Playing On Salix - How?

[lurker666]

Hi everyone, I hope you are all well.

My question is, what are the requirements to play on Salix? I work too much and want to relax. I used to play a lot on spyware windows, but I just downloaded and launched it there.

I have downloaded Wine from Alien (downloaded from slackbuilds has some problem, it gives an error), and also Lutris. I downloaded a game (not a new one, a very old Need For Speed), but I can't do anything with it, I run the "Setup.exe" file with Wine, but it gives an error, and I can't touch Lutris.

I don't mean new games, but retro and classics like older versions of Need For Speed, etc.

PlayonLinux would be a good alternative, but there it complains about Wine, some GPL Error if I remember correctly. I don't know how to install the drivers (AMD integrated GPU), I'm stupid for that.

Can you help me with instructions if possible? Because I don't know how to do this and I'm in the dark. I was thinking about systems like Nobara, but on Salix everything is doable I think, and I hate systemd distributions anyway.

So I should install Wine and the graphics drivers. Can you help me with this?

Thanks in advance, and have a nice day!

[ChuangTzu]

Play on Linux might be better. What specific error are you getting?

[lurker666]

Play on Linux might be better. What specific error are you getting?

Hi!

I installed PlayonLinux with all its components, so it works. But whatever I do in it, I keep getting the following error in the program -

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Error in POL_Wine
Wine seems to have crashed

If your program is running, just ignore this message

When I want to install a component, it says this. If I want to create something in it, it says this. I have installed Wine with great difficulty, but only the 64bit version is on the system, not the 32bit version. Another message when I open PlayonLinux:

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PlayOnLinux is unable to find 32bits OpenGL libraries.

You might encounter problem with your games

[gapan]

Try the flatpak:
https://flathub.org/apps/org.phoenicis.playonlinux

Wine needs 32bit libraries, which are not available in a 64bit installation. You could install multilib, but really, don't do that.

[lurker666]

Try the flatpak:
https://flathub.org/apps/org.phoenicis.playonlinux

Wine needs 32bit libraries, which are not available in a 64bit installation. You could install multilib, but really, don't do that.

I have installed PlayOnLinux without problems, the problem I think is with Wine. When I type

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wine

in Terminal, there is just

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wine64

is available. I think I need to install Wine32, just I don't know how can I do this. I don't find Wine32 In Slackbuilds, so I don't know this. It is possible to install it?

[gapan]

Wine should be available through the playonlinux flatpak, you won't find available by its own. So launching stuff from within playonlinux should work.

[inukaze]

Exist a lot of sofware you can use for Playing on GNU/Linux for example

1 - Native Videogames like :
Tux Kart , Super Tux, Pingus, Battle For Wesnoth, World Of Goo, Half-Life 1 + Expansions, Half-Life 2 + Episodes, Portal, Portal 1, Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3 Arena, Quake 3 Team Arena

On GOG website you can buy Natives Games [ If in you account the game is yours because, are not a license for use like another webs like Steam ]

2 - Software Suite : RetroArch, and the cores adaptations for libretro like : Emulators ( snes9x, mednafen, etc ) , Game Engines ( OpenLara, NXEngine, Cannonball, etc . . . )

3 - Compatibility Layer : Wine, Proton ( Wine + eSync + Dxvk )

4 - GUIs or FrontEnd for The Compatibility Layer : PlayOnLinux, Lutris, Q4Wine, WineBottles, Lutris

5 - Game Manager : Steam, Lutris, PlayOnLinux, Heoric Launcher

6 - Emulators like : snes9x, vbam, duckstation, mupen64plus, ppsspp, etc . . .

7 - Virtual Machines : VirtualBox , Qemu / kvm

8 - DOSBox-X , PCEm -> This software are a middle way between emulator and virtual-machine.

You have a lot of options

Just make most specific question and i can answer because i ever use GNU/Linux for playing games from 2004, but i had started to use GNU/Linux from 1998

[SlackCoder]

It looks like Wine no longer requires multi-lib installation.

https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/system/wine/

NOTES

64bit systems now default to the new WOW64 mode which builds both 64bit
and 32bit PE dlls. This has removed the multilib dependency that was
pereviously required and will allow execution of both 64bit and 32bit
binaries. No multilib required. Please see README.MULTILIB if you would
like to build a multilib wine using the legacy method.