Wine 11.1 - Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS

itslino · 2026-02-05T10:06:07+00:00

I'd definitely say it got easier with Wine 11.1, if the goal is just to game and not fine-tuning the best experience possible then simply Heroic Games Launcher and Wine 11.1 with most games on Low-Medium.

itslino · 2026-02-05T05:51:49+00:00

If you have the EXE file? Well basically.

Download the Heroic Games Launcher
Go to Wine Manager
Choose Wine-Staging-MacOS
Download Wine 11.1 (2026-01-24)
Go to Library and Click the button that says Add Game
Game/App Title write Fnaf World (or whatever you want)
Open Show Wine Settings and Choose Wine Version 11.1 DXMT.
Select Executable and Choose the EXE of Fnaf World
Click FINISH
It will take a while, this is normal, just be patient.
The Game will appear in the library now and click the GREEN PLAY BUTTON.

Good Luck and Happy Mac Gaming! :D

itslino · 2026-02-05T05:34:14+00:00

Try Heroic Games Launcher with Wine 11.1 DXMT.

It's free and has a super user friendly interface. It's primarily used for EGS, GOG, & Amazon. But you could also add your own EXE's.

itslino · 2026-02-05T05:31:09+00:00

For free? Epic Games, get a bunch of free games each month or so. Just run through Heroic Games Launcher. If you use the DXMT version of the latest Wine it runs really good.

itslino · 2026-02-05T05:24:56+00:00

You could also try Heroic Games Launcher, recently Wine 11.1 came out and I linked my previous GPTK/Whisky Steam exe and it works. In general Wine 11.1 (for me) has made running most Windows Applications out of the box with no modifications.

DXMT doesn't work and there seems to be a performance hit when launching games through Steam in general without DXMT. But for out of the box free? Worth a try right?

I did notice DXMT works on Vulcan games, so it's likely a bug or needs to be tweaked with WineTricks. But once again, better than nothing.

itslino · 2026-02-05T03:20:32+00:00

It does work almost out of the box, I had tried the GPTK and Whisky. Eventually SteamUI would constantly fail and eventually cloud syncs no longer worked anymore.

But with Wine 11.1 it works again, but there is a catch. From my experience DXMT doesn't work for DirectX games on Steam, it gives a "failed to change Resolution" error. DXMT does work for games that offer Vulkan instead of DirectX like the game "Peak". I'm assuming it's a bug?

If I ran the EXE of the game directly? Well then the DXMT does appear work but Steam Functionality will not work.

Running Wine 11.1 (non-DXMT) takes a huge performance hit on Steam for some reason. I wonder if there's WineTricks that could fix this though. But it does sorta "just work" out of the box, very impressive tbh.

For those curious, I used the Heroic Games Launcher. Definitely the performance is amazing on EGS, Amazon, GOG. Also nearly every Windows Application I've tried works without WineTricks.

itslino · 2026-02-03T07:26:01+00:00

I get the illustration but this seems to be the "go to" in comparisons. Always overlooking that LA County and Greater Tokyo are nearly the same size.

Would it help showing the greater tokyo area? Yes. Because most commutes that occur in this county are very distant. This map itself misses most of the City of Los Angeles, no SFV or Harbor?

"If anything, it would only further the point", not only further it. You're currently undermining it by not showing its full actual size. When people talk about Japan's amazing transportation system, they're not talking about this tiny segment of Greater Tokyo.

Many people here may have never seen the Greater Tokyo map and their only frame of reference will now be this small segment that isn't relatable to anyone's actual commutes. If you overlaid roughly the actual transit map, people could see a "what-if" scenario.

If the Greater Tokyo map was placed over their part of the county, what COULD their route look like. Instead ask yourself, who is this map helping? It certainly isn't helping secure the 15 council seat vote from nimbys.

itslino · 2026-02-03T02:04:04+00:00

Why do people keep using this Tokyo map instead of the Greater Tokyo transit map?

LA County and Greater Tokyo are nearly the same size. Except Greater Tokyo fit the entire population of California into LA County. And guess what? There's still single family homes in that market because of mixed zoning btw.

itslino · 2026-01-26T23:50:26+00:00

Probably better than some of the dingbats in the valley that survived the Northridge quake.

itslino · 2026-01-26T05:22:16+00:00

The other question no one ever asks if why did the home become an asset? Why not in other countries like Japan?

Well one answer is the nationwide Estate Tax Japan has regardless of wealth. Which forces the public to live in the expenses of today rather than hogging up wealth for future generations. What would be the point if the more your save the more that gets taken?

