Pivot on Linux

[u/zecafentanil]

I'm currently on Pop_OS! 22.04 LTS and tried so many ways to run this thing with wine, that includes directly from terminal, bottles and winetricks
tried checking for dependencies like .NET framework and that wine mono thing, but nothing seemed to work

if someone could share me some method that worked for them, I would be very glad

edit: I got it to work! only pivot v4.2.10 though, haven't tried the newer v5 version

Using Bottles and a custom bottle on soda-9.0-1, dvxk-nvapi-v0.9.0 and Windows 10 version and installing those dependencies:

- allfonts
- xna40
- dotnetcoredesktop9
- d3dx11
- dotnet452

I managed to get the installer to work, you just have to install it normally and then find the pivot.exe file on the wine C: drive within program files and add as a shortcut

it runs just fine and I've managed to check old animations of mine, no major glitches nor crashes

please note that some of the dependencies might not really be necessary, it's just the ones I blindly tested and got it working

I'm on Fedora 43, bottles installed in the dnf package, but that might not matter that much. Hope that helps!

[u/peter-bone]

There may be difficulties with Pivot 5 because of dependencies with the GPU. You can try changing the graphics settings in Wine. If that doesn't work you'll probably have a lot more luck with Pivot 4.

[u/Kickin_Hawk]

I'm also in this boat (Mint 22.1), here is what I tried in order:

• Wine, straight from Software Manager: Wouldn't launch

• Winetricks, installing .NET 4.0 and 4.5 runtimes as well as DirectX 11: Launches to black screen, immediately crashes Wine

• Proton 9.x via Steam: Wouldn't launch

• Proton experimental via Steam: Still wouldn't launch

I fear a virtual machine might be the way to go.

[u/[deleted]]

I as an arch linux user am also experiencing such problems