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Running old Windows 95 game "not enough space in local heap"
Hello. I have spent now several days trying to get an old Windows 95 game called "Muumit piilosilla" (it is old Finnish point and click game about Moomins) to run on my Linux Mint. The game is an old multimedia CD ROM made with adobe macromedia director, if that is somehow useful information. The CD contains Windows and Mac versions. My machine has 8 GB RAM and the game is only 50 MB, so there should be plenty of RAM to go around.
I got it working inside a VirtualBox with XP, but the experience was not optimal. VirtualBox requires me to disable kvm from the terminal, adjust the window size to fit to the screen and other small annoyances, such as mounting the .iso file to the virtual machine from the host. I would like to have a simply a shortcut on the desktop so that my child would be able to start the game by herself.
By running it from wine, the game launches and is playable for about 10 seconds. As soon as the game launches, I got multiple errors in the terminal:
0114:err:local:LOCAL_GetBlock not enough space in local heap 06ff for 2056 bytesAnd after trying to play the game little bit the game crashes with pop up error:
Not enough memory to load '01DALEN.DXR'. Try turning off the memory cache in the Memory control panel.As the game is made with Macromedia Director, I think that that 01DALEN.DXR file is one of the game data files containing the game media.
Besides Wine, I have also tried Lutris, PlayOnLinux, DosBox, DosBox-X and Bottles. I get the same error and symptons on all the software, except for dosboxes I get error "Windows is required" or something like that.
I have tried to set Wine to run on Win95, 98, XP and XP-64 modes, but always the same error. I tried also fiddling with the settings on Lutris, but I have literally no idea what I am doing, as this is the first game I am trying to play on Linux with my child and I am also new with Linux overall. I switched to Linux as the support for Windows 10 has ended.
Any ideas? I have been chatting with ChatGPT, but all I am getting from it is these Wine commands that just lead to that heap error:
export WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine_game32" export WINEARCH=win32 winecfgThank you in advance! And sorry for grammar issues, I am not native english speaker.
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Can anyone help me open an exe which opens another exe inside of Linux?
Hello, I have a bit of a weird situation.
On my Linux setup I have a Windows game that I want to play, but the way it was designed by the creator, you run an .exe which detects which version of machine/OS you have, which then runs another .exe that actually launches the game.
Directly launching the .exe for the 64-bit architecture of Windows does not work, even with the correct Wine version enabled.
Having said that, I'm stumped on how to make this game work. I can get the first .exe to launch, but then the second .exe which does not have Proton installed will crash immediately.
I have Lutris and Protontricks installed on my machine but I still can't seem to make it work properly. Can anyone help?
If you do have an answer please explain it simply because this is something I'm still struggling with.
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What is the best for a laptop Nobara or Bazzite ?
I have a 2014 MacBook Pro that I use and I wanna know for you guys what do you think is the best for playing games with proton and be able to be used in an every day situation. Thanks !
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Intel B580 cannot run two 4k monitors on Linux
I'm seeing an issue with the Intel Arc B580 in Linux, wherein it is not able to run two 4k monitors simultaneously.
I've tried this with both Arch Linux and Pop OS (with the latest and LTS kernels).
One monitor runs normally and while the other one is detected, there is nothing rendered on the screen.
Has anyone else faced this issue? What could I try to investigate this further?
Here's my config:
- Monitor 1 (3840 x 2160 resolution, 165hz) (connected to middle DP)
- Monitor 2 (3840 x 2160 resolution, 144hz) (tried with both left/right DP or HDMI)
The same set up works flawlessly on Windows.
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Wuthering Waves 120 FPS on Linux
I have a Ryzen 5700X and an RX 9060 XT. On Windows 10, I have a 120 FPS limit set, but on Linux I am capped at 60 FPS. Also, a notification appears in the settings saying that the device is overloaded, as if it can't figure out what components I have.
Here's what I've tried:
- Different versions of Proton (Experimental, GE, CachyOS).
- Different Steam installation types (native, Flatpak).
- Different distributions (Debian 13 with backports, Endeavour OS).
- Different launch options.
All systems are clean, fresh install.
Some time ago tested game with Ryzen 3600 and Nvidia GTX 1660, in-game load analyser worked fine.
Any advice?
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Cross-posting here as my app is also available as Flatpak/AppImage/plain binary :)
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My computer doesn't run nearly as good after installing Linux mint
I installed Linux mint and games run horrible, my computer has a gtx 1080 which isn't really a new gpu but it should be able to actually run games, today I was getting pretty bad frames on metal gear solid which is made for the ps1, theres games that I really want to get back on but I can't because my computer cannot run them anymore any advice?
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Saints Row: The Third (2011) - PC Gameplay / High Setting / Radeon RX 6600 XT / Linux
Buttons in games are displayed with Cyrillic letters if launched with Cyrillic layout - is it possible to force only Latin letters?
So, I have two keyboard layouts, one is English, another one is Ukrainian, the problem is - that when I launch the game with Ukrainian keyboard - it also changes the action buttons in the game, which is not a bug, but more of intended feature, and I get it, the problem is - I want to ONLY see Latin letters, not CYRILIC_SHORTI instead of letter Q, so, is it possible to somehow disable this letter switch?