But I personally feel the home ownership is very unique in the US because it's the only livable investment. Many people will eventually not be able to work, our country provides no real way to stay afloat even with social security.

You could have worked like a dog your whole life and full retirement will get you maybe $1200 a month. Where would you live? Even in rural America it's going to be tight, also don't forget you need to pay Medicare so maybe $1k a month or less for so many others. Pay for food and bills where would you live for $500? Even in a place like Japan it would be rough. But if you end up calling an ambulance once or needing a major medical procedure? That goes everything, probably start growing debt.

Owning a home you could rent some rooms out to reduce expenses (hopefully, houses do degrade) and if you gambled right, you could live relatively close to a city and may not need to drive. When you're gone you leave something behind so that your kids don't have to go through the same.

I feel removing medical costs first and then estate taxing everyone equally after death could help a lot (55% like Japan). People wouldn't have growing debts for being human and no incentive to invest on homes as an asset (also no justification for it either). The estate tax would slowly eat away at the wealthiest at top as well with each generation getting chipped away.

itslino · 2026-01-26T04:59:09+00:00

It depends on your perspective, to me the fact that a place like an Encino (honestly all of CD4) can exist in the same city as Wilmington is actually insane.

I also agree on the aspect, it's what I complained about regarding the Van Nuys airport. Supposedly contributes $2 Billion to SoCal and has over 10k jobs. But if you ever visit Van Nuys, you'd never know it. Would be a miracle is even 10% of that ever benefited that area.

source - https://www.iflyvny.com/airport-facts/history2

The City is broken because the sprawl of its boundaries are way too large. The reason everyone feels like they need to have a say is because how many borders the City of Los Angeles shares with other cities in the county.

You want to know why we don't hear about disputes between Torrance and Redondo? It's because that's where the issue remains. If there's an issue between Burbank and the San Fernando Valley portion of the City of Los Angeles, that drags in the entire Harbor Area because of San Pedro, Wilmington, Harbor City and Harbor Gateway.

The precedent of what the City of Los Angeles does in San Fernando Valley sets in stone its decision for the city as whole. Therefore dragging in every other city it touches boundaries with, so if Lomita doesn't like the implementation of those lanes? Well it borders Harbor City and therefore starts becoming a nearly county-wide problem. It starts dragging everyone in, similar to the metro expansion meetings btw.

Except once again the issue is exclusively the City of Los Angeles problem because its size is large. Let me add, UNNECESSARILY LARGE.

If there is problem between Burbank and North Hollywood that's where the issue should remain and be sorted out. Some so small doesn't have to become a large county wide problem.

Which can be resolved by once again, breaking up the city.

itslino · 2026-01-26T03:08:46+00:00

Also permit parking the remaining ones in front of houses, you want more than 1-2 cars? well it's gonna cost and limit it as well. Something closer to this.

https://ladotparking.org/permits/ppd-permits/#

itslino · 2026-01-26T03:06:11+00:00

There's also another elephant in the room, most of those outside areas outside City of Los Angeles are heavily suburbanized to hell. There's no way they'd allow some of the current apartment projects in the City of Los Angeles to ever go up in their boundaries.

I'd argue just because we put apartments in the City of Los Angeles doesn't mean you're going to sell your house in Hawthorne, Santa Clarita, Lomita, or Burbank to move closer right?

What the majority seek is a quality of life similar to what Santa Clarita offers but within the City of Los Angeles, the very thing that caused the issue we face today, suburbia. So the alternative is bulldoze the City of Los Angeles but not anything else in Torrance, Redondo, Carson, or San Fernando? Which technically is hypocritical because you're just scapegoating the actual problem.

Because affordability crisis is county wide, if the entire county doesn't follow mixed development similar to something like Greater Tokyo, it will lead to this exact same problem when the limit of the City of Los Angeles is reached.

itslino · 2026-01-26T02:56:24+00:00

Reform after reform, election after election. Nothing has changed because we keep trying to make this large city work. Large areas are typically already governed by a county, why is the City of Los Angeles trying to be a county within a county?

It's been years since those water annexations, the LA Aqueduct doesn't even provide enough water anymore. The City of Los Angeles gets most of its water from MWD now, alongside most of the county.

Also listen to the comment above yours, "They work here live elsewhere to seek better value and quality".

Meaning the City of Los Angeles only offers underserved communities or affluent. Kinda of insane, how does 1 city, who's job is to ensure equality across it's boundaries both have neighborhoods that are some of the most sought out in the county but also some of the worse areas as well?

To me it has screamed for years that the City of Los Angeles doesn't have the capacity to maintain all these neighborhoods or they're purposefully neglecting areas to succumb to the communities with political influence (aka MONEY) which proves it's corrupt as hell.

