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d00maz

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Registered: 2009-11-08

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Steam wine Arch

If using steam through wine,which is your preferred steam architecture and why?

I use a few apps with the default x64 prefix of wine,but after installing steam in that same prefix,i get some issues with libs not being available on x64.

onslow77

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Registered: 2014-09-21

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Re: Steam wine Arch

If using steam through wine,which is your preferred steam architecture and why?

I use a few apps with the default x64 prefix of wine,but after installing steam in that same prefix,i get some issues with libs not being available on x64.

Hello,

Can you please clarify your question. Are you saying that after you installed steam in your wineprefix, the previosly installed programs (in the same prefix) no longer work, or that steam do not work. Also, what libs are not availiable, and what kind of issues are you experiance?

In regards to 32 and 64 bit prefixes, you can read more about the architectural differences here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/wine

Regards
Martin

d00maz

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Re: Steam wine Arch

I installed steam to a x64 prefix which is my default,steam itself works great but after i installed a game,it wants vcexpress and dotnetfx which are x86.My question is do people usually use steam on x86 prefix or do they manually download x64 win libs and use it on x64 prefix

V1del

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Re: Steam wine Arch

you don't need to download x64 libs but x86 ones, they will work in a 64bit prefix (the steam you installed and are using is x86 as well). in theory this should be completely transparent  in practice there are a few cases were stuff works in a x86 prefix and not in a 64bit prefix (emphasis is on few here, I've seldom encountered it and it can happen ond windows itself as well. One notable example would be League of Legends which absolutely requires a win32 prefix in wine)

onslow77

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Registered: 2014-09-21

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Re: Steam wine Arch

I installed steam to a x64 prefix which is my default,steam itself works great but after i installed a game,it wants vcexpress and dotnetfx which are x86.My question is do people usually use steam on x86 prefix or do they manually download x64 win libs and use it on x64 prefix

Thx, I myself also use the default 64 bit prefix and have so far not encounter any errors due to the architecture of a program, even if it happens to be a 32 bit one.

"dotnetfx" is part of microsoft .net (the update daemon I think). According to the arch wine wiki you can install wine_gecko and wine-mono so you do not have to download IE and dot net support for every prefix - wich many windows programs need.

I do not know what "vcexpress" is, but most of the time there is good explanations on the wineHQ website on what is needed and how to guides. I suggest you look up the programs you are trying to run and see if you get any clues there.

Regards
Martin

Last edited by onslow77 (2015-02-11 12:42:30)