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Getting Started With Wine

Cyberarm edited this page Mar 13, 2026 · 15 revisions

Most Distributions

Install wine and winetricks from your package manager. The Launcher will auto detect the system-wide wine installation.

Important

The Direct 3D Shader Compiler MUST be installed otherwise games WILL crash immediately after launching.

It can be installed through the winetricks tool or your wine manager.

For example: WINEPREFIX="PREFIX_PATH" winetricks d3dcompiler_47

Bottles Gaming bottle template includes it by default.

Bazzite and Bazzite-like

Bazzite doesn't offer a system-wide wine installation and recommends using a wine manager such as Lutris, Bottles, etc.

Create a new bottle for W3D Hub games

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Wait for it to fill up

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Open Options

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Browse C:/ Drive

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Navigate Up One Level to Get Wine Prefix Path

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Navigate Up a Couple Directories to Find Where Bottles Stores Its Runners

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Navigate Through to find the Runner Used For Your Bottle

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Find Wine Executable Path

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Update Launcher's Wine Settings

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Known Issues

Game instantly closes when entering an aircraft

Your wine version doesn't implement __std_smf_hypot3f, use a newer version of wine.

Game instantly crashes at start up

You probably don't have the DirectX Shader Compiler installed. See Important note at top of page.

Install d3dcompiler_47 through your wine manager or winetricks.

Game colors are washed out or otherwise off

Install dxvk through your wine manager or winetricks, if your GPU supports vulkan.