The game is Juiced (2005)

I’m normally pretty good at getting old janky PC ports running but this ones stumped me after multiple attempts.

Tried running through Lutris, Bottles, Heroic and base system Wine. using many old and new versions of wine/proton.

DXVK, D3D, Different directx dependancies through winetricks and even tracking down an old Directx9c Windows installer and installing that in the prefix but even that didn’t help.

FIX here: I needed to install dxdiag through winetricks, which revealed a memory error that was fixed by downloading the 1.01 patch from here. I also switched to Wine-GE 8.26, using Proton the game would crash after the first loading screen.

I’m still working out how to get my controller fully working but that’s apparently an issue even on Windows sooo

  • Ech@lemmy.ca
    3·
    24 hours ago

    I can’t remember the hard way to do it with wine, but if you set it up to play through proton, protontricks is an app that will help you easily install these sorts of dependencies. Just find the game your trying to fix, select default wine prefix, install windows dll, then pick what’s missing.

    I think it’s mostly just winetricks, tbh, but set up to more easily find the relevant directories used by proton. Never used Lutris much, so not sure how finicky it is to use winetricks on.

    • Winning@lemmy.world
      2·
      24 hours ago

      Second protontricks.

      Also, when you open random exes with proton tricks, it will give you a list of existing proton instances. If you have a decent steam library already using proton, it’s going to be a list of installed games. If a game on there uses the dll that you need, you can just pick that game and you don’t need to setup anything, it already is.

      I asked Google for a list of games that use directx9c, and it gave me Fallout: New Vegas, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Portal (early builds/legacy render paths), Left 4 Dead 2, and Mirror’s Edge. L4d2 is free I think, so you can just install this game then run your game through that proton instance. Zero headache.

      This probably has some hidden caveat I’m not aware of, I’m just trying to play games.

    • HouseWolf@pawb.socialOPEnglish
      1·
      23 hours ago

      Sadly already tried many different versions of d3dx and other stuff listed as directx dependancies on Protontricks.