Linux Guide for hosting the server on an actual server?

[celest moon]

I would love to be able to run this on my main Proxmox Box

[oak valley]

https://playwindrose.com/dedicated-server-guide/

[celest moon]

yes i see this

▸ Can I run on Linux / headless?
Currently Windows-only, unfortunately.

It was more of a request for compatability.

[astral lance]

Runs just fine on Proton/Wine, it just isnt something their team can provide support for ~

[daring portal]

Btw, we just released a docker container for it to make it even simpler
https://github.com/indifferentbroccoli/windrose-server-docker

[celest moon]

omg you are FANTASTIC

[balmy flint]

have you tried setting this up as a pterodactyl egg?

[daring portal]

I've not worked with making ptero eggs quite yet - we use a custom panel @ indifferentbroccoli

[modest shell]

fine work good sir, plug and play for me

[candid urchin]

https://github.com/pterodactyl/game-eggs/issues/513#issuecomment-4243704991

[candid urchin]

Oh really? I tried proton yolk and had System.PlatformNotSupportedException: Video driver not supported error. How are you running? For StarRupture (another egg I created) it was just proton run path/to/server/exe

[untold hull]

Update: Wine was working, i'm just an idiot and what i though was the server being halted was the server running normally

[modest shell]

the only strange thing i find with the server is that it consumes more processing power wheen no player is connected

[errant sable]

@daring portal Mind contacting me about this in DMs please?

[astral lance]

You need a video driver
xvfb-run <display info for height/width/etc) proton run <executable>

[daring portal]

Sure thing

[candid urchin]

I tried xvfb too, odd. Anyway runs fine under Wine without it so switched to that for a simpler egg with no external dependencies.

[blissful wharf]

I'm building a proton version and running the R5 WindroseServer-Win64-Shipping.exe directly.
It works without xvfb setup. I'm fiddling around a little more and share the repo shortly.

[errant sable]

If you got it working, contact me. I'd love to make a "full guide" about all ways on setting up a server with you as a contributor (credits etc).(if you want ofc)

[blissful wharf]

https://github.com/mornedhels/windrose-server
I have both wine and proton version. Both seems to work and start up.

[wind furnace]

I have a server up and running with a friend on it using bog-standard wine with only vcrun2022 winetricked in to the prefix. Server is running Mint 22.3.

[gloomy parcel]

can confirm, headless ubuntu server here, running with screen, xvfb, and wine. winetricks win10, everything else running fine out of box (aside from local connection issue, they know and are working on that)

[calm fog]

Can confirm have a working server on linux using this docker container

[tropic crescent]

not OS related as far as i can tell, cause i found the same on Windows 11. also opened a ticket because of this issue(?)

[modest shell]

hey where can i report server crashes? i have these logs:
[2026.04.15-03.54.25:347][252]LogOutputDevice: Error: === Crash Stack Trace: ===

[2026.04.15-03.54.25:347][252]LogOutputDevice: Error:

[2026.04.15-03.54.25:347][252]LogOutputDevice: Error: [Callstack] 0x000000014ba5bc98 WindroseServer-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []

[2026.04.15-03.54.25:347][252]LogOutputDevice: Error: [Callstack] 0x000000014ba59f6e WindroseServer-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []

[2026.04.15-03.54.25:348][252]LogOutputDevice: Error: [Callstack] 0x000000014bf890ef WindroseServer-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []

[2026.04.15-03.54.25:348][252]LogOutputDevice: Error: [Callstack] 0x000000007b627e49 kernel32.dll!BaseThreadInitThunk() [Z:\home\steam\server-files\R5\Binaries\Win64\dlls\kernel32\thread.c:61]

[2026.04.15-03.54.25:348][252]LogOutputDevice: Error: [Callstack] 0x000000017005dca8 ntdll.dll!RtlUserThreadStart() [Z:\home\steam\server-files\R5\Binaries\Win64\dlls\ntdll\thread.c:285]

[2026.04.15-03.54.25:348][252]LogOutputDevice: Error: [Callstack] 0x0000000000000000 UnknownFunction []

[2026.04.15-03.54.25:348][252]LogOutputDevice: Error: [Callstack] 0x000000014bf89040 WindroseServer-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []

[2026.04.15-03.54.25:348][252]LogOutputDevice: Error: [Callstack] 0x00000000036ebf20 UnknownFunction []

[2026.04.15-03.54.25:348][252]LogOutputDevice: Error: [Callstack] 0x0000000000000000 UnknownFunction []

[2026.04.15-03.54.25:348][252]LogOutputDevice: Error:

[swift horizon]

I made a LinuxGSM style version, its currently Slackware focused (its what I use). I might try to make it more distro agnostic another time later if anyone is interested (maybe a select distro or have it autodetect) https://github.com/StarTuz/windroselinux

[daring portal]

+1
Seeing the same crash on some servers

[modest shell]

so my crashes happen when somebody is connecting to the server and were doing a battle over sea

[spring hamlet]

My server is having the same issue

[daring portal]

Seeing similar issues. @modest shell Are you using our container? We released an update today that should help with stability

[modest shell]

yes i saw that and build the image, and it has been a lot smoother for now, some little lag spikes but no hard crashes when someone connects

[static egret]

Massive thanks for this - just followed your guide, and can confirm it works in a Debian LXC on Proxmox (with a few tweaks to install packages from the correct locations)

[bronze horizon]

It's likely the few lines above this that will outline the real issue if it was caught before the crash.

If you're using Windrose Dedicated on a Linux box you're likely to get into a networking assert error eventually([b]ASSERTION FAILED: result.bytes_transferred == buffer_->Length()[/b]), upgrade wine to at least 9.18 to fix it.

Here's the bug report and resolution:
Google: winehq show_bug 10648

And how to update to the latest by skipping your distro's version, at least a guide I used. Note, make /sure/ you get rid of all pieces parts of wine from your distro before upgrading.
Google: gitlab winehq debian-ubuntu