help! Linux with annoying compatibility issues!

[cynderthekitsune]

this is a whole topic in general for Windows (or really anything that gets Windows/Mac/etc but NEVER Linux or the annoying AppImage-only thing and nothing else).


so, i've had Linux since Windows 10 was really chugging my computer in general - it runs okay by itself, but any applications slow it down a hell of a lot, so MX Linux (what i'm using fulltime now) actually lets me run things at an okay framerate without slowing down.

i figured it's capable enough of some light 3D or okay 2D, especially since it runs Minecraft fine enough and it runs some web games at 20-25FPS fairly stable.
note that my laptop's not a gaming laptop - it has an Intel HD 4400 iGPU, and this laptop is a HP Elitebook 820 G1 from 2013. the only reason i'm doing so is because all my old gaming computers died because they were already set to die from manufacturing anyways.
though it has an Intel Core i7-4600U (1 physical processor, 2 cores, 4 threads), 8GB DDR3 SDRAM, and the iGPU (Intel HD 4400) like i just said before.


my first big issue is two things: A) many Steam games (even with Proton) don't run, because they want DirectX of some sort, which is painful (i use MX Linux and my laptop is from 2013), and B) most of the older Windows games running via Wine... break!

Touhou: Mountain of Faith doesn't run at all in Steam, so i downloaded it from the Archive, and ran it through Wine. though it worked the first time, that same day i tried getting UTAU to work. UTAU spits out silence and some mojibake still (even with locales installed) while MoF died permanently; it doesn't even boot anymore, i get dependancy errors and crap. and from that as well, i doubt any other Windows Touhou games would run, at least not the past ~5ish generations of them anyways.
i did remove Wine a few times, both manually and autoremoved it; still the same issues.

well, my second issue isn't specifically with video games, rather 3D modelling software. both MikuMikuDance and VTuber Maker (from Steam, MMD is from the Archive) and MMD via Wine... doesn't even bother to try and work. i can get to the menu, but it's laggy as hell even with the default Miku model (on MMD 2.X btw) and just trying to move the camera around is soo choppy. and the VTuber app from Steam doesn't even run, it just wants DirectX11 so badly.

...
honestly i might as well just backup everything on this laptop and reinstall Linux cuz it's driving me crazy!

[Cobra!]

I’ve never used MX Linux but from my experience from using Ununtu based distros for years, running wine or Steam from the terminal gives you outputs, and usually any error that occurs. Have you tried this?

Also, do you have a (good) graphics driver installed? Debian based distros usually come with an open source driver which is good for most things, but not gaming.

[cynderthekitsune]

yea, i've tried using the terminal in the past, but here's the full output:

Code

0074:err:wineusb:DriverEntry Failed to initialize Unix library, status 0xc0000135.
0074:err:ntoskrnl:ZwLoadDriver failed to create driver L"\\Registry\\Machine\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\wineusb": c0000135
003c:fixme:service:scmdatabase_autostart_services Auto-start service L"wineusb" failed to start: 126
00ac:err:hid:set_report_from_event TODO: Process Report (33152, 319)
00ac:err:hid:set_report_from_event TODO: Process Report (33152, 319)
00ac:err:hid:set_report_from_event TODO: Process Report (33152, 319)
00ac:err:hid:set_report_from_event TODO: Process Report (33152, 319)
00ac:err:hid:set_report_from_event TODO: Process Report (33152, 319)
00ac:err:hid:set_report_from_event TODO: Process Report (33152, 319)
00ac:err:hid:set_report_from_event TODO: Process Report (33152, 319)
00ac:err:hid:set_report_from_event TODO: Process Report (33152, 319)
00ac:err:hid:set_report_from_event TODO: Process Report (33152, 319)
00ac:err:hid:set_report_from_event TODO: Process Report (33152, 319)
00ac:err:hid:set_report_from_event TODO: Process Report (33152, 319)
00ac:err:hid:set_report_from_event TODO: Process Report (33152, 319)
00c8:err:vulkan:vulkan_init_once Failed to load libvulkan.so.1
plorer.exe: dlls/winex11.drv/xvidmode.c:164: xf86vm_free_modes: Assertion `modes[0].dmDriverExtra == sizeof(XF86VidModeModeInfo *)' failed.
wine: Assertion failed at address F7FF3559 (thread 00c8), starting debugger...
002c:err:vulkan:vulkan_init_once Failed to load libvulkan.so.1
0118:err:vulkan:vulkan_init_once Failed to load libvulkan.so.1
0120:err:vulkan:vulkan_init_once Failed to load libvulkan.so.1

(it stays here like it's running, but there's no window of it anywhere... so i have to manually kill it in the task manager)
this is for Mountain of Faith btw.

[Cobra!]

Hmm, well it’s saying it can’t read libvulkan… maybe look into (re)installing that?

What about the graphics driver situation?