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

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!

mth75

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

mth75

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

mth75

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

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.

mth75

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

mth75

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

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ExarKunIv

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

mth75

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

shavecat

Heroes of might and magic 3
But always freeze in a driftnet place so not really playable

mth75

@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

Did you cut your Nespi case for a huge cooler :-) ... do you have detail photo's of the Nespi? Looks cool !

shavecat

@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 ;)

quicksilver

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

A Former User

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.

mth75

@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

A Former User

@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.

mth75

Simcity 3000

The Simcity 3000 GOG version works perfectly.

mth75

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

mth75

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

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.