Before you start trying to follow this guide, please understand that these instructions are
just detailing the way I chose to set up Lutris and install my game. Some of the steps may not be
completely necessary and some may be detrimental to your Linux distro. (In short if you choose to
change your Linux Kernel be sure you know what you are doing. I am not a Linux Guru and if you
mess up your system I can't help you fix it.)
just detailing the way I chose to set up Lutris and install my game. Some of the steps may not be
completely necessary and some may be detrimental to your Linux distro. (In short if you choose to
change your Linux Kernel be sure you know what you are doing. I am not a Linux Guru and if you
mess up your system I can't help you fix it.)
HP Pro Book 450 G3 i5-6200 @2.3GHZ
16GB Ram 500GB M.2 SSD
Dual Boot: Windows 10 H902 (Soon To Be History)
Customized Linux Mint 22.3 (Daily Driver)
I only ever use Windows for gaming, I won't even let
it use an internet connection, and I have been considering
deleting it completely for a long time. Today I finally
decided to install all of my games in Lutris and give Windows
the boot.
16GB Ram 500GB M.2 SSD
Dual Boot: Windows 10 H902 (Soon To Be History)
Customized Linux Mint 22.3 (Daily Driver)
I only ever use Windows for gaming, I won't even let
it use an internet connection, and I have been considering
deleting it completely for a long time. Today I finally
decided to install all of my games in Lutris and give Windows
the boot.
The first thing that I did was update the system:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install
Then I rebooted the system, which is not usually necessary but the
kernel updated this morning so a reboot was required.
Remember to make sure that you do not need to update / install any drivers..
The easiest way to do that is to open up 'System Settings' (check the "Start" menu
under 'Preferences' and once it is open scroll down to 'Driver Manager' (located at the bottom
under Administration) click on that and it will detect any missing drivers
sudo apt update && sudo apt install
Then I rebooted the system, which is not usually necessary but the
kernel updated this morning so a reboot was required.
Remember to make sure that you do not need to update / install any drivers..
The easiest way to do that is to open up 'System Settings' (check the "Start" menu
under 'Preferences' and once it is open scroll down to 'Driver Manager' (located at the bottom
under Administration) click on that and it will detect any missing drivers
Speaking of Kernel updates, I updated mine before I installed Lutris.
The way I did so was:
1. Open Up Update Manager (either find it in your "Start" menu or click the
icon on your taskbar.)
2. Once Update Manager is open click on view and select Linux Kernels
from the drop down menu. (A warning screen will pop up)
3. Click Continue and a list of Kernels will be displayed.
4. Click on the kernel that you want and a drop down menu will open.
5. Click the 'Install' button and let Linux install the kernel.
6. Click on 'Yes' When it asks if you're sure, and let the Kernel be installed.
7. Restart
The only reason I even updated the Kernel was because I was running such an old one
and I have heard that updated Kernels are better for gaming. It may not be necessary to
update the Kernel at all,
If in doubt install Lutris without a Kernel update and see it it runs.
Once the system has been rebooted then you can install Lutris.
The way I did so was:
1. Open Up Update Manager (either find it in your "Start" menu or click the
icon on your taskbar.)
2. Once Update Manager is open click on view and select Linux Kernels
from the drop down menu. (A warning screen will pop up)
3. Click Continue and a list of Kernels will be displayed.
4. Click on the kernel that you want and a drop down menu will open.
5. Click the 'Install' button and let Linux install the kernel.
6. Click on 'Yes' When it asks if you're sure, and let the Kernel be installed.
7. Restart
The only reason I even updated the Kernel was because I was running such an old one
and I have heard that updated Kernels are better for gaming. It may not be necessary to
update the Kernel at all,
If in doubt install Lutris without a Kernel update and see it it runs.
Once the system has been rebooted then you can install Lutris.
1. Open up your terminal (Either use Ctrl + Alt + T or click icon on tool bar.)
2. sudo apt install -y lutris
3. Press Enter and let the program install.
Once it is done installing you can open the program two ways: either by finding the icon in your "Start" menu
or typing lutris in the terminal and pressing enter.
2. sudo apt install -y lutris
3. Press Enter and let the program install.
Once it is done installing you can open the program two ways: either by finding the icon in your "Start" menu
or typing lutris in the terminal and pressing enter.
I buy my games through GOG and keep downloaded copies locally so I will be doing an offline install.
