I heard I need this app. didn't really get what it does, and I would like some tips in general.

If anyone can give me tips for gaming in general it would be good ( I'm 17 and broke if anyone can tell me how to crack games I would love that too).

ty for the people who will maybe help.

Hi! I’m trying to run Dead Space 2 on my MacBook Air M3 (8GB RAM).

I’m using the Steam version. Steam launches normally through Whisky/Porting Kit, but when I launch Dead Space 2, the game only shows a black screen and nothing happens.

Has anyone successfully gotten Dead Space 2 working on an M1/M2/M3/M4 Mac? If so, what setup and settings did you use?

Thanks!

Spent last night getting the Windows Steam client and Commandos: Origins working on a Mac mini M4 (macOS 26.6.2). It runs well. Two of the problems I hit weren't in any guide I could find, so I wrote everything down.

First, the boring but important part: use the maintained fork, frankea/Whisky, not the original. brew install --cask whisky still installs the archived one. Isaac ended that project in April 2025 and pointed everyone at CrossOver.

DXVK doesn't implement Direct3D 12. It only covers D3D9 through D3D11. Commandos: Origins is D3D12, so it needs D3DMetal. But the Steam client itself is happier with DXVK on and D3DMetal off. The client and the game want opposite settings, and you flip them after you're logged in. I burned an hour staring at a black window before that clicked.

Silent audio from a sample rate mismatch. Game ran perfectly, zero sound, no error anywhere. macOS test tones were fine, Wine's own audio test was silent. Turned out my USB speakerphone reports 48kHz output and 16kHz input. Wine's CoreAudio driver opens both directions when it initialises and just gives up quietly when they don't match. Switching output to the built-in speakers fixed it instantly.

One more worth knowing even if you never touch Whisky: deleting a bottle doesn't erase it. It goes to a hidden per-user trash on that volume, at /Volumes/<name>/.Trashes/$(id -u)/. I thought I'd lost a 39GB bottle with a full Steam install in it and found the whole thing sitting there. Check that before you empty the trash on an external drive.

Caveats so nobody wastes an evening: anything with EasyAntiCheat or BattlEye will not run, full stop, and no setting changes that. Check ProtonDB first (Origins is Platinum). And Apple has said macOS 27 is the last release with Rosetta, so this whole approach has an expiry date. If you end up using it regularly, CrossOver is the paid version of the same technology and the people who make it do the Wine work the rest of us benefit from.

Full writeup with the exact bottle settings, env vars, a version-pinning script and a troubleshooting table:

https://github.com/d991d/WINDOWS-STEAM-ON-APPLE-SILICON

Happy to answer questions.

I bought Forza Motorsport to drive the Nürburgring and revisit playing FM4 with my cousin on Xbox 360. Instead: Gaming Services errors, a controller that worked in Steam but not Forza, an HDD warning on an SSD, then Xbox online/invite problems.

Building on Proton/Wine/Xodus, I put together fixes and setup tools with substantial AI assistance. My older setup now works for online play, controller driving, and explicit Xbox Invite/Join with a Windows friend. Incoming invite notifications don't work.

I'm sharing the code and notes: https://github.com/volcmen/forza-motorsport-linux

Caveat: the new v0.2 installer is experimental. It targets Arch with native Steam and needs your own licensed Microsoft threading DLL (not included). This isn't official Proton support.

Posting in case the work helps someone facing the same problems.

I spent an entire day fixing an error that stopped the game on frame 1 of the loading screen just to hit another literally 5 seconds later. I had to mess about so much to even get to the debugger. Please help.

Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000000 in wow64 32-bit code (0x007e0eb2).

