Heads up for Linux users... problems with WINE versions > 9.20

[mechahamham]

I tried launching CoH this evening under both Wine 9.21 and 9.22, but cohgame.exe hung after the login screen. However, dropping back to 9.20 allowed login and play as usual.

 

To be clear, this doesn't seem to be a problem with CoH, but seems to be a Wine problem. There are some other games impacted, like LOTRO.

 

(I was up in the air on whether I should post to the bug reports forum. GMs, please feel free to move the topic if you think it's necessary.)

 

If you're on a rolling-release-style distribution or are installing from WineHQ directly (like you're using their PPAs on Debian-based OSes), you may want to consider holding back on upgrading past 9.20.

[DoctorDitko]

Thanks for the heads-up!

[Hatchet_Manners]

9 hours ago, mechahamham said:

I tried launching CoH this evening under both Wine 9.21 and 9.22, but cohgame.exe hung after the login screen. However, dropping back to 9.20 allowed login and play as usual.

 

To be clear, this doesn't seem to be a problem with CoH, but seems to be a Wine problem. There are some other games impacted, like LOTRO.

 

(I was up in the air on whether I should post to the bug reports forum. GMs, please feel free to move the topic if you think it's necessary.)

 

If you're on a rolling-release-style distribution or are installing from WineHQ directly (like you're using their PPAs on Debian-based OSes), you may want to consider holding back on upgrading past 9.20.

 

Thanks. What distro do you use? Gentoo appears to still be a few versions away from 9.21. Stable is currently on 9.0.

[mechahamham]

4 minutes ago, Hatchet_Manners said:

Thanks. What distro do you use? Gentoo appears to still be a few versions away from 9.21. Stable is currently on 9.0.

 

Currently, Endeavour, which installs Wine straight from the Arch repos by default.

[GM Manga]

This is why I test and freeze the version of Wine that LaunchCat and Island Rum use.  I've run into rogue Wine versions before that don't work.

[mechahamham]

48 minutes ago, GM Manga said:

This is why I test and freeze the version of Wine that LaunchCat and Island Rum use.  I've run into rogue Wine versions before that don't work.

 

Wine is one huge collection of edge-cases. It's amazing it doesn't break more often than it does.

 

I've watched my darling spouse STRUGGLE to get the exact right combination of Proton versions and/or Winetricks configs to make games like Fallout 4 work. Bethesda had a big update earlier in the year that broke several previous years' worth of fixes.

[Psyonico]

Thanks for the heads up.

 

I'm on Fedora 41/ Gnome, and am pretty sure I haven't updated yet, so I'll keep my eyes open for this.

[GM Manga]

If it helps any of you, LaunchCat and Island Rum are frozen on the Wine 9.0 version currently, and it’s working fine.