Context:
I'm currently running Debian 12.7 on VirtualBox, trying out linux before I become experienced enough to fully switch my drive to linux. I have an i5 cpu and an amd radeon gpu on my laptop. I run kde-plasma with wayland.
I have sorted out some basic stuff, but my current problem is how to play the few games I have on linux ("Counter-strike 1.6", "Hades I", "MGR: Revengeance", "Minecraft" (t-launcher) and "Outer-Wilds"). I want ro move their game data too, but I think that's a simple copy paste on the appropriate paths. I also want to run a few other programs, possibly Notepad++ and mp3tag, but I think I can figure those if I fugre the games.
I know about the existance of Wine, Winetricks (though not very good at using it), Proton, Lutris, Bottles and Heroic (and PlayOnLinux which I haven't installed).
I have installed Lutris (flatpak), Bottles (flatpak) and Heroic (Appimage).
I have successfully manually installed Notepad++ in Bottles using soda-9.0.1 and semi-successfully manually installed Counter-strike 1.6 on Lutris using wine-ge-8-26-x86_64. The issues with that (among others?) is that I cant look around with the mouse and there is no audio. Apparently some dependencies are missing.
So, this comes to my question:
How do I figure what dependencies to use on my wineprefixes?
Lutris, bottles and heroic theoritically allow you to edit the dependencies, in case something goes wrong. Lutris also is supposed to have some installation scripts on their database.
Is there any way I can find any configuration in text form? How can I then use this text to pick the dependencies myself?
I'm thinking of a list with the recommended changes:
Counter-strike 1.6 installation script:
Install
Windows fonts
Install
cmd
Install
vcrun2013
Do
Xchanges on registry
etc.
Is there such a thing? Is there any other way to figure this out (other than painfully and randomly trying setup combinations)?
maybe you can try to change the runner of the game, you could try with proton-ge instead of wine-ge, or some other thing
I do that on Lutris in case the game doesn't work, or it is slower than it should be, or it has problems with input or output
upto now every game I wanted to install worked with at least one of the options
edit: also other easy things you might try can be the windows version and the bit architecture
if some of these options don't work quickly, you can check on wine's website or proton's website, where you can find reccomended configurations for games and software
I will try
Edit: it seems like for cs1.6 at least there arent practiallt any configuration files :/
I think they should at least advise me to use gecko, but they emit that.