Allows you to play games on Roblox.
Application Details:
Version: | Player |
License: | Free to use |
URL: | https://www.roblox.com |
Votes: | 122 |
Latest Rating: | Garbage |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 9.9 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Installer Process
What does not
Inbuilt browser of the game
Workarounds
What was not tested
Gameplay, Multiplayer functionality
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
The program will run, however, the browser part, which is essential for use doesn't work. I believe that this browser is based in IE so it may not work because of that
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Show | Furreto Linux | May 28 2024 | 9.9 | Yes | No | No | Garbage | Furret | |
Show | Arch Linux | May 23 2024 | 9.8-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Garbage | gavin | |
Show | Arch Linux | Feb 01 2024 | 9.1-staging | Yes | No | Yes | Garbage | gavin | |
Show | macOS 14 "Sonoma" | May 14 2024 | 9.0 | No | Not installable | No | Garbage | Ashrith Ayushman | |
Show | Ubuntu 23.10 "Mantic" (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Mar 03 2024 | 9.0 | Yes | No | Yes | Garbage | LuaGunsX |
It is definitely possible to go through all of the steps of installing Roblox through it's installer, as well as everything that is needed for Roblox to run and configuring it's settings.
However, as this process is tedious, especially for someone who just wants to get Roblox up and running, there are a few wrappers to make this process easier:
As of the time of writing this, Roblox Player doesn't work when ran with Wine.
The reason being is that Roblox's new anti-cheat is uncompatible with Wine's current function implementations.
To avoid any confusion caused by sensationalist Linux news sources - no, Roblox did not intentionally ban Wine, nor is the company against Wine. As a matter of fact, when they were starting to introduce their new anti cheat, they have toned it down for Wine players exclusively so that they can keep on playing. Knowing this vulnerability, however, a considerable amount of cheaters have moved to Linux and have started developing cheats for Roblox on Wine. To prevent this, Roblox has introduced the same anti cheat capabilities for Wine players as it has for Windows players, effectively killing not only the possibility of Roblox on Wine cheats being developed, but also the possibility to run Roblox Player with Wine.
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by Josesk Volpe on Friday October 20th 2023, 22:03
wiki.winehq.org/Regression_Testing
by John Doe on Saturday October 7th 2023, 3:22
by Jason Boucher on Monday October 9th 2023, 20:40
by Joshthedog on Friday August 25th 2023, 20:53
by Josesk Volpe on Friday August 25th 2023, 22:11
by gavin on Sunday August 27th 2023, 1:02
by gavin on Monday August 28th 2023, 6:42
by gavin on Monday August 28th 2023, 7:25
Im just not going to bother with WineHQ comments anymore, its a complete dumpster fire of a mess.
by Josesk Volpe on Thursday May 4th 2023, 11:43
by Josesk Volpe on Thursday May 4th 2023, 11:51
by Joshthedog on Sunday August 27th 2023, 0:18
by Josesk Volpe on Monday August 28th 2023, 7:23
by Josesk Volpe on Monday August 28th 2023, 10:21
by Josesk Volpe on Thursday February 23rd 2023, 21:50
However, the games are still very playable and it's still possible to play games that depends on it if you ignore the pointer. When the cursor reaches the corner, it doesn't get out of it and won't prevent you from doing multiple 360�. I didn't tested it with legacy games wich depends on mouse raycasting while it's in the center though.
by Josesk Volpe on Friday February 24