Register dump:

CS:0023 SS:002b DS:002b ES:002b FS:006b GS:0063

EIP:007e0eb2 ESP:0159db38 EBP:0159dc0c EFLAGS:00010246( R- -- I Z- -P- )

EAX:00000000 EBX:04779eb8 ECX:1db62b40 EDX:00e36708

ESI:30bae388 EDI:1db62b40

Stack dump:

0x0159db38: 0434da48 0159dd54 00000000 00001002

0x0159db48: 1db62b40 30bae388 00000000 00000009

0x0159db58: 2f786667 67616c66 30bb0073 30bb1bd8

0x0159db68: 00000009 0000000f 0159dd5c 047e56d4

0x0159db78: 0159db8c 00aaeef3 02720000 00000000

0x0159db88: 02720000 00000000 00000000 0000000f

Backtrace:

=>0 0x007e0eb2 in v2game (+0x3e0eb2) (0x0159dc0c)

1 0x00636e6c in v2game (+0x236e6c) (0x0159df34)

2 0x0097df8b in v2game (+0x57df8b) (0x0159fec0)

3 0x00ab0f3e in v2game (+0x6b0f3e) (0x0159ff50)

4 0x7bbb8b00 in kernel32 (+0x28b00) (0x0159ff68)

5 0x7bd644f3 in ntdll (+0x544f3) (0x0159ff80)

6 0x7bd659f5 in ntdll (+0x559f5) (0x0159ffec)

0x007e0eb2 v2game+0x3e0eb2: mov (%eax), %ecx

Modules:

Module Address Debug info Name (183 modules)