1. If you are like me and keep your installation files zipped up in an external drive then plug in the drive and mount it. (It should mount automatically) and open the folder where your games are kept. (example: /media/Backup/Games/Saints Row/Saints Row 2)
2. Open the folder and right click on the zip file then choose 'Extract Here'
3. Let the files extract.
4. Once the extraction is complete you should be looking at at least one exe and two bin files. (SR2 has two exe files one is a language patch)
Open Lutris if you haven't already as we are ready to begin installing the game.
1. If you are like me and keep your installation files zipped up in an external drive then plug in the drive and mount it. (It should mount automatically) and open the folder where your games are kept. (example: /media/Backup/Games/Saints Row/Saints Row 2)
2. Open the folder and right click on the zip file then choose 'Extract Here'
3. Let the files extract.
4. Once the extraction is complete you should be looking at at least one exe and two bin files. (SR2 has two exe files one is a language patch)
Open Lutris if you haven't already as we are ready to begin installing the game.
1. Click the '+' sign at the top of the Lutris window
2. Under the 'Game Info' window type in your game name in this Case Saints Row 2
3. Under 'Runner' choose Wine
4. If you wish to then under 'Release Year' add the year. In this case I think it's 2009
5. Click over to 'Game Options' and under executable use the 'Browse' button to find and point to your Installation file.
6. Unless you need to set arguments you can leave that line blank.
7. Leave working directory blank
8. Wine Prefix is just the folder that you have chosen to install your game in. (Basically
it creates a mini c: drive in a selected folder.)
9. Create a folder somewhere in your computer (I chose to create mine in my home directory
and I called it games (so '~/games.)) (Do this in your GUI or the terminal NOT in Lutris)
10. Leave prefix architecture set as Auto (default)
11. Click 'Save' button in the bottom corner
12. You will be sent back to the games screen with an tile for your game listed.
13. Click on your game and a little button will show up at the bottom of the program screen
that says 'Play'
15. Click on the 'Play' button and your game should start installing.
Don't be concerned it it takes a moment to start installing. If everything is working
correctly you will see the normal GOG offline installer pop up and start installing.
Just let it install as normal.
16. Once the install is done then you need to right click on the game entry and choose configure.
17. Now just point the executable (under Game Options) to the game executable (in this case
SR2_pc.exe (which will be located in the GOG Games Saints Row 2 (Or whatever you named it)) folder
in your Prefix directory.
Now you can click Play and start your game.
2. Under the 'Game Info' window type in your game name in this Case Saints Row 2
3. Under 'Runner' choose Wine
4. If you wish to then under 'Release Year' add the year. In this case I think it's 2009
5. Click over to 'Game Options' and under executable use the 'Browse' button to find and point to your Installation file.
6. Unless you need to set arguments you can leave that line blank.
7. Leave working directory blank
8. Wine Prefix is just the folder that you have chosen to install your game in. (Basically
it creates a mini c: drive in a selected folder.)
9. Create a folder somewhere in your computer (I chose to create mine in my home directory
and I called it games (so '~/games.)) (Do this in your GUI or the terminal NOT in Lutris)
10. Leave prefix architecture set as Auto (default)
11. Click 'Save' button in the bottom corner
12. You will be sent back to the games screen with an tile for your game listed.
13. Click on your game and a little button will show up at the bottom of the program screen
that says 'Play'
15. Click on the 'Play' button and your game should start installing.
Don't be concerned it it takes a moment to start installing. If everything is working
correctly you will see the normal GOG offline installer pop up and start installing.
Just let it install as normal.
16. Once the install is done then you need to right click on the game entry and choose configure.
17. Now just point the executable (under Game Options) to the game executable (in this case
SR2_pc.exe (which will be located in the GOG Games Saints Row 2 (Or whatever you named it)) folder
in your Prefix directory.
Now you can click Play and start your game.
The first time I started my game it was in full screen and there ware green bars partially obscuring
the picture, I did some research and the remedy was to right click the game tile and choose
configure then under the 'Runner Options' tab scroll down to 'Enable AMD Fidelity/FX Super Resolution
(FSR) and tick the switch for it, and then while in the same menu click 'Virtual Desktop Resolution'
and set it to 800 x 600.
Note: Some guides will tell you to try turning on 'Fsync' or to turn on 'Windowed Virtual Desktop'
and I did try both of those options, but with them on my game refused to load at all.
Note 2: I am not certain why the AMD setting worked for me as I am running Intel graphics, but I'm not going
to complain about it.
the picture, I did some research and the remedy was to right click the game tile and choose
configure then under the 'Runner Options' tab scroll down to 'Enable AMD Fidelity/FX Super Resolution
(FSR) and tick the switch for it, and then while in the same menu click 'Virtual Desktop Resolution'
and set it to 800 x 600.
