HELP: "This Application requires Windows Version 22H2 or higher"

[JohnTamale]

Background:

Bought some software a few ago. Then decided to ditch Windows as I hate Windows 11.
I settled with Nobara ( A fedora gaming spin).
Now I wanted to install this application, but the installer complains it needs version 22H2 or either Windows 10 64 bit or Windows 11.

Any suggestions?

Is there a way to emulate 22h2?

Or should I just throw the towel and use a VM?

[desessarts]

you can set the following Windows versions in wine

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$ winecfg /?

Usage: winecfg [options]

Options:
  [no option] Launch the graphical version of this program.
  /v          Display the current global Windows version.
  /v version  Set global Windows version to 'version'.
  /?          Display this information and exit.

Valid versions for 'version':

       win11  Windows 11
       win10  Windows 10
       win81  Windows 8.1
        win8  Windows 8
   win2008r2  Windows 2008 R2
        win7  Windows 7
     win2008  Windows 2008
       vista  Windows Vista
     win2003  Windows 2003
     winxp64  Windows XP 64
       winxp  Windows XP
       win2k  Windows 2000
       winme  Windows ME
       win98  Windows 98
       win95  Windows 95
        nt40  Windows NT 4.0
       nt351  Windows NT 3.51
       win31  Windows 3.1
       win30  Windows 3.0
       win20  Windows 2.0
gg@debian:~ $ 

here Debian 12 and

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$ wine --version
wine-9.19

[JohnTamale]

you can set the following Windows versions in wine

Code: Select all

$ winecfg /?

Usage: winecfg [options]

Options:
  [no option] Launch the graphical version of this program.
  /v          Display the current global Windows version.
  /v version  Set global Windows version to 'version'.
  /?          Display this information and exit.

Valid versions for 'version':

       win11  Windows 11
       win10  Windows 10
       win81  Windows 8.1
        win8  Windows 8
   win2008r2  Windows 2008 R2
        win7  Windows 7
     win2008  Windows 2008
       vista  Windows Vista
     win2003  Windows 2003
     winxp64  Windows XP 64
       winxp  Windows XP
       win2k  Windows 2000
       winme  Windows ME
       win98  Windows 98
       win95  Windows 95
        nt40  Windows NT 4.0
       nt351  Windows NT 3.51
       win31  Windows 3.1
       win30  Windows 3.0
       win20  Windows 2.0
gg@debian:~ $ 

here Debian 12 and

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$ wine --version
wine-9.19

Yes, but that is only for the full fledged versions. Aka "Windows 10" "Windows 11"and so on.
There is no "Windows 10 22H2". If I remember correctly. Wine uses kind of outdated versions for each Windows element.

[rontario]

Just a thought, but...
Have you tried W11? It would definitely include any updates applied to W10-22H2.

[JohnTamale]

Just a thought, but...
Have you tried W11? It would definitely include any updates applied to W10-22H2.

Sadly did not work.
It seems it requires Win 11 22:H2 as well when moving to Win11.

I tried even using the technique of editing the registry to match the Win 11 version I wanted.
The app ran, but it crashed.
So it definitively needs some special DLL.

Still.. I somehow managed to get it running on WINE using the latest staging and with the modification. Albeit bugs up from time to time.