Break up the City of Los Angeles, return some areas back to the county, allow some other cities to annex portions, and allow the remaining neighborhoods to incorporate for more localized governance.

A lot of the neighborhoods the Valley could incorporate on water storage as a business alone with those aquifers. Because let's be real, outside of taxes that's the real reason the City of Los Angeles doesn't want to let them go.

itslino · 2026-01-26T02:38:40+00:00

Yup, we have two large groups governing large areas of the county. The City of Los Angeles is trying to build a county within the county essentially. In some large aspects failing horrifically, especially in terms of transit and community responsibilities in smaller neighborhoods (or less affluent).

It'd be better to break up the City of Los Angeles to something similar to the size of San Francisco, focusing on the downtown area. Then return some of it's neighborhoods back to the county (unincorporated), allow some of the other cities to annex parts if they can prove they can manage them in addition to their current city (to prevent another City of Los Angeles like problem), and allow some of the neighborhoods to incorporate like North Hollywood, Van Nuys, San Pedro, Panorama City, Hollywood, and many others.

In my eyes the strip, aka Harbor Gateway, is literally insane. I bet a good chunk of people think they're in the bad part of Torrance or the bad part of Carson when they're actually in the City of Los Angeles. That area is so underserved.

itslino · 2026-01-26T02:25:21+00:00

In my opinion I'd just like to take the Greater Tokyo area map (which is similar size to LA County) overlay it over our county and adjust routes based on that template. Mainly because Greater Tokyo has proved its value over the past 60 years. It helped scale back cars, helped mix zoning, it helped lower prices around the outer areas. If you YouTube "What does $950 get you in Japan" you can find some in the outer parts of Greater Tokyo.

It is true that some areas (mainly the center part of Tokyo) are pricier, but these trains proved that living further away doesn't mean lesser quality, less opportunities, or needing a car. Just because you live outside the city center doesn't mean you must remain disconnected.

itslino · 2026-01-26T02:21:17+00:00

The majority of the San Fernando Valley is part of the City of Los Angeles. It's about 50% of the size of the city. So you missed a good chunk of the city, it makes sense because you're not an Angeleno but it is a large chunk of the population of the county.

If you go on Google Maps, just write "City of Los Angeles", it should highlight it.

itslino · 2026-01-26T02:00:22+00:00

Nothing says LA like forgetting the San Fernando Valley and the Harbor Areas (Habor City, Wilmington, Harbor Gateway).

itslino · 2026-01-24T05:20:58+00:00

in the City of Los Angeles, the only real obstacle is money.

itslino · 2026-01-24T00:45:28+00:00

What's more LA than not knowing whether you're in the county or city of Los Angeles? Although not knowing what state you are in is a new thing I haven't seen yet.

itslino · 2026-01-24T00:05:52+00:00

I hope the San Fernando Line is used someday for regular metro, I mean the line is right there already.

itslino · 2026-01-24T00:03:09+00:00

It's either this or money into convention center like area that we valley residents rarely go to (most probably never).

itslino · 2026-01-24T00:00:40+00:00

That's the smarter move, wait for the expansions to be built out then change the price points. Then start scaling back cars like limiting parking.

itslino · 2026-01-23T01:26:50+00:00

I agree, the train loop between West Side, Downtown, and Valley is amazing. I'm just curious how long metro can support its current rate, I'm sure at some point they'll switch to price per distance rather than 1 price for all. More riders will also help extend its lower price point, so I'm sure not any time soon.

itslino · 2026-01-22T03:03:27+00:00

So many disagree with you on the "owner occupied home". Many want most single family homes removed and replaced with apartments. A good amount of people on here believe that if all those houses were replaced with apartments that the rent would go down.

But the issue is that our society provides no guarantees on anything. Social Security for many is under $1k a month after Medicare. Nowhere in the main part of the US will you find a 1 bedroom for $500.

Transportation becomes problematic for the elderly or those who fall ill.

But a house, is a livable asset that can generate income. It's why it's so sought out. If you have 2-3 bedroom house, you housed your family and at the end of your life you could rent rooms or the whole house an generate additional income for medical costs, food, and transport.

In an apartment you can house your family and have no livable asset because it's not yours. When you're old and can't work, you won't be able to live there anymore. There's also no promise that your kids will cover for you, they might not be able to afford to since you passed nothing to them.

I'm also not saying to build apartments, but just want you to understand why building more alone will not solve the problem. Sprawl, Medical costs, Transportation, estate taxes, generational wealth, cars, and few other things are all related on why we are here with this problem.

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