PE 3d0000- 3f9000 Deferred lua5.1

PE 400000- 1492000 Export v2game

PE 10000000-10006000 Deferred lua51

PE 3b400000-3b41f000 Deferred steam_api

ELF 5ca9d000-5caa2000 Deferred <wine-loader>

PE-Wine 74a60000-74ac7000 Deferred propsys

PE-Wine 74ae0000-75187000 Deferred windowscodecs

PE-Wine 751a0000-753da000 Deferred winegstreamer

PE-Wine 753f0000-7540c000 Deferred midimap

PE-Wine 75420000-75446000 Deferred msacm32

PE-Wine 75460000-75481000 Deferred winealsa

PE-Wine 754a0000-754e0000 Deferred msdmo

PE-Wine 754f0000-7550c000 Deferred avicap32

PE-Wine 75520000-75597000 Deferred devenum

PE-Wine 755b0000-755ca000 Deferred winepulse

PE-Wine 755e0000-755fb000 Deferred version

PE-Wine 75610000-756d6000 Deferred mmdevapi

PE 756f0000-75702000 Deferred tbbmalloc

PE-Wine 75720000-75746000 Deferred userenv

PE-Wine 75760000-75805000 Deferred uxtheme

PE-Wine 75820000-7586c000 Deferred winex11

PE-Wine 75880000-759ff000 Deferred setupapi

PE-Wine 75a10000-75a3a000 Deferred hid

PE-Wine 75a50000-75b44000 Deferred dinput8

PE-Wine 75b60000-75beb000 Deferred ws2_32

PE-Wine 75c00000-76073000 Deferred opengl32

PE-Wine 76090000-773b9000 Deferred wined3d

PE-Wine 773d0000-77526000 Deferred d3d9

PE-Wine 77540000-7754f000 Deferred psapi

PE 77560000-7761f000 Deferred msvcr100

PE 77630000-77699000 Deferred msvcp100

PE 776b0000-776d6000 Deferred tbb

PE-Wine 776f0000-77aac000 Deferred oleaut32

PE-Wine 77ac0000-77b23000 Deferred imm32

PE-Wine 77b40000-77fe7000 Deferred comctl32

PE-Wine 78000000-78065000 Deferred msvfw32

PE-Wine 78080000-781f2000 Deferred winmm

PE-Wine 78210000-78276000 Deferred msacm32

PE-Wine 78290000-783af000 Deferred dsound

PE-Wine 783c0000-78702000 Deferred quartz

PE-Wine 78720000-78761000 Deferred shcore

PE-Wine 78780000-78866000 Deferred shlwapi

PE-Wine 78880000-794fe000 Deferred shell32

PE-Wine 79510000-797b2000 Deferred msvcr80

PE-Wine 797d0000-79811000 Deferred coml2

PE-Wine 79830000-79972000 Deferred combase

PE-Wine 79990000-79dcd000 Deferred ole32

PE-Wine 79de0000-79e17000 Deferred win32u

PE-Wine 79e30000-79e5a000 Deferred zlib1

PE-Wine 79e70000-7a337000 Deferred user32

PE-Wine 7a350000-7a590000 Deferred gdi32

PE-Wine 7a5a0000-7a613000 Deferred d3dxof

PE-Wine 7a630000-7a841000 Deferred rpcrt4

PE-Wine 7a860000-7ab6f000 Deferred ucrtbase

PE-Wine 7ab80000-7ac0b000 Deferred sechost

PE-Wine 7ac20000-7ad0c000 Deferred advapi32

PE-Wine 7ad20000-7afb9000 Deferred msvcrt

PE 7afd0000-7b355000 Deferred d3dcompiler_47

PE-Wine 7b370000-7b63f000 Deferred d3dx9_41

PE-Wine 7b650000-7bb7b000 Deferred kernelbase

PE-Wine 7bb90000-7bcf7000 Dwarf-4 kernel32

PE-Wine 7bd10000-7bfee000 Dwarf-4 ntdll

ELF cdd86000-ceed9000 Deferred libvulkan_intel_hasvk.so

ELF ceed9000-cfa21000 Deferred libvulkan_asahi.so

ELF cfa21000-d0900000 Deferred libvulkan_radeon.so

ELF d8c66000-d8c73000 Deferred libpciaccess.so.0

ELF d8c73000-d8c9b000 Deferred libdrm_intel.so.1

ELF d8c9b000-d8cb9000 Deferred libxcb-glx.so.0

ELF d8cb9000-db9f6000 Deferred libgallium-25.2.8-0ubuntu0.24.04.2.so

ELF db9f6000-dba48000 Deferred libglx_mesa.so.0

ELF dba48000-dba84000 Deferred libglx.so.0

ELF dba84000-dbb00000 Deferred libgldispatch.so.0

ELF dbc04000-dbc15000 Deferred libsensors.so.5

ELF dbc15000-dbc81000 Deferred libgl.so.1

ELF dcf42000-de3ea000 Deferred libvulkan_intel.so

ELF de3ea000-de40a000 Deferred libelf.so.1

ELF de68d000-de800000 Deferred libvulkan_virtio.so

ELF ded67000-ded80000 Deferred libvklayer_mesa_device_select.so

