Box86 and Wine on RPi4

ecto

@shavecat Download this file and run it in Wine Explorer. I can't remember exactly, but you probably have to select the directory where HoMM3 is installed(*) and then you get a new executable (which is basically a launcher where you can select different options of the mod):

Make sure to select ddraw as "Color Mode" (at least none of the "stretchable" renderers) and select your resolution. You can also select "Create HD exe", which you can then use to start HoMM3 directly without the launcher.

I hope this helps. The game looks great with the HD mod, and I think you can deselect a lot of extras so the game feels more vanilla.
I'm usually patching the hell out of all my games, because I think that should I ever get around playing the games, I want to play them as comfortable as it gets! :)

(*) It's advisable to select your ~/RetroPie/roms/wine directory as a volume (like d:) with winecfg. This way it's easier to navigate to the games in wine.

shavecat

@ecto
file not find download :\

ecto

@shavecat huh. I can see... The page is gone... maybe it will come back later? But I guess the mod can be found elsewhere.

shavecat

@ecto
so i dont get it..
with this mod ? its working ?
i can play for hours ? :O

ecto

@shavecat Sorry, I don't know. It's at least another way to get it to work. I was able to start a quick match without crash and there ended my testing (less than 1 minute that I tried). But please post your results should or shouldn't it work.

shavecat

@ecto
still got stuck :\

Diablo 2 also not working right in my place too tons of glitch's . :\

ecto

@shavecat OK. I tested the game for some time (10mins) and it went really well. I haven't had a crash or anything. Of course it's still possible that the game might
crash later on...
I also have Diablo 2 running quite nicely. What did you do to install it? I'm using the QoL patches with the ddraw renderer. The glide renderer doesn't work for me.

ecto

New running games:

Sin Gold the latest GOG version runs out of the box with highest settings (even in 1920x1080, although a little slow and with a tiny HUD. So I prefer 1280x720)
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 GOG comes with the plus patch, which also renders in 800x600. The (opening) videos are glitched, but gameplay seems to be fast and fluent.

Where I have some problems is Alien vs. Predator Classic 2000 from GOG. The game runs out of the box, Fullscreen and very fluent, but after some time there are some texture errors: They glow in bright colors and the lighting gets bright and glitchy. I'd think this should be fixable, but I don't know how...

Good_Punk

I've installed Box86 and Wine from the RetroPieSetup but when I start Wine Desktop or the other shortcuts it will randomly crash (just goes back to EmulationStation) after 15-60 seconds.
I have it installed on a Pi 400, with a 1024x768 mini LCD.

Any ideas? Is there a log file I could look into? (Sorry, I'm really new to Linux and Wine 😅)

Also after installing Box86 I've got an error message that he was missing the LICENSE directory.
PS: Ok I've just added an empty LICENSE directory in the tmp folder and now it ran through without any errors.

Wine is still crashing though.

shavecat

@ecto
Wow love that
so i also wants diablo 2 to work
and with the hereos 3 can u tell me what your config is ? with the mod ?

Thanks alot ! <3

ecto

@good_punk said in Box86 and Wine on RPi4:

I've installed Box86 and Wine from the RetroPieSetup but when I start Wine Desktop or the other shortcuts it will randomly crash (just goes back to EmulationStation) after 15-60 seconds.
I have it installed on a Pi 400, with a 1024x768 mini LCD.

Any ideas? Is there a log file I could look into? (Sorry, I'm really new to Linux and Wine 😅)

Also after installing Box86 I've got an error message that he was missing the LICENSE directory.
PS: Ok I've just added an empty LICENSE directory in the tmp folder and now it ran through without any errors.

Wine is still crashing though.

You can always have a look at /dev/shm/runcommand.log, but in my experience, wine either starts or crashes before starting.
I don't know why, but sometimes I have to try 2-3 times until wine starts. Usually after that, it works right away...

hooperre

See Post Here For Updated List of Games I Have Running: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/29241/the-which-games-works-with-box86-wine-topic-on-the-retropie-rpi4-400/89

ecto

@shavecat I can paste my HD Mod config file which you can find here: HoMM3/_HD3_Data/Settings/sod.ini:

<Version> = 5002362
<Language> = "#en.ini"
<Graphics.Resolution> = 1280x720
<Graphics.Mode> = 4
<Graphics.ComplexFilter> = 0
<Graphics.Threads> = 1
<Graphics.SimpleFilter> = 2
<Graphics.SystemCursors> = 1
<HD+> = 1
<HD+.RecentTimers> = "01:00 + 01:00 + 00:00", "01:00 + 01:00 + 00:00", "01:00 + 01:00 + 00:00", "01:00 + 01:00 + 00:00", "01:00 + 01:00 + 00:00", "00:00 + 00:00 + 00:00"
<HD+.Settings> = 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 6, 0
<Memory.Mod> = 0
<Misc.TournamentSaver> = 0
<Misc.BattleSaver> = 0
<Packs>
<Sys.NoCD> = 1
<Sys.CPU.ReduceUsage> = 0
<Sys.WriteToIniInsteadRegistry> = 1
<UI.AdvMgr.SkipMapMsgs> = 1
<UI.Battle.Queue> = 1
<UI.Battle.ShowAlwaysHeroInfo> = 1
<UI.ClipCursor> = 1
<UI.DarkTransitions> = 1
<UI.Ext.ScenarioMgr.Settings> = 3, 72, 2, 2, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1
<UI.Ext.ScenarioMgr.Folders> = 1
<UI.Ext.TownMgr.AvailableInsteadGrowth> = 1
<UI.HiRezCore> = 1
<UI.QuickArmyManagementMode> {0, 1} = 0
<UI.RecruitDlg.AutoSet> = 1
<UI.RecruitDlg.AutoSet.Max> = 0
<UI.Tavern.InviteHero> = 0
<Update.CheckAtStart> = 0

<OpenGL.Wrapper.Version> = 2
<OpenGL.FixedRefreshRate> = 1
<OpenGL.Interpolation> = 0
<OpenGL.Upscaling> = 0
<OpenGL.SingleWindow> = 1
<OpenGL.Renderer> = 0
<OpenGL.UpdateMode> = 1
<OpenGL.SmoothMapScroll> = 1
<OpenGL.SmoothHeroMove> = 1
<OpenGL.Aspect> = 1
<OpenGL.VSync> = 1
<OpenGL.Benchmark> = 0
<OpenGL.Colors.HueSat> = 32768500
<OpenGL.Colors.RgbInput> = 65536000
<OpenGL.Colors.RedInput> = 65536000
<OpenGL.Colors.GreenInput> = 65536000
<OpenGL.Colors.BlueInput> = 65536000
<OpenGL.Colors.RgbGamma> = 500
<OpenGL.Colors.RedGamma> = 500
<OpenGL.Colors.GreenGamma> = 500
<OpenGL.Colors.BlueGamma> = 500
<OpenGL.Colors.RgbOutput> = 65536000
<OpenGL.Colors.RedOutput> = 65536000
<OpenGL.Colors.GreenOutput> = 65536000
<OpenGL.Colors.BlueOutput> = 65536000

<Show Intro> = 1
<AppPath> = "D:\HoMM3\"
<Music Volume> = 5
<Sound Volume> = 5
<Last Music Volume> = 5
<Last Sound Volume> = 5
<Walk Speed> = 3
<Computer Walk Speed> = 3
<Show Route> = 1
<Move Reminder> = 1
<Quick Combat> = 1
<Video Subtitles> = 1
<Town Outlines> = 1
<Animate SpellBook> = 1
<Window Scroll Speed> = 1
<Bink Video> = 0
<Blackout Computer> = 0
<First Time> = 0
<Test Decomp> = 0
<Test Read> = 0
<Test Blit> = 0
<Unique System ID> = "GEX"
<Network Default Name> = "Player"
<Autosave> = 1
<Show Combat Grid> = 1
<Show Combat Mouse Hex> = 1
<Combat Shade Level> = 1
<Combat Army Info Level> = 1
<Combat Auto Creatures> = 1
<Combat Auto Spells> = 1
<Combat Catapult> = 1
<Combat Ballista> = 1
<Combat First Aid Tent> = 1
<Combat Speed> = 2
<Main Game Show Menu> = 1
<Main Game X> = 0
<Main Game Y> = 0
<Main Game Full Screen> = 1
<CDDrive>

<Graphics.DrawMap.Threads> = 0 {experimental tweak: multithread adventure map rendering}
<Graphics.DrawMap.ShowFPS> = 0 {for testing different Graphics.DrawMap.Threads values and different Graphics Modes}
<HD.QuickCombat> = 1

I suppose that only lines from 3-8 are important. But you can probably just copy over the whole text into your sod.ini. There is one game path in line 61 which you have to adjust.

Let's see if that helps ;)

Good_Punk

Hello, I could use some help with .conf files.
I've installed everything and Wine Desktop works fine when I use the "Run" option and start SimCity3000 that way.

But when I run my "Sim City 3000.conf" from the EmulationStation the screen just goes black for a few seconds and I'm back at Emulation Station. (tried quite a few times, never worked)

My config file looks like this:

DIRECTORY=/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/wine/Files/sc3000/
PROGRAM=/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/wine/Files/sc3000/sc3.exe
OPTIONS=

Any ideas? :)

George

@good_punk often programs will require additional libraries and windows DLLs to be installed via Wine Tricks. Does Wine Desktop work at all? I saw your previous post about that. Should probably make sure that you are using the "emulator" branch from GitHub.

Also, as @ecto mentioned, post your /dev/shm/runcommand.log output after running and perhaps there may be some error messages.

- George

honcoop91

i got the depends installed, but when i moved onto exp/box86, i got could not successfully install box86 emulator.
/home/pi/retropie-setup/tmp/build/box86/docs/license not found.
any help would be appreciated

Good_Punk

@honcoop91
I've just added and empty LICENSE folder manually to the tmp folder... after that it worked. 😅

Good_Punk

@george
Wine Desktop works and I can run all the game from the Startmenu->Run... they just don't work when I try to run then from the .conf files. I'll have a look at the runcommand.log later, thanks. :)

honcoop91

@good_punk tried that, but for some reason the box86 owner is root instead of pi, and im having trouble logging into that/getting permissions

Good_Punk

@honcoop91
Hm okay... I don't know much about Linux stuff. I've used the File Commander that came with RetroPie and that let me navigate to the tmp folder and create a new one.