New to emulating Windows in Linux

[mgoodall]

I've only ever used Linux as it was installed, no special apps, and mainly for basic stuff.

Had a catastrophic Windows 10 boot loader system crash yesterday, and said screw it.. installed Ubuntu. Works beautifully. But I want to be able to play steam and Blizzard games. I looked for how to get world of warcraft running in Linux, and found this guide: https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-play-wor ... -with-wine which appeared to be the most update version.

It's a year out of date. as I stepped through the myriad of links, and followed to updated files/directions.. i was able to get the blizzard login working, then I got a black screen. I was getting an error about a missing ntml file in winetrics (Wine?). I found this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1090094 ... uth-3-0-25, and followed that.. now my wine completely locks up linux when I try to run blizzard launcher.

I am waiving a flag in defeat. I have been trying to get this to work since yesterday. Can anyone smarter than me please help me figure this out? I'm sure it doesn't help that blizzard just had huge update, or wine's about to have a new version released.. do I still need winetricks and lutris? I have no idea.. and do not want to get a new PC with Windows to play my games...

[invisible kid]

This is a good place to concentrate on, if you haven't already:

https://github.com/lutris/docs/blob/mas ... tle.Net.md

I recommend using wine-staging if you aren't already. Get Vulkan/dxvk working if you haven't already. I think last time the only winetricks I needed was for dxvk, that's using wine-staging version 6.0. Make sure you check for stale processes between runs(ps -ef | grep win; kill -9). Get multiarch or equivalent working if you haven't already. Get 64 bit and 32 bit drivers for your video card if you haven't already.

[fargodwe]

Oooppsss - someone with a lot more knowledge on this (invislbe kid) submitted their answer in between my reading of your post and submitting my original answers. So I have edited to remove my suggestions.

[invisible kid]

fargodwe: Maybe you should leave your ideas up! These are only things that I ran into in the past.

OP: Oh you mentioned ntml(ntml_auth?), that sounds related to libgnutls30:i386, it's listed with other packages for the various distros at that link I gave upthread.