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Strange issue affecting VMs and Wine pls halp

Hi, new user, recently moved from Windows and this is my first desktop linux distro. Still figuring things out. But as it stands, I have all the pieces in place to recreate my windows workflow except one. Here's my problem:

I want to use a software for my dashcam. It works fine in Windows. It is this software: redtigercam.com/pages/gps-player which is a rebrand of this software: gpsplayer.net/gpsplayer.html

When I install a Windows virtual machine using Qemu or Virtualbox, this software doesn't work. Says "Couldn't load plugin".  When I install it in Wine, same thing, couldn't load plugin. I made a bug report to Wine about it and there's some logs in there.

Here's where it gets mucky: I installed Ubuntu in qemu, then I installed wine in the virtualized ubuntu, then I installed redtiger player through wine in that ubuntu vm. And it actually loads and works. I'm at a loss at what it wants to work in Artix whether through Wine or through a VM.

My hardware is a AMD Radeon RX 6600M + AMD Ryzen 7 5800H . I have tried with the default and with amdpro drivers. I have tried various iterations of wine runners and dx12 settings. I have tried in 4 different windows VMs in different virtualization softwares.

I hope someone can offer assistance on what I can do to make this app work or advise me on what info I should provide you to have better assistance.

Re: Strange issue affecting VMs and Wine pls halp

Reply #1 –
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I have tried various iterations of wine runners
That's the main thing I suppose, because the Ubuntu package might provide a specific build, and you'll need to try a few things:

Firstly, did you use Staging builds of Wine? They can have a higher chance of success.
Secondly, do you have wine-gecko and wine-mono installed?
The graphical configuration might be different under that vm in ubuntu, so have you tried installing DXVK in that wineprefix?
Have you tried installing microsoft visual c++ redistributables in that wineprefix using e.g. winetricks?

That should roughly do it. Good luck.

Re: Strange issue affecting VMs and Wine pls halp

Reply #2 –
Try using Lutris. https://lutris.net/

That might seem counter intuitive. "Lutris is for games". Which it is but it's also just as capable of starting any windows program.

You get to easily be able to try out lots of versions of wine, all the wine helper programs are integrated and handled for you (and again you can try out different versions) and it simplifies both the use of separate wine prefixes for each program and the customisation of wines settings.

You need the arch repos enabled for lutris.

Lutris has (imho) a horrible GUI app but behind that it's very powerful.

Flow:
Install Lutris
Click on ☰ (top right)
Preferences -> runners. Add wine as a runner.
Click on '+' top left
Click on "Add locally installed game"
Add Name, select wine in the runners list.
On the game options tab:
Browse to the programs installer/setup file in the executable box.
Choose a location for the wine prefix (it doesn't need to pre-exist)

Save and run it.
Once the installer has completed right click the program in Lutris
Configure
Change the executable path to the the actual programs executable within the new wine prefix.

Real world example. I couldn't get EAC (exact audio copy) working with the system wine.
I didn't try to fix it for long.
Just started it in Lutris in it's own prefix and it worked straight away.