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List of issues when running Roblox on Linux with Wine
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Current issues

  • Roblox Player throwing an unrecoverable error/not starting with +relay channel (this limits debugging potential so not relevant for average users)
  • No window decorations after exiting fullscreen on at least GNOME/Xfce (resizing the window brings them back though)
  • Screenshot key doesn't take Roblox screenshots when PrintScreen is used by the DE/WM (selecting "Screenshot" from the pause menu works though)
  • Any issues only present in non-Direct3D/DirectX graphics modes (likely unfixable without Roblox engine developer involvement)
  • Broken website windows in Player UI/login issues in Studio (requires fixes for WebView2)
  • Some Player UI website windows freezing even with WebView2 working (the cause for this is unknown)
  • Keyboard input issues with non-QWERTY keyboard layouts (Wine's keyboard layout handling is poor)
  • Black flickering windows in Studio: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52283 (multiple child window handling issue?)
  • Freeze after entering a place in Studio with MangoHUD and DXVK (don't know if it still happens)
  • Higher RAM usage than on Windows (needs a better comparison though)
  • Cursor doesn't lock on right-click/shift lock: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53557 (XWayland issue?)
  • Roblox throwing an unrecoverable error on CPUs without AVX support (it's unknown why this happens though)
  • Roblox Studio crashing when Wine is using 96 DPI: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55666 (the crash happens in some QString function for some weird reason)
  • Roblox Studio crashing/having a black screen with Vulkan/DXVK: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45277 (hopefully that patch can be upstreamed some day)
  • Facial animation feature not working in Roblox (it's an issue in qcap)
  • Huge input lag on lower framerates in Player
  • "Inverted camera" option doing nothing in Player (needs testing on Windows)

Regressions

Fixed issues

  • Roblox crashing on unhandled breakpoint exception with Wine versions prior to 8.17 (seems to be fixed by Roblox themselves)

Issues with workarounds

  • Built-in low-quality screen recording function is broken; needs "WM ASF Writer" DirectShow filter support (installing wmp11 and qasf with winetricks is a workaround)
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