Note: Some guides will tell you to try turning on 'Fsync' or to turn on 'Windowed Virtual Desktop'
and I did try both of those options, but with them on my game refused to load at all.
Note 2: I am not certain why the AMD setting worked for me as I am running Intel graphics, but I'm not going
to complain about it.
The first few times I started my game I had sound during the Splash Screens but not during game play
Apparently this is caused by missing i386 architecture for 32bit games. To fix the problem I performed
a few steps and I'm not really sure which one fixed the problem.
Firstly under 'Runner Options' I changed my audio driver to PulseAudio (which is correct for my system)
then under 'System Options' I turned on reset PulseAudio. then I typed a couple of commands in my terminal
dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libpulse0:i386
which would have installed any possibly missing files such as lib32-libpulse
however my system informed me that I had all necessary files and that they were all
up to date.
With Saints Row 2 selected look at the bottom of the Lutris screen right next to the play button
and you will see a little red button with white on it. Click the button and then select 'Wine Tricks'
A little menu will pop up where you will choose the 'Install An Application' option. Then press OK.
In the next window that opens scroll down and select the XACT Options (both of them) then press OK
and let them install.
Once they are done close all program windows and shut down Lutris. Then restart your computer.
Everything should work fine now.
Apparently this is caused by missing i386 architecture for 32bit games. To fix the problem I performed
a few steps and I'm not really sure which one fixed the problem.
Firstly under 'Runner Options' I changed my audio driver to PulseAudio (which is correct for my system)
then under 'System Options' I turned on reset PulseAudio. then I typed a couple of commands in my terminal
dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libpulse0:i386
which would have installed any possibly missing files such as lib32-libpulse
however my system informed me that I had all necessary files and that they were all
up to date.
With Saints Row 2 selected look at the bottom of the Lutris screen right next to the play button
and you will see a little red button with white on it. Click the button and then select 'Wine Tricks'
A little menu will pop up where you will choose the 'Install An Application' option. Then press OK.
In the next window that opens scroll down and select the XACT Options (both of them) then press OK
and let them install.
Once they are done close all program windows and shut down Lutris. Then restart your computer.
Everything should work fine now.
I noticed that when I started playing one of my games my sound started popping and crackling
it sounded similar to a vinyl record popping or music clipping and the volume dropped low and couldn't be turned up.
The first thing I did was exit my game and see if the symptom carried over into the OS (instead of just Lutris)
and when I did I opened a terminal and typed in
'pulseaudio -k' the pressed 'Enter' which raised to volume up and stopped the pops and crackles.
I will have to look for a lasting solution if this fails to fix the problem but for now it is a workaround.
it sounded similar to a vinyl record popping or music clipping and the volume dropped low and couldn't be turned up.
The first thing I did was exit my game and see if the symptom carried over into the OS (instead of just Lutris)
and when I did I opened a terminal and typed in
'pulseaudio -k' the pressed 'Enter' which raised to volume up and stopped the pops and crackles.
I will have to look for a lasting solution if this fails to fix the problem but for now it is a workaround.
I have a problem. Since I had to install the 32-bit architecture for my audio to function properly
I can't use wine cmd in Terminal to run GOTR. I keep receiving the error:
'\home\dreadnaught\.wine' is a 64-bit installation, it cannot be used with a 32-bit wineserver.
So I started researching it but couldn't find a solution that worked for me, so what I did was:
I moved my copy the GOTR folder into my prefix drive:
\home\dreadnaught\Games\drive_c
then I opened Lutris and clicked on my Saints Row Two game tile just so that the options
would show up at the bottom of the Lutris screen.
Once they showed up I clicked on the Red Button with the white icon and selected 'Open Wine Console'
When the window opened the first thing I did was change the path which originally read z:\home\dreadnaught\games
by typing in cd \ and pressing 'ENTER' which dropped my to a Z:\ prompt
Then I changed to the "C" drive by typing in ' c: ' and pressing enter
Now that I am in the 'C' drive I type in cd GOTR and press 'ENTER' which puts me in the correct folder.
and then I can either type in 'Create_Custom_GotR_v1.9.2.bat' pr copy and paste it
at the prompt then just press 'Enter' and the program will run as normal.
Note: Substitute proper names and paths for your installs. Those that I have used are only examples.
I can't use wine cmd in Terminal to run GOTR. I keep receiving the error:
'\home\dreadnaught\.wine' is a 64-bit installation, it cannot be used with a 32-bit wineserver.
