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Wine gaming broken on Fedora 37 with Wine 8.12? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by droopy4096@lemmy.ca to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I just found out that sometime in the last month or so while doing regular updates Wine got bumped to 8.12... (likely from 8.0) and my games have gone haywire: Neverwinter Nights and Diablo2 would kind of start but then halt. Switching to desktop and back unblocks games for the next few seconds and then things repeat.

I've downgraded wine to 7.12 and things are working back.

Question: should I have done some migration step for 8.12 to work properly or is it even a known issue?

I am using PlayOnLinux for Diablo2 with System Wine and Vanilla System wine for NWN.

(crossposted from reddit)

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[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know about this specific Fedora situation, but you should really be using something like Lutris or Bottles to create individual prefixes for each game and use downloadable Wine versions to launch the games instead of your system Wine. That will avoid situations like this in the future.

[–] phanto@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Agreed. I use Lutris on 37, and play a bunch of stuff with no issues. Took me too long to figure out how to use the Lutris posts, but it's been smooth sailing ever since.

[–] FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

PlayOnLinux is not maintained consistently and hasn’t been for a couple of years. I have Diablo 2 on Lutris. It works great. However, I’m on Fedora 38, so there’s that. I don’t think that makes much of a difference, though. Your problem is probably related to PlayOnLinux being behind the times.

[–] droopy4096@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's not POL. It's System Wine. Lutris has the same problem with system Wine (and some of it's own Wine versions). All I'm trying to do is figure out the source and report upstream

[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

I only buy games through and play via Steam. No issues here on Fedora 38.

Do you know how I can verify the wine version for Steam? Curious if I am also on Wine 8.0.

[–] Presi300@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Don't use playonlinux, it's dead and doesn't work, use lutris. And update to fedora 38.