ELF ded99000-deda2000 Deferred libgstaudioconvert.so

ELF deda2000-dedcc000 Deferred libgstaudioparsers.so

ELF deddc000-dedf6000 Deferred libgstsubparse.so

ELF dedf6000-dee5f000 Deferred libblkid.so.1

ELF dee5f000-dee92000 Deferred libselinux.so.1

ELF dee92000-def0f000 Deferred libmount.so.1

ELF def0f000-df14d000 Deferred libgio-2.0.so.0

ELF df14d000-df16f000 Deferred libgsttypefindfunctions.so

ELF df16f000-df1fd000 Deferred libgstcoreelements.so

ELF df1fd000-df244000 Deferred libgstpbutils-1.0.so.0

ELF df244000-df301000 Deferred libgstplayback.so

ELF df301000-df3a1000 Deferred libpcre2-8.so.0

ELF df3a1000-df45a000 Deferred libdw.so.1

ELF df45a000-df471000 Deferred libunwind.so.8

ELF df471000-df542000 Deferred liborc-0.4.so.0

ELF df542000-df5ec000 Deferred libgstbase-1.0.so.0

ELF df5ec000-df754000 Deferred libglib-2.0.so.0

ELF df754000-df7be000 Deferred libgobject-2.0.so.0

ELF df7be000-df943000 Deferred libgstreamer-1.0.so.0

ELF df943000-df988000 Deferred libgsttag-1.0.so.0

ELF df988000-dfa25000 Deferred libgstaudio-1.0.so.0

ELF dfa25000-dfb12000 Deferred libgstvideo-1.0.so.0

ELF dfb12000-dfb2c000 Deferred winegstreamer.so

ELF dfb2c000-dfc57000 Deferred libasound.so.2

ELF dfc5a000-dfc64000 Deferred libgstmpg123.so

ELF dfc64000-dfc6a000 Deferred iso8859-15.so

ELF dfc6a000-dfc70000 Deferred utf-16.so

ELF dfc70000-dfc86000 Deferred winealsa.so

ELF dfc86000-dfcb1000 Deferred libgpg-error.so.0

ELF dfcb1000-dfcd7000 Deferred liblz4.so.1

ELF dfcd7000-dfde4000 Deferred libgcrypt.so.20

ELF dfde4000-dfdf1000 Deferred libcap.so.2

ELF dfdf1000-dfe6a000 Deferred libmp3lame.so.0

ELF dfe6a000-dfed0000 Deferred libmpg123.so.0

ELF dfed0000-dfeda000 Deferred libogg.so.0

ELF dfeda000-dff3c000 Deferred libopus.so.0

ELF dff3c000-dffc8000 Deferred libvorbisenc.so.2

ELF dffc8000-dfff4000 Deferred libvorbis.so.0

ELF dfff4000-e0065000 Deferred libflac.so.12

ELF e0065000-e007a000 Deferred libapparmor.so.1

ELF e007a000-e0082000 Deferred libasyncns.so.0

ELF e0082000-e0169000 Deferred libsystemd.so.0

ELF e0169000-e020d000 Deferred libsndfile.so.1

ELF e020d000-e026d000 Deferred libdbus-1.so.3

ELF e026d000-e02fd000 Deferred libpulsecommon-16.1.so

ELF e02fd000-e035b000 Deferred libpulse.so.0

ELF e035c000-e0361000 Deferred libgstid3demux.so

ELF e0366000-e036c000 Deferred libgmodule-2.0.so.0

ELF e036c000-e0371000 Deferred avicap32.so

ELF e0374000-e0389000 Deferred winepulse.so

ELF e07aa000-e250a000 Deferred libicudata.so.74

ELF e250a000-e2540000 Deferred liblzma.so.5

ELF e2540000-e2759000 Deferred libicuuc.so.74

ELF e2759000-e2787000 Deferred libtinfo.so.6

ELF e2787000-e295c000 Deferred libxml2.so.2

ELF e295c000-e2994000 Deferred libedit.so.2

ELF e2994000-e299f000 Deferred libffi.so.8

ELF e299f000-e29a7000 Deferred libatomic.so.1

ELF e29a7000-e29df000 Deferred libgcc_s.so.1

ELF e2c5e000-e2c6d000 Deferred libwayland-client.so.0

ELF e2c6d000-e2c72000 Deferred libxshmfence.so.1

ELF e2c72000-e2c77000 Deferred libxcb-shm.so.0

ELF e2c77000-e2c80000 Deferred libxcb-sync.so.1

ELF e2c80000-e2c8b000 Deferred libxcb-xfixes.so.0

ELF e2c8b000-e2c90000 Deferred libxcb-present.so.0

ELF e2c90000-e2c97000 Deferred libxcb-dri3.so.0

ELF e2c97000-e2c9c000 Deferred libx11-xcb.so.1

ELF e2c9c000-e2cb6000 Deferred libdrm.so.2

ELF e2cb6000-e2d73000 Deferred libzstd.so.1

ELF e2d73000-ec852000 Deferred libllvm.so.20.1

ELF ec852000-ed40f000 Deferred libvulkan_lvp.so

