Win98/WinXP retrogaming on wine tips

[efinitoilvino]

Hi there. I'm a Wine beginner and I would like to set up some retrogaming prefixes for win98/winxp games I haven'thad the occasion to replay in a LONG time. The problem is only one of them ( Discworld Noir) launched and played from start to finish out of the box. The others won't launch, even if they are listed as bronze and platinum on the appdb, apart from one (black dahlia) which is not present and cannot install.
Can you please tell me how to correctly configure a wineprefix for this use case? Thanks.
Paolo

[jkfloris]

These are old games. Try to run them in a 32-bit Wineprefix.

Create a 32-bit prefix

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WINEPREFIX=~/retrogames WINEARCH=win32 wineboot

Install the game

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cd "/path/to/the/installer"
WINEPREFIX=~/retrogames wine install.exe

Run the game

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cd "${HOME}/retrogames/drive_c/path/to/the/old/game"
WINEPREFIX=~/retrogames wine game.exe

If a 32-bit prefix does not help, post the terminal output.

[Natanox]

if you game doesn't start try using dgvoodoo2. It's able to also wrap older DirectX versions as well as (apparently) DirectDraw to DirectX 9, which more often than not can fix weird bugs with very old titles.

Also very usable to manage multiple prefixes for games in a tidy fashion would be to use Lutris instead of pure wine & CLI.