Wine never, Updates. Lagging.

[Motley]

Okay so I have Zorin OS ultimate.

After attempting to play a game "GTA III" The games textures are way off, It is as if the FPS is lagged to an extent as well, The movies in the begging of the game never play either (If that helps anyone that will help me).

I figured I should upgrade wine to the newest updated edition, It appears that wine does not actually update and I would like to think this is my actual issue, In wine configure, in details, It still says "Wine 1.6.2" not 1.8 etc.....

Any more documented info can be released just let me know

Thanks
~Motley

[dimesio]

My guess is that you are trying to update Wine from your distro's repository, which probably doesn't include the latest release.

Since Zorin is based on Ubuntu, you should be able to use the WineHQ packages. https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu

[Motley]

My issue was solved

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sudo apt-get install -y wine1.8

The other issue I was told about was more than likely a crappy built in direct x that was added to Zorin on install, So now I am trying to find a correct tutorial on that..

[bush5150]

I had an issue with other games using DirectX in Wine and managed to get them playable by updating to the most recent developer version of Wine. Wine has builtin DirectX modules with little to no need to install any others and the new push (1.9.13) has added support for DirectX.

Here's what I did:
1. I removed wine, winetricks, and anything in my system with wine in its name:

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$ dpkg-query --list 'wine*'

and note each instance with "ii" in the far left column (meaning installed).
next, type

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$ sudo apt-get remove wineversion

where version is replaced with the wine version noted in above dpkg query.
Example if wine version 1.8 is installed

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$ sudo apt-get remove wine1.8

do this for every instance of wine in the query (i.e. winetricks).
Run dpkg to make sure every instance of wine is removed (will "un" in far left column for uninstalled).
Once all says "un", run:

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$ which wine

and note the location (if there is any). the default is /usr/bin/wine
next run:

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$ rm -r ~/.wine
$ rm -r ~/usr/bin/wine
$ rm -r ~/usr/bin/wine*
$ rm -r ~/usr/local/share/wine

Last, run:

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$ sudo apt-get autoremove

2. add the wine repository, update and install newest developer version

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$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel

Once installed, you can run this to get it setup:

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$ winecfg

Install anything that it suggests (gecko, mono, etc.).

That's it. You should have most up to date wine.

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$ wine --version

should reflect 1.9.13

now install winetricks

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$ sudo apt-get install winetricks

and then install your game.

[Bob Wya]

...
now install winetricks

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$ sudo apt-get install winetricks

...

That's a great guide... The only problem is that there is no up-to-date PPA for winetricks anywhere... That will lead to problems using this helper script. When using older versionss, of the winetricks script, you will that: many Windows installer workarounds will break, URL's for Windows software will be broken, etc.
On Ubuntu it appears to be best just to pull down the winetricks script manually from Github... The latest release is 20160627 ...
Sucky, but that's one of the many reasons why I personally don't use Ubuntu / Debian very much...

The official WineHQ Ubuntu PPA only contains Wine packages...


Bob

[Motley]

Nothing but broken dependences, Cant install Wine either..

[bush5150]

Nothing but broken dependences, Cant install Wine either..

From the wine install guide found here for Ubuntu:

If apt-get complains about missing dependencies, install them, then repeat the last two steps (update and install).

Chances are your installation of Linux is lacking certain dependencies (mine was with Linux Mint 17.2). I installed each missing dependency and my problem was resolved.

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$ sudo apt-get install {enter missing dependency}

That's a great guide... The only problem is that there is no up-to-date PPA for winetricks anywhere... That will lead to problems using this helper script. When using older versionss, of the winetricks script, you will that: many Windows installer workarounds will break, URL's for Windows software will be broken, etc.

Thank you, Bob. I'm learning Linux. I love this stuff. True, no up-to-date PPA for winetricks. I have yet to need it for Wine 1.9.13, as everything is working well (not even a glitchy pixel in my DirectX games).

[Motley]

I was capable of installing 1.8

As well visual studio,. I just get crash logs with this. But is worth fooling with over time. Thank you Bush.
It took a long time ensuring I removed all of my wine related packages, Once doing so I really haven't had any issues.

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