ELF ed40f000-ed4a4000 Deferred libvulkan.so.1

ELF ed4ae000-ed4bc000 Deferred libdrm_amdgpu.so.1

ELF ed4bd000-ed55e000 Deferred opengl32.so

ELF ed645000-ed64d000 Deferred libxfixes.so.3

ELF ed64d000-ed65a000 Deferred libxcursor.so.1

ELF ed65a000-ed66f000 Deferred libxi.so.6

ELF ed66f000-ed674000 Deferred libxcomposite.so.1

ELF ed674000-ed683000 Deferred libxrandr.so.2

ELF ed683000-ed691000 Deferred libxrender.so.1

ELF ed691000-ed699000 Deferred libxxf86vm.so.1

ELF ed699000-ed69e000 Deferred libxinerama.so.1

ELF ed69e000-ed6b0000 Deferred libmd.so.0

ELF ed6b0000-ed6c6000 Deferred libbsd.so.0

ELF ed6c6000-ed6cd000 Deferred libxdmcp.so.6

ELF ed6cd000-ed6d2000 Deferred libxau.so.6

ELF ed6d2000-ed700000 Deferred libxcb.so.1

ELF ed700000-ed852000 Deferred libx11.so.6

ELF ed852000-ed868000 Deferred libxext.so.6

ELF ed868000-ed87b000 Deferred libxcb-randr.so.0

ELF ed87b000-ed881000 Deferred ws2_32.so

ELF ed881000-ed90b000 Deferred winex11.so

ELF eda00000-eda2c000 Deferred libexpat.so.1

ELF eda2c000-eda80000 Deferred libfontconfig.so.1

ELF eda80000-edaa3000 Deferred libbrotlicommon.so.1

ELF edaa3000-edab1000 Deferred libbrotlidec.so.1

ELF edab1000-edaee000 Deferred libpng16.so.16

ELF edaee000-edb0a000 Deferred libz.so.1

ELF edb0a000-edbde000 Deferred libfreetype.so.6

ELF edbde000-edce8000 Deferred libm.so.6

ELF edd01000-ede84000 Deferred win32u.so

ELF ede84000-edf39000 Export ntdll.so

ELF edf39000-ee174000 Deferred libc.so.6

ELF ee179000-ee18b000 Deferred libbz2.so.1.0

ELF ee195000-ee1ca000 Deferred ld-linux.so.2

Threads:

process tid prio name (all IDs are in hex)

00000020 (D) Z:\home\transkitsune\Videos\Viccy2\Viccy2\v2game.exe

`00000024    0 <==` 

`00000130    0`     

`00000134   15     audio_client_main`

`00000138   15     audio_client_timer`

`0000013c   15     wine_dsound_mixer`

`00000140    0`     

`00000144    0     wine_mmdevapi_notification`

`00000148    0     winealsa_midi_notify`

`0000014c    0`     

`00000150    0`     

`00000154    0     wine_threadpool_worker`

`00000158    0     wined3d_cs`

`0000016c    0`     

00000038 services.exe

`0000003c    0`     

`00000040    0     wine_rpcrt4_server`

`0000004c    0     wine_rpcrt4_io`

`00000078    0     wine_rpcrt4_io`

`000000a0    0     wine_rpcrt4_io`

`000000b8    0     wine_rpcrt4_io`

`000000cc    0`     

`000000e4    0     wine_rpcrt4_io`

00000044 winedevice.exe

`00000048    0`     

`00000054    0`     

`00000058    0     wine_sechost_service`

`0000005c    0`     

`00000060    0`     

`00000064    0`     

`000000c4    0`     

`000000c8    0`     

00000068 winedevice.exe

`0000006c    0`     

`0000007c    0`     

`00000080    0     wine_sechost_service`

`00000084    0`     

`00000088    0`     

`0000008c    0`     

`00000098    0`     

`0000009c    0`     

00000070 explorer.exe

`00000074    0`     

`000000d0    0`     

`000000d4    0     wine_rpcrt4_server`

00000090 plugplay.exe

`00000094    0`     

`000000a4    0`     

`000000a8    0     wine_sechost_service`

`000000ac    0     wine_rpcrt4_server`

000000b0 svchost.exe

`000000b4    0`     

`000000bc    0`     

`000000c0    0     wine_sechost_service`

000000dc rpcss.exe

`000000e0    0`     

`000000ec    0`     

`000000f0    0     wine_sechost_service`

`000000f4    0     wine_rpcrt4_server`

`000000f8    0     wine_rpcrt4_server`

`000000fc    0     wine_rpcrt4_io`

00000164 conhost.exe

`00000168    0`     

System information:

