DotNet

DotNet

Many 3rd party tools require dotnet (mostly dotnet48) to be installed (f.e. Vortex, but many others as well).

wine versions below 6.6 have issues with installing dotnet48 (see https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49897 (ff) for more info)

Currently (2021.09) the official Proton Wine version is 6.3, so it is not compatible, and all custom Proton versions (Proton-GE, Proton-tkg) with a new enough Wine version aren't compatible either, because they all use Wine staging, which also doesn't install dotnet48 correctly.

Vanilla Wine builds 6.16 and 6.17 (6.18 had a blocking bug f.e. from Kron4ek do install dotnet48 correctly, but they don't use the SteamUser, instead using the regular Linux user, and are therefore not a solution for tinkergame.

The only options I currently see are

• wait for an official Proton Wine version >=6.6
• roll a custom Proton with an up-to-date vanilla Wine

There doesn't seem to be any pre-compiled custom Proton with vanilla Wine. I uploaded a self-rolled (using TKG) proton without staging wine-6.17.r0.ga8583acae95 ( TkG Plain Esync ) here which installs dotnet48 correctly (no changes were made to the original source code). I'll use this as the default dotnet Proton version for Vortex and possibly also Mod-Organizer 2 until an official Proton version with a compatible Wine version is available. This upstream warning also applies to this custom build, so if it doesn't work on your system, you need to compile it yourself.

Update 2022.02: Installation seemed to work fine using Proton-7.2-GE-2, the dotnet installation (mscorsvw.exe) caused a coredump though. Anyway, the installed dotnet/vortex combo seems to work, and all Vortex compatible installed games were added as expected as well. I haven't started any game or mod. The default USEVORTEXPROTON will remain Proton-6.17-STL-1 anyway for now (see #393)

Update 2022.04: Installation seems to work fine using GE-Proton7-13 and Vortex seems to work as well when using it. MO2 no longer seems to require DotNet at all. I'll leave this wiki for a while here, and either remove it completely later or cross it out for the future.