Thanks. I'm trying to install the deps meta-package but I'm getting some errors on that as well about the missing
ia32-libs package that seems to be required by it here:

"
Selecting previously unselected package common-libs-meta.
(Reading database ... 176679 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack common-libs-meta.deb ...
Unpacking common-libs-meta (20190118-1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of common-libs-meta:
common-libs-meta depends on libjpeg8; however:
Package libjpeg8 is not installed.
common-libs-meta depends on libsane1; however:
Package libsane1 is not installed.
common-libs-meta depends on libbz2-1.0:i386; however:
common-libs-meta depends on libcggl:i386; however:
common-libs-meta depends on libcurl3-gnutls:i386; however:
common-libs-meta depends on libcurl4:i386 | libcurl3:i386; however:
common-libs-meta depends on libgconf-2-4:i386; however:
common-libs-meta depends on libgtk2.0-0:i386; however:
common-libs-meta depends on libjpeg8:i386; however:
common-libs-meta depends on libjson-c3:i386 | libjson-c2:i386 | libjson0:i386; however:
common-libs-meta depends on libnss3:i386; however:
common-libs-meta depends on libsane1:i386; however:
common-libs-meta depends on libsdl1.2debian:i386; however:
common-libs-meta depends on libsdl2-2.0-0:i386; however:
common-libs-meta depends on libsdl2-image-2.0-0:i386; however:
common-libs-meta depends on libsdl2-mixer-2.0-0:i386; however:
common-libs-meta depends on libvorbisfile3:i386; however:
common-libs-meta depends on libxft2:i386; however:
common-libs-meta depends on mesa-vulkan-drivers:i386; however:
common-libs-meta depends on ia32-libs; however:
Package ia32-libs is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package common-libs-meta (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
common-libs-meta
"

EDIT: posting full error message, was able to resolve some deps manually but the libs
libjpeg8
libsane1
ia32-libs

do not seem to have any canidate for Debian Stretch here.

Well, it's intended for Ubuntu 18.04/Mint 19.x so it's not surprising that it doesn't work with Debian due to missing and/or differently named packages... to install Wine's dependencies on Debian I'd recommend adding WineHQ's repositories and installing one of the builds from there.

Those 3 libraries seem to have the following replacements under Debian Stretch / Buster:

libjpeg8 -> libjpeg62-turbo
libsane1 -> libsane
ia32-libs -> lib32z1 lib32ncurses5

ia32-libs is gone for good. You need various :i386 packages to replace it.

Nice! 2 out of 4 aint bad!

Thank you sir!

Fantastic! Thank you, adamhm! :)

The wrapper for Outlaws has been updated and now uses cnc-ddraw for its main menu & video playback. With this update a virtual desktop is no longer necessary to prevent them from changing the system's display resolution; instead they will now be scaled up to fit the display rather than run in a small window.

Is it the project used by Proton for scaling?

No, this is just a ddraw wrapper. Proton actually has big issues with scaling up games using ddraw, otherwise I'd have probably just used that instead.

Excuse me for repeating myself from a while back, but with the Witcher 3 70% off (not quite 80% as per the recommendation) I'm again wondering if the game is running flawlessly (or near enough) in Linux.

I loved the first two games (especially the first, which is a true masterpiece) and a friend is raving manically about the third, so I'd definitely want to give it a whirl at some point. Is it ready?

It is ready. It runs very well, as long as you have latest Vulkan drivers and Wine+dxvk. I didn't use esync for it, and it worked fine.

Feel free to also ask this thread if you need any specific assistance: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/2753

If using AMD, I recommend using kernel 5.0-rc7 and Mesa master. There were some important performance gains in amdgpu/radv which help.

Thank you, that sounds really good and it's probably time to pull the trigger :)

Don't have an account over there yet, so hope it's okay I ask here. I have Geforce 770 and picked the 410 drivers from the PPA. Do I need to use the 415s instead? Is it stable and suitable for GTX 770?

I see adamhm has a Witcher 3 script, so I guess that would be safest approach?

The Witcher 3 runs great on Linux now with Wine+DXVK :) For Nvidia GPUs the 415.x drivers are recommended.