Distribution: Fedora Workstation 42
Steam: Steam RPM Fusion version, non-flatpak
DE: GNOME 48
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Need help finding game save locations on Linux (just switched from Windows)
So I’m currently going through and adding all the games I had installed on an external drive. I decided to use Faugus Launcher after some trial and error with other launchers, and I’ve managed to get about two thirds of my games working so far. One of them is Clair Obscure: Expedition 33.
I’ve got a bunch of old save files for these games and was wondering if I can just drop them into the new save folders, but I’m having trouble even finding where those folders are located. I seriously have no clue where to look.
I literally just switched from Windows today, and I’m already knee deep in frustration, from setting up Wine prefixes to Avowed (a separate game) throwing fatal error pop-ups at me, to somehow breaking the bottles application lmaooo IDEK how I did that but here we are. I’ve been on Windows for like 20 years. I was that gamer kid since day one, but I’m just so done with Windows. I almost didn’t make the switch because so many of the games I play use anti-cheat, but I figured I had to rip the band-aid off at some point.
Anyway, enough lore drop. I’m just trying to figure out where to look for game save files on Linux (I’m using Nobara, for reference). My naive 'Windows brained' self clearly didn’t do enough research. Please forgive me for my sins!
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I'm loving Zorin OS 18
I've tried countless distros. I've been testing Linux distros for many years on an old PC (i7 3770 + Rx 5700). I would test them for a couple months at best, then go back to installing windows because of incompatibility issues, crashes, apps not working and generally just not a very user friendly or beginner friendly experience. My favorite ones were Pop and Opensuse for performance. But they would give me issues.
Zorin OS has been under my radar for some years but I never got to test it. I regret not doing so.
The experience is flawless. Everything JUST WORKS OUT OF THE BOX. I have not used the terminal, not once. Everything is easy to install, games run extremely smoothly (I have doubled the fps I had on this system while using windows).
I think this is it. I really think Zorin is the OS windows users can safely install without worrying about facing the usual "problems" new users meet with Linux. There is barely any learning curve involved.
10/10.
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Steam not visible as source on Lutris
Hi everyone,
I’m new to Linux and I’ve just installed Ubuntu and Lutris. Everything seems to work fine, but I can’t see Steam as a source. I tried reinstalling Lutris and running system updates, but Steam still isn’t listed. I also tried to turn on the "Steam for Windows" but nothing happens.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
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Any screen sharing options that work?
I've tried linux so many times but always run into major issues. Can't install windows 11 or enroll in extended updates for 10 so I'm stuck. I currently live away from my partner so we stream games over discord regularly when we can't see each other. I've tried it on Linux but discord runs so badly it's impossible. OBS through discord has high latency and game audio doesn't work. Steam game streaming just doesn't work at all. Are there any other options that work? It's what made me give up trying linux for the third time. Gaming is otherwise bearable.
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Trying to make Overwatch 2 (and other games) work in KDE Plasma
System information:
OS: POP!_OS 22.04
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1400
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
I've recently started using Linux for gaming, now dual booting with Windows, and I've not had the best experience. I've already tried Bazzite, Nobara and now Pop!_OS in the quest of finding a stable OS that allows me to play Overwatch 2 (and other games) without a problem. I can play it on Windows with 130-140FPS and I now managed to make it work at around 120 FPS in GNOME with some occasional fps spikes.
The problem is that I'm kinda hating gnome, from the looks to the usability, and I'd really like to make KDE Plasma work. In KDE Plasma I'm getting around 30-40 FPS with the same configurations as GNOME (I followed this tutorial and made sure I had the right NVIDIA drivers and all that):
- The problem seems to be mainly the CPU usage (30-40% in Windows, 70%+ in KDE Plasma)
- I blocked Wayland since I read it could affect performance, and I am running KDE Plasma on X11
- I'm running the game with gamemoderun
- I'm running the game with ProtonGE (the latest version)
- I've enabled the Perfomance power option
- I've gone through a ton of comments in the ProtonDB website, trying different launch options, but running simply "gamemoderun %command%" as given me the best performance yet
Besides the performance issue, I also hear crackling noises when running Overwatch with KDE Plasma. There's an easy launch option that fixes that, so it's not really a problem, but it might indicate some specific problem that might be affecting the performance.
I'd be grateful if someone could provide some tips that might help. I'm talking mainly about Overwatch since it's the game that has given me the most headaches and also what I'm planning to play the most, but I've also noticed performance problems in CS2 and Split Fiction.
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Thanks to steady improvement over the years, over 80% of Windows games now work on Linux.
Planing to use B580 on linux. Is there any major problems?
Hi! I am currently rocking this build https://fi.pcpartpicker.com/list/bqQggn and planing to upgrade to the Intel Arc B580. I use wayland and mainly just play minecraft, but i would like to be able to play other games also. Is the B580 viable for use under linux?
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The stream deck indecision....
I'm thinking of getting a elgato stream deck and cannot decide which one I want.
Either the 15 key one or the 32 key one. I know I don't want the baby one. the one with the dials looks handy but idk if we have software support for it yet.
I mostly want it for home assistant integration but also for triggering certain things within my OS. I don't stream, just play single player local games but tying into OBS might be useful.
I'm curious to see what others here use and mainly what software backend works for them. I'm thinking of using this companion program to handle it or one called OpenDeck.
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