So I started researching it but couldn't find a solution that worked for me, so what I did was:
I moved my copy the GOTR folder into my prefix drive:
\home\dreadnaught\Games\drive_c
then I opened Lutris and clicked on my Saints Row Two game tile just so that the options
would show up at the bottom of the Lutris screen.
Once they showed up I clicked on the Red Button with the white icon and selected 'Open Wine Console'
When the window opened the first thing I did was change the path which originally read z:\home\dreadnaught\games
by typing in cd \ and pressing 'ENTER' which dropped my to a Z:\ prompt
Then I changed to the "C" drive by typing in ' c: ' and pressing enter
Now that I am in the 'C' drive I type in cd GOTR and press 'ENTER' which puts me in the correct folder.
and then I can either type in 'Create_Custom_GotR_v1.9.2.bat' pr copy and paste it
at the prompt then just press 'Enter' and the program will run as normal.
Note: Substitute proper names and paths for your installs. Those that I have used are only examples.
Move the Thomas Jepp Tools folder into the prefix drive:
\home\dreadnaught\Games\drive_c
Open Lutris and click on my Saints Row Two game tile just so that the options
would show up at the bottom of the Lutris screen.
Click on the Red Button with the white icon and selected 'Open Wine Console'
When the window opens change the path which originally read z:\home\dreadnaught\games
by typing in cd \ and pressing 'ENTER' which wukk drop you to a ' z: ' prompt
Change to the "C" drive by typing in ' c: ' and pressing enter
Now in the 'C' drive I type in cd Thiomas Jepp Tools *or whatever your folder is called) and press 'ENTER' which puts me in the correct folder. and then you can either type in or copy and paste the name of the tool that you wish to run.
\home\dreadnaught\Games\drive_c
Open Lutris and click on my Saints Row Two game tile just so that the options
would show up at the bottom of the Lutris screen.
Click on the Red Button with the white icon and selected 'Open Wine Console'
When the window opens change the path which originally read z:\home\dreadnaught\games
by typing in cd \ and pressing 'ENTER' which wukk drop you to a ' z: ' prompt
Change to the "C" drive by typing in ' c: ' and pressing enter
Now in the 'C' drive I type in cd Thiomas Jepp Tools *or whatever your folder is called) and press 'ENTER' which puts me in the correct folder. and then you can either type in or copy and paste the name of the tool that you wish to run.
First thing to do is search for a dark theme. I found one 'Wine Breeze Dark Theme" on github
(gist.github.com/Zeinok/ceaf6ff204792dde0ae31e0199d89398) add https:// to the address to use the link.
The way to use this theme is to find the 'Wine Breeze Dark Theme reg' section and click on the raw button
A page will open with text on it
Select all the text on the page and copy it into a blank text file making sure that when you save it you
save it with the '.reg' extention.
Open up lutris and left click on a game to get the buttons to pop up at the bottom of the screen.
Click on the red and white button and choose 'Wine Registry'
Click on the 'Registry' Tab at the top of the screen.
Click on 'Import Registry File'
And when the window pops up point it to where you saved your .reg file
Select the file and click Ok and the file will be added to the registry.
Close Registry and open 'Wine Configuration'
Click on the 'Desktop' tab and male sure that theme is set to '(No Theme)' otherwise the
registry entries will not work.
Close wine and Lutris then restart the program.
(gist.github.com/Zeinok/ceaf6ff204792dde0ae31e0199d89398) add https:// to the address to use the link.
The way to use this theme is to find the 'Wine Breeze Dark Theme reg' section and click on the raw button
A page will open with text on it
Select all the text on the page and copy it into a blank text file making sure that when you save it you
save it with the '.reg' extention.
Open up lutris and left click on a game to get the buttons to pop up at the bottom of the screen.
Click on the red and white button and choose 'Wine Registry'
Click on the 'Registry' Tab at the top of the screen.
Click on 'Import Registry File'
And when the window pops up point it to where you saved your .reg file
Select the file and click Ok and the file will be added to the registry.
Close Registry and open 'Wine Configuration'
Click on the 'Desktop' tab and male sure that theme is set to '(No Theme)' otherwise the
registry entries will not work.
Close wine and Lutris then restart the program.
Open 'Wine Regedit'
Open the 'HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG>Software>Fonts' key and change the 'LogPixels'setting
If LogPixels doesn't exist create it as a DWORD
Double click the LogPixels entry and change the value to suit you
for instance I use '132' which creates an extra large font.
Open the 'HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG>Software>Fonts' key and change the 'LogPixels'setting
If LogPixels doesn't exist create it as a DWORD
Double click the LogPixels entry and change the value to suit you
for instance I use '132' which creates an extra large font.
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