for information as Google is more evil than Microsoft to me. I think any Linux user should use Qwant or other more privacy friendly search engines ;)

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Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTThere is a Lutris script, for example for Battlefield 4.


On the other hand I don't get why people claim it's hard to install DXVK. It's actually, as mentioned before, pretty easy. Create a Wine Prefix and either install DXVK via script in that or just copy over the two DLLs. Nothing hard about that.

You just can't say that's easy. For any average Windows user for whom everything has always been just a double click away this can be a show stopper. Even for me that's not easy, I consider myself an advanced user as I used to handle Windows very well and have managed to game on Linux for more than 2 years now.

But when you say "create a Wine Prefix" I know that will require me to search the Web to find out how to do it, it'll most likely take me half an hour or more to understand and do that. Then I'll have to install DXVK via script, which again is not easier than a double click, and then again copy 2 DLLs and put them in a probably hidden folder.

Maybe you're in there for so long that you don't see why people claim some things are hard to do in Linux ^_^

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Quoting: GuestI would like to share this interesting bit : around me, in France, the only people I know who are using Linux are environmental / left wing militants / activists. Apart from those, I don't know any. Not even people working in computer science (except if they are also militants) and obviously not gamers.

I'm French and don't consider myself an activist, but I consider myself a gamer with close to 3000 hours on the last iterations of the Battlefield Franchise (BC2, BF3 & BF4), plus a lot of other games. So obviously there are some like me, but I agree that I can't see a lot in my environment. I'm trying to make people switch to Linux but gamers I know mainly don't want to leave out their Windows Steam libraries and don't want to mess with Wine and such complicated workarounds :(

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Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTDoes someone have the possibility to try out Battlefield 3 and 4?

BF3 I don't think will work because of Battlelog.
I tried out BF4 tho and it works pretty well! There are a few bugs, and (at least on my AMD card) particles draw as black boxes, which can be pretty irritating. Also Punkbuster is not really happy about us using modified DLLs and you probably will get kicked from servers. Singleplayer and Unranked/No PB Servers should be fine though :)
I was running Medium Settings, 720p on a RX480 at 100-200fps ^-^

Do you happen to have a link to something explaining how to make BF4 work ? All I can see is a Garbage status for the game on WineHQ and can't find any relevant info on making it actually work :(

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Quoting: Guestif you can get origin to go online i used lutris to install battlefield 4 but i can't get origin to go online unless there actually down right now.

If that's single player only then it's not that fun :(

Thanks anyway !

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Does the mention of Battlefield 3 mean that we can actually play Batllefield 3 under Wine ? That's a game I'd love to play again :)

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Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTActually it's pretty nice of you guys that you want to give everything to Liam. Please don't forget that if devs don't receive any share, there will be no games anymore, especially not on Linux. Also, if Humble don't receive money they might drop their "decide whom you give money" shared system.


So I'd definitely give Liam 50 % and share the rest between devs and Humble, maybe also 10 % to charity.

Agree with that, for the "system" to continue working there needs to be a kind of balance. My 14 bucks split was 5 for GOL, 5 for the devs, 2 for the Wikimedia Foundation and 2 to Humble, unlike what was feared here when they were acquired they continue to offer good bundles (including Linux) so they deserve to get their cut as well ;)

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Nice bundle and nice way to support GOL, took the whole bundle as I had none of the games and they're all available for Linux :)

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: 14AMD GPU experience on Linux isn't attractive.

It's pretty smooth these days for games. And way more attractive than Nvidia integration wise.

I have to second that, I've been using Mesa for more than a year now and I've encountered no problems using an RX480. My son using an older HD7950 has some minor ligthing issues in Grid Autosport when facing the sun or another light source but it's not game braking, just a bit weird :D

Other than that it's really smooth overall.

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Quoting: XpanderIs your wheel centered when you start up the game? what does jstest-gtk say? shows centered there?

you might want to try to turn off autocenter also.

ltwheelconf --wheel G25 --nativemode --range 900 --autocenter 0"

Yes the wheel is centered when starting the game. If launching Grid or Dirt Rally everything's fine but launching ETS2 it is totally off center.

I've neve never used jstest-gtk so far, I'll give it a try as well as the command you're suggesting, thanks ;)

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