Installing ARMA 3 Client under Linux Wine

[rogerx 11]

I still can't get past the DirectX 11 D3D11CreateDeviceAndSwapChain error using wine-1.6. I'll try fiddling with later versions of wine. Bugs are currently already open for the D3D11CreateDeviceAndSwapChain being unimplemented within Wine.

1) Install wine & winetricks.

2) Start winetricks and install Steam using winetricks, which will install Steam within it's own bottle. (ie. $HOME/.local/share/wineprefixes/steam/ instead of $HOME/.wine)

NOTE: Steam requires addtional fonts, such as corefonts and tahoma.

ie.

winetricks prefix=$HOME/.local/share/wineprefixes/steam/ steam

winetricks prefix=$HOME/.local/share/wineprefixes/steam/ corefonts

winetricks prefix=$HOME/.local/share/wineprefixes/steam/ tahoma

3) Install additional game required libs such as physx, xact and d3dx11_43

(ie. winetricks prefix=/home/roger/.local/share/wineprefixes/steam/ xact)

4) Start the game:

WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.local/share/wineprefixes/steam/" wine $HOME/.local/share/wineprefixes/steam/dosdevices/c\:/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Steam/SteamApps/common/Arma\ 3/arma3.exe

Or start Steam:

WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.local/share/wineprefixes/steam/" wine $HOME/.local/share/wineprefixes/steam/dosdevices/c\:/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Steam/Steam.exe

ADDITIONAL COMMANDS

List cached/downloaded and installed packages

winetricks prefix=$HOME/.local/share/wineprefixes/steam/ list-cached

winetricks prefix=$HOME/.local/share/wineprefixes/steam/ list-installed

Configure Windows Settings and Libraries

WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.local/share/wineprefixes/steam/" winecfg

Restart/Shutdown O/S (when processes dump)

WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.local/share/wineprefixes/steam/" wineboot -f -k -s