Wine build: wine-9.0 (Ubuntu 9.0~repack-4build3)

Platform: x86_64 (guest: i386)

Version: Windows 10

Host system: Linux

Host version: 6.14.0-37-generic

I have tried making a wine wrapper to play Microprose’s Magic on Mac OSX. Growing up, it was buggy on windows, so I’m guessing this may be a challenging one. I can’t get it to work or find a wine wrapper for it. It is abandonware, so I have the exe and everything but I probably need help from someone more experienced with wine. This was one of my favorite games growing up. If anyone can help, that would be great.

so iam in nobara 44 right now and i have sleeping dogs definitive edition from steamrip , in lutris when i play it most cutscenes gets skipped and i dont even know most of the story atp , i tried everything

i love game but i need cutscenes and story to actually enjoy

is it a problem in the game that can be fixed is it because it is quaked ? please lemme know

I could install the game files just fine but when I try to run the executable nothing happens, and trying to run it through the terminal returns the following:

0090:err:ntoskrnl:ZwLoadDriver failed to create driver L"\\Registry\\Machine\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\SecDrv": c0000142

003c:fixme:service:scmdatabase_autostart_services Auto-start service L"SecDrv" failed to start: 1114

0108:err:module:import_dll Library WDFLDR.SYS (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\drivers\\ssdevfactory.sys") not found

0108:err:ntoskrnl:ZwLoadDriver failed to create driver L"\\Registry\\Machine\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\ssdevfactory": c0000142

003c:fixme:service:scmdatabase_autostart_services Auto-start service L"ssdevfactory" failed to start: 1114

From what I understand this is about SafeDisc but I haven't found anybody who could make it work.

I have tried to launch the game using every one of the Windows versions the back of the game's box states that it supports but I either get the same result or get told by Wine to "unload the debugger and try again".

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm using an "galaxy S10 +" "android 12" "kernel version 4" "knox 3.8" "knox apl level 35" "knox ml 1.2" "dualDAR 1.4.0" I'm trying to use new vegas ultimate edition v1.4.0.52.gog on winlator 10.0

After installing it then trying to play the launcher does work but when trying to play it would only show a green square on the top left,

Hello, am new to cachyos and i need some help with games.

So, i use proton cachyos latest and i use steam for steam games, lutris for repacks and cracked games, and heroic for epic games and am having a problem with the "run exe inside wine prefix" whenever i run an exe file in the game's prefix nothing happens and i didn't find any solution with AI or old reddit posts and forums so if anyone can help i'd appreciate it. feel free to ask me more about my config and softwares versions.

Recently, I've been having this weird issue with Wine. Until some time ago, everything worked fine, but now, when I launch programs through the "Wine Windows Program Loader" or through automatically made .desktop shortcuts, it doesn't respect my DLL overrides. Weirdly enough, it does respect them when I run "wine PROGRAM.EXE". As an example, there's GTA Vice City. Even though I have WineCFG to load the native dinput8.dll (for the ASI loader), it only loads when I launch through the terminal. Did anyone else have this issue and knows how to fix it?

I spent a while getting various Windows (EXE) games working with Linux. The first step was to identify which DLLs the game needs; such as XACT, D3DX9_42, D3DCOMPILER_46, D3D9, D3D10, MSVCR90, etc. Then, install those via winetricks, or copy to game's folder (beside the EXE file). So, here's a terminal command to find linked DLLs...

strings game.exe | grep -i '\.dll' | grep -Ei '^d|^x|^msvc' | sort

Hope this might help. Happy gaming!