Desura and WINE Thread - Linux Gamers

Does anybody use desura under WINE? I tried it and it doesn't work that well.

Like the wine app db says, logging in was not possible for me.
My first test, some time ago, gave me just many wine errors, but with the newest version I get:

Desura Login ErrorFailed to start desura service: Failed to start service:Desura Install Service [55.1056][55.1056]

Wine config issue, or is it just not possible at the moment?

Wine are really a very very bad alternative for Windows application on Un*x...
Waiting for the linux native client.

are you called code93 in the steam forums? ^^

Hi, no i'm not on the steam forum.

The latest version of Desura now works on the latest wine (1.3). It doesn't really work well though, but at least people without a windows partition can fool around with it.

Seeing it running on my Linux desktop just makes me more anxious for the official release.

I am really waiting until the Linux client comes out. I have to run Steam under wine and I find it so annoying. When Desura releases their Linux client I will probably dump Steam or at lease move it to the back (or uninstall it) in favor of native Linux stuff. I very rarely run anything in Wine simply because it's hit or miss if it actually works correctly, and even if it works I have noticed graphic glitches with a few things.

joeka wrote: Desura Login ErrorFailed to start desura service: Failed to start service:Desura Install Service [55.1056][55.1056]
Wine config issue, or is it just not possible at the moment?

Long story short: I fixed this error by installing 32-bit wine. The UI is a bit slow and glitchy, but it seems to work so far.

Since Desura says that it has problems starting the service, I attempted to start the \Program Files\Common Files\Desura\desura_service.exe manually. It gave me an error message:

err:service:service_control_dispatcher failed to create control pipe error = 676

This lead me to a Wine bug report: Bugs.winehq.org
So apparently this has never worked on 64-bit wine (the bug was reported in 2009 April)

No need for this anymore since the Linux version of the client is out now.

Whaaaat? I signed up for the Linux version mailing list, but nobody told me for 2 weeks!

Oh well, at least I found out now

Well, there is still a need to run it: To download the games which are Windows only.
Or do I miss a hidden feature which lets me choose for which platform I want to download and install the game?

BTW: It seems to run with Wine 1.3.32. So far it looks good, after a few first tests.

I agree with Sir_Eggy, there are useful applications for Wine + Desura still. I run alot of games via Crossover Games at the moment. I will go native if I can (easily -- as in the clients are available in the repos), but I am going to get my game on some how, some way -- without going over to Windows.

I will promote actively supporting Desura's Windows client over at the Codeweavers forums. I am sure that if there are any glitches they will get ironed out, but having paid support makes it just that much more swiftly done.

My hope is that at some point down the road we can start doing WINE bottles for Windows games, but that is something down the road.

take a look at how Teamviewer does it: I installed it recently as their page "claims" a linux version. Turns out its the 32bit version in a Wine1.2 bottle. Works remarkably well. I can connect to a variety of Win7, WinXp from Slackware with full screen sharing support. Only glitch is no microphone.

I really would like to find an automated script for building WINE bottles but so far I have not been able to find one.

Protektor,
You mean something like these:
Wibom - Sourceforge.net
PyWinery - Code.google.com
Wine-bottle and GUI - Home.student.utwente.nl

winetricks, available on winehq.org has a script to install stuff in a wine-bottle. See also Wiki.winehq.org

On of these should be adaptable to Desura.

Edited by: kingbeowulf

Those are nice but not exactly what I am looking for. I want something that I can have seperate installs of different WINE versions. Say for example Fallout 3 runs best on WINE 5.2.3.5 (made up). Then say RAGE runs best on WINE 5.3.7.1 (made up). I want to be able to have those wine versions and the game installed only in those versions of WINE.

Basically I want an automated script similar to what PlayOnLinux does with downloading specific WINE versions that are known to work best with certain games. The biggest problem with WINE is you upgrade it to get support for one game and the upgrade breaks three other games that were working.

This is about the only way to get Windows games working for the way we do things here at Desura.

Edited by: Protektor

i have win7 64bit
when i login to desura it says - failed to start desura service. failed to create pipe client. (send pipeclient is busy. {56.2}

CookiesOverlord wrote: i have win7 64bit
when i login to desura it says - failed to start desura service. failed to create pipe client. (send pipeclient is busy. {56.2}

You're in the wrong thread. This is about running Desura on Linux, via Wine.