Allows you to play games on Roblox.
Application Details:
Version: | Player |
License: | Free to use |
URL: | https://www.roblox.com |
Votes: | 119 |
Latest Rating: | Silver |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 7.21-staging |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
The game itself runs nicely, light to medium games runs fine. Heavier games might have some frame drops and performance degradations issues. But generally, the game runs just fine
What does not
1. Mouse getting stuck, this happens when you right click on a game or if a game grabs your mouse.
2. Frame drops, although it has been rarer in Wine version 6.20. It still occurs here and there
3. Very bad performance degradation, for a light game like Boost Vector, this works fine and you won't notice the performance degradation until 3-4+ hours of playing, especially if you cap the fps at 60. But for games like Arsenal or Phantom Forces, just 20-30 minutes you can already feel the framerate constantly spikes and fps keeps dipping. Keep in mind, that performance degradation depends on your hardware too
4. Some people may have texture corruption in Player or Studio
5. DXVK causes Studio to render black windows and crashes Studio sometimes
Workarounds
1. Mouse getting stuck can be resolved with a patched Wine, the patch is on https://github.com/Frogging-Fa..., which can be applied to Staging Wine
2. Frame drops can be minimized with using a different renderer, such as OpenGL, and Vulkan. DXVK can be used as well
3. This problem can be minimized with the method above. But, this one is more noticeable and is inevitable for low to mid hardware
4. This can be resolved by using DXVK or other renderer
5. Uninstall DXVK or use another wineprefix without DXVK
What was not tested
Since Roblox is a huge platform, many games are not tested. But generally, games should work fine. It is rather rare for someone to have a very specific problem, but even then it can be solved by changing simple settings such as the renderer
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Note that my experience heavily involves Grapejuice, which is a wrapper and a tool to manage Roblox on Linux. I recommend you to install this and join the Grapejuice discord server for more support
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Show | Fedora 37 x86_64 | Nov 16 2022 | 7.21-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Silver | PhoenixCausesOof | |
Show | Ubuntu 22.04 "Jammy" (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Dec 30 2022 | 7.0.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Alex Nagaya | |
Show | Fedora 36 x86_64 | Oct 22 2022 | 7.19-staging | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | PhoenixCausesOof | |
Show | Debian GNU/kFreeBSD Unstable "Sid" | Oct 04 2022 | 7.18 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Xeon. D. R | |
Show | Ubuntu 22.04 "Jammy" (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Sep 07 2022 | 7.16-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Jonathan Alfonso |
Wrappers such as Grapejuice and Roblox Linux Wrapper make installing and running Roblox much easier.
Both projects have an installation guide on their pages.
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by isaac ortiz on Monday September 5th 2022, 20:06
by Alex Nagaya on Friday January 27th 2023, 8:07
by Josesk Volpe on Friday March 11th 2022, 13:46
For example, for the mouse and lag issue, you could detail about that on What does not works instead of describing it on What works
by Josesk Volpe on Wednesday November 3rd 2021, 16:21
According to the other reports, wined3d crashes with heavier games, so we have in mind that we can use alternatives to that
Nobody has tested vkd3d yet
Roblox has also their own OpenGL and Vulkan implementation, but:
*OpenGL is incomplete, graphics effects looks uglier and has much fewer effects than Vulkan, DirectX and Metal (MacOS). Performance is also not better than on DXVK and wined3d on lower graphics (wich looks the same in quality)
*Vulkan Roblox implementation is bad. It's way slow and even worst on integrated graphics. Although you don't seem to have much issue with input lag, the framerates are very bad. It's not the best alternative even for dedicated graphics users.
DXVK had much better performance and less crash for most users, although (on my tests) i've got more input lag
by Bakon Bot on Wednesday November 3rd 2021, 17:18
For example, I use AMD Vega integrated graphics and Vulkan runs perfectly for me. On an old AMD graphics card I used, OpenGL ran far better than even Roblox on Windows (couldn't test DXVK because the GPU doesn't support Vulkan but I think OpenGL would still run faster due to lower graphics quality)
by Josesk Volpe on Thursday November 4th 2021, 1:02
Using native OpenGL is the best option for older hardware that doesn't support Vulkan
by Josesk Volpe on Saturday January 15th 2022, 1:13
Note that it's my experience on my hardware, on my operating system.
GPU: Intel HD Graphics 620
CPU: Intel i3-7100U
RAM: 12GB (4GX + 8GB)
Operating System: Manjaro Linux
Kernel version: Linux 5.15.12-1-MANJARO
by Josesk Volpe on Thursday September 30th 2021, 18:50
Like... You need to compile Wine-tkg with a custom patch to solve the cursor issue, wich is a major issue on this software
But the rest works out-of-the-box, other patches like DXVK are optional, so it's most likely a Silver application than a Gold one yet
by ricardo on Monday November 1st 2021, 12:30
by Josesk Volpe on Tuesday November 2nd 2021, 0:56
If that were only a issue with the mouse freezing thing, then Roblox Player could be Gold because you can build Wine with a patch to solve that and it would work just alike or better than on Windows. But you'll still face problems with the recording feature, mouse input lag and microstutters depending on the hardware and operating system (For example, i had this problem on Intel HP G47 using Zorin Lite but not on Zorin Core), wich currently has no workaround
Silver means that a application works with some workarounds or out-of-the-box, but has minor issues wich has no workarounds. Gold applications are softwares wich works with some configurations and shows no issues after configuring it.
So i would agree more if Roblox Player were a Silver application.
by Spyridon Pi on Sunday August 22nd 2021, 10:00
by Bakon Bot on Sunday August 22nd 2021, 11:19
by Eureka on Thursday November 4th 2021, 18:14
by Conner on Sunday July 11th 2021, 23:01
by Conner on Monday July 12th 2021, 0:38