#[Somewhat solved] Can't open .exe through WINE anymore

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fluid bloom
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(Fedora 37) I think this may have started after I installed protontricks to enable Rain World mods. I tried deleting my WINE configs, as well as reinstalling WINE itself, but I still can't open .exe files that I was able to just a few weeks before. The only app that gives me an error notification is Risk of Rain (the first one, running through a launcher other than Steam), and the reason says: wine64-preloader killed by SIGSEGV. I'm not sure where to find the logs or anything like that, I'm pretty new to Linux. It's also worth mentioning that Windows games opened through Steam via Proton work fine, it's just the games that I download from, say, itch.io that won't open anymore.

safe stone
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does winecfg open in a terminal successfully?

fluid bloom
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Yes, that worked!

safe stone
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interesting, so wine itself is still functional

fluid bloom
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I bet the problem has to do with wineprefix or something but I have no idea how any of that works

safe stone
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you can try a fresh wineprefix yeah

fluid bloom
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How can I reset it?

safe stone
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you can nuke the existing one by deleting the .wine folder or WINEPREFIX=(a different folder) wine (exe) to temporarily use a different one

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each wineprefix is its own virtual copy of windows

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steam uses its own for each individual proton game, which is likely why those still work

fluid bloom
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interesting

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I will try that momentarily

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okay, well a new .wine folder was generated on launch but it still failed.. let me see if I can copy the whole output from the launcher'

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s terminal thingy

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Maybe that will help?

safe stone
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interesting

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do things that aren't risk of rain load, by chance?

fluid bloom
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No

safe stone
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hmm

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i'll look into it

fluid bloom
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thanks a bunch

safe stone
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but at least it isn't just you

fluid bloom
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Thanks, I guess

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Hmmm

safe stone
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perhaps as a workaround you could use lutris or bottles in the meantime (both have their own copies of wine, and we know proton works)

fluid bloom
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I think I’ll try using bottles, I’ve heard good stuff about it

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Thanks for the advice

fluid bloom
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Well, Bottles seems to be working wonderfully for any itch.io games I have downloaded
Now for the hard part, getting RoR to work

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The launcher I'm using is made in gtk and it's able to edit mods, and it basically just runs the game using wine

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So I'm wondering if I can just edit my mods with the launcher and then open the .exe through bottles...

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I guess we'll see very soon

fluid bloom
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well, changing mods seems to work, and achievements also seem to sync. Thanks a lot!

safe stone
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blobokhand hopefully the upcoming ror remake will make things a bit more seamless for ya in future