Whenever I try to set up a program it keeps giving me errors saying WINE has crashed, even before I start to install the program.

Then it finally gives me some stupid error saying wineprefix"blahblahblah" does not exist error in POL setup window shortcut creator fatal error.....


Why, I mean, this used to work. Now it doesn't for no apparent reason?

The version of WINE used does not seem to matter.

Does WINE work without Play On Linux?

You can try running "wine regedit" (don't change anything unless you know what you're doing) or "wine iexplore". Do either of those work without crashing?

Probably because it keeps trying to pull laughably outdated versions of Wine, some of which I doubt exist anymore or run for your system.

I stopped using POL a while ago.

What is the alternative to using POL for switching Wine versions?

Mostly, I don't bother switching Wine versions.

Though, if you insisted, I'd look into Q4wine.

Give Lutris a shot.

You should look at this developer main project. This guy is far-right (compare site icon with this) anti-semite and banderite, Not joking.

I am stating this because it must be stated,
how you fare is up to you.

Wrong post.

Ah. How odd then. I wasn't aware.

Still, the gist is, I don't bother using Play on Linux, I just use a launcher if I really feel the need to poke any settings.
Many of them could be used. I'll be looking into a new one.

Um, this was using the "install non listed program" option.

So it isn't the wine version. I was using the latest version.

It must be something else.

I did notice that when I search for wine in the start menu I don't see anything. Which seems odd, because I used to be able to find wine when I did that after installing POL.

But when I search for wine in the file system, I see wine files.

Tried this Q4wine thing.... What is a console binary and argument?

I tried wine regedit and wine explore.

Tells me I need to install wine32. But I have already downloaded 3 latest versions of it!

I tried installing wine32 through the terminal and got

"Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package wine is a virtual package provided by:
wine-stable 3.0-1ubuntu1
wine-development 3.6-1
You should explicitly select one to install.

E: Package 'wine' has no installation candidate
E: Unable to locate package 32"


Um, that was because I typed "wine 32" instead of "wine32". Lets see if it works now.

Okay, typing in "sudo apt-get wine32" gets me wine 32... which apparently is quite critical to the function of POL and yet for some reason is no longer installed with POL.

I no longer get errors during instillation, but, when using the 32 bit version of wine 3.16 the game no longer plays, and I get the error "D:\ra\engine03\DX_module\surface.cpp 468"

keep in mind that TLJ used to work when I tried it. I think I was using 3.15 or 3.14 though.

STALKER SOC no longer works either. Now I get an xray engine failure screen that I cannot read and can only see in the pop up from the dock bar or whatever it is called. The box the error should show in is beiged out. Just solid beige.

These games used to work. So something has happened with POL or WINE.

Any idea what happened?

Look, you don't specifically need winelib:i386 (not wine32) installed via system (# apt-get), but installing it will auto-pull all necessary dependencies. The ":i386" suffix denotes binary with i386 architecture. If you have no i386 installed prior to it - you won't find these binaries in graphical utilities.

Do this:
$ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
$ sudo apt-get install wine:i386

Then you can pull any custom wine version in PlayOnLinux. The more advanced version of this, is to pull wine:i386 dependencies without wine - and use POL-provided wine.

When did they used to work? What did you change in between? Did you upgrade your hardware? Software? Which distro are you using? These information might enable people to help you (probably not me though, as I'm a noob with Linux).