Wine Dependency Hell Solver

Description

If you ever had issues launching or running software with Wine, then try this script. I made it as a replacement for Wine/Proton-tricks, it functions similarly to Valve's installscript.vdf. Because not every piece of software comes with all the required dependencies, this script installs every single required dependency. So you can spend more time on using the software you want and less time on tinkering.

The main goal of this project is to provide users with dependencies that Wine can't ship. For that reason WMP and Windows System Files aren't included here. If something still doesn't work after using this script and no Wine version fixes your issues, there's a good chance that you're trying to run a half-baked piece of software.

Tip

If you're having issues with your game or program of any kind try different Wine/Proton versions.

Why not use Wine/Proton-tricks?

Patching prefixes for each program can get really annoying if you have multiple things you need to configure and become a giant time-waster if some patch doesn't work well with a different one.

Contents

Dependency	What it fixes
DirectX End-User Runtimes	Video and audio playback, missing or broken in-game elements
Wine Mono & Microsoft .NET Desktop Runtime	Crashing programs, installers and games
NVIDIA PhysX	Crashes when relying heavily on the technology
Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Packages	Various crashes and missing .dll issues
Xvid MPEG-4 Video Codec	Video playback issues

Instructions

Make sure to have the following packages installed before proceeding: 7z wget.

1. Run this command in your terminal.

   bash <(wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FanderWasTaken/wine-dependency-hell-solver/main/WDHS.sh)
   

2. Start WDHS.bat with Wine.

Additional configuration

Even after installing all of these dependencies I still ran into some issues:

• Missing dlls (unarc.dll and ISDone.dll).
• Crashing games and installers.

Here are the solutions I've found:

Increase swap-file size to 2x the size of your RAM.

1. Disable the swap file with swapoff.

    sudo swapoff /swapfile
   

2. Resize the file using fallocate, in this instance to a 4GB swap file.

   sudo fallocate -l 4G /swapfile
   

3. Mark the file as a swapfile using mkswap.

   sudo mkswap /swapfile
   

4. Enable the swap file with swapon.

   sudo swapon /swapfile
   

5. Verify changes with swapon.

   swapon --show
   

Increase the value of vm.max_map_count.

1. Open /etc/sysctl.conf with nano.

   sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf
   

2. Add vm.max_map_count=1048576 to the end of the file and save using CTRL+X.

3. Verify changes with sysctl, the result should be 1048576.

   sysctl vm.max_map_count
   

Credits

• installscript.vdf | Valve
• Troubleshooting Guide | PCGamingWiki
• Reddit comment | acejavelin69
• Virtual memory | Elasticsearch
• Project was created with the help of Visual Studio Code ❤️

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