Hello, I have finally decided to make the switch to linux! I am enjoying it very much and find myself vastly interested in all there is to learn from this community. That being said, I had a question in regards to gaming with Wine. I am currently running wine 4.0 and trying to play the remake of resident evil 2 through my steam account and keep getting an error D3D11 create device faild.(HRESULT: 80004005). I have spent a decent amount of time looking for fixes and haven't run into anything so any guidance would be much appreciated! Thanks in advanced for any help.

Hi!
Welcome to Linux! May I ask if you have a DX11 compatible GPU and if so, what resolution is the game attempting to render in and what resolution display you are using.

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Yes I just built a new computer 8700k intel radeon rx580 16gigs ddr4





as for your question for resolution rending I'm not exactly sure where I would find those values.

@neutronstarz

You might want to take a look at the DXVK project.
A third party compatibility layer, to translate DirectX 10+11 to Vulkan (which is not officially support on this website).
See: DXVK Wiki
See: Wikipedia: Vulkan_(API)
DXVK this tends to give much better performance, then wined3d - which uses the older Linux OpenGL graphics stack (to translate DirectX calls).
This is only the case for newer DirectX 10+11 titles.
But there is also a separate DXUP project, to translate DirectX 9 calls into DirectX 11 calls, which can run beside DXVK, in order to run DirectX 9 titles.

There has been some success getting Resident Evil 2 to run with DXVK.
See: Github doitsujin/dxvk : Issues "resident evil 2"

Getting Vulkan up-to-date, on Debian / Ubuntu, can be a real pain.
You need to get your whole graphics stack bang up-to-date (and not be using a 6 month old Mesa version, old kernel version, etc.)
I'd recommend looking / asking on Ask Ubuntu, reddit: /r/wine_gaming, etc.

Once you've done this step... You might also want to check out: Steam Support: Steam Play.
This is available, using the standard Linux Steam client.
This uses DXVK, "under the hood"... So again you'd need to ensure your Vulkan graphics stack was up-to-date.

Also... All new users, to Wine, are requested to read the WineHQ FAQ (in case you haven't already done so).

Bob

@neutronstarz

I also found this thread on reddit today: ~/linux_gaming : Resident Evil 2 playable with the latest DXVK and Proton and mfplat.dll workaround.

That might be useful to you, as well...

Bob

Thank you all so much for your help you have given me much homework to work with XD