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    The "which games works" with Box86/Wine topic on the RetroPie RPI4/400

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    • mth75
      mth75 last edited by mth75

      Inspired by the great scripting work of @George I will sum up which Window games work with the Box86/Wine combination on our Pi4's or 400's. George created install scripts which will install mesa with Vulkan support/ Box86 and Wine... this is the game changer.

      For installation instructions see:

      https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/28528/box86-and-wine-on-rpi4/

      I'm using Box86 v0.1.8 and Wine v-5.22

      I'm using the Box86 Master version (latest 0.2.1), Mesa 20.3.4 and Wine v-6.2

      All games stated below in separate replies run on my RetroPie 4 build, overclocked to 2100Mhz en Pi400 Raspian OS install overclocked to 2375Mhz/775Mhz (Gpu). All wine-prefixes (bottles) are build on my Pi400 and then exported to my Pi4.

      Please feel free to add your working Window games to this topic!

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      • mth75
        mth75 @mth75 last edited by mth75

        Age of Empires 2. Works stable, larger playfields can slow down the system but not always.

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        • mth75
          mth75 @mth75 last edited by mth75

          Commandos 1. Works very stable, no intro videos (wine issue).

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          • mth75
            mth75 @mth75 last edited by mth75

            The Settlers 3, no intro videos, works stable with occasional slowdowns.

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            • mth75
              mth75 @mth75 last edited by mth75

              Blitzkrieg 1 and Rolling Thunder/Burning Horizon works with videos (very nice videos even). Playing however will lead to throttling on the Pi4. Screenresolution 102476832 gives an acceptable performance. Map screen shows some distortion.

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              • mth75
                mth75 @mth75 last edited by mth75

                The game I absolutely want to play on my Pi4 ... Thimbleweed Park .... sound only ... no display output. So this is hopeful.

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                • mth75
                  mth75 @mth75 last edited by

                  Space Cadet, no music, other wise works fine, maybe some crackling sound, see fix in @George 's install topic.

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                  • ExarKunIv
                    ExarKunIv last edited by

                    @mth75 very nice. i think i might have to give this a try very soon. just been lazy lately. lol

                    RPi3 Model B / 200GB SanDisk microSD / RetroPie v4.5.14, and RPi4 Model B 4gb / 32gb / RetroPie 4.7.19

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                    • mth75
                      mth75 @ExarKunIv last edited by

                      Unreal Tournament, software rendering works. Still experimenting with other drivers.

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                      • shavecat
                        shavecat @mth75 last edited by shavecat

                        Heroes of might and magic 3
                        But always freeze in a driftnet place so not really playable
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                        • mth75
                          mth75 @shavecat last edited by

                          @shavecat said in The "what works" with Box86/Wine topic on the RPI4/400:

                          Heroes of might and magic 3
                          But always freeze in a driftnet place so not really playable
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                          Did you cut your Nespi case for a huge cooler :-) ... do you have detail photo's of the Nespi? Looks cool !

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                          • shavecat
                            shavecat @mth75 last edited by

                            @mth75
                            Shame
                            And yes i did Ahahah :) , its just a nespi case 3 but i switch to pi 4 so i did the hole for that stays really cool ;)

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                            • quicksilver
                              quicksilver @mth75 last edited by quicksilver

                              @mth75 I believe this game (full tilt pinball) is also functional through dosbox/windows 3.1.

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                              • A Former User
                                A Former User last edited by

                                I never knew Wine could make x86 games work on ARM, I knew it was built for making Windows games work on Linux but that's the limits of my knowledge on it. I could see this software being very useful, because without this Windows software would have to be recompiled to work on ARM.

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                                • mth75
                                  mth75 @Guest last edited by

                                  @agtrigormortis said in The "what works" with Box86/Wine topic on the RPI4/400:

                                  I never knew Wine could make x86 games work on ARM

                                  It's Box86 which makes this possible. Wine lays on top.

                                  https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86

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                                  • A Former User
                                    A Former User @mth75 last edited by

                                    @mth75 Looks useful, this is exactly what the Pi systems need imo.
                                    Just the Pi hardware using ARM tech artificially limits what can be done with them, which isn't any fault of the Pi foundation, but unfortunately it does affect compatibility of software severely.

                                    I would've loved to use Kega Fusion and Winamp on my Pi4, but them being limited to x86 means getting them to work is more complicated. Is Kega Fusion excessive? perhaps, RetroPie's Genesis emulation seems decent enough, but I've always had very good accuracy with Kega that it's hard to try out anything new.

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                                    • mth75
                                      mth75 @mth75 last edited by

                                      Simcity 3000

                                      The Simcity 3000 GOG version works perfectly.

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                                      • mth75
                                        mth75 @mth75 last edited by

                                        MDK (1) runs fine with the Mdk.exe of the GOG version.

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                                        • mth75
                                          mth75 @mth75 last edited by

                                          Chronicle of Innsmouth (Steam version), seems to run fine.

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                                          • Efriim
                                            Efriim last edited by Efriim

                                            What are the default GPU core clock speeds on the RPI400?

                                            I haven't read ahead very far but will installing mesa w/ Vulkan support make other emulators not work? -note: X11 is used, but it looks like there is a workaround for the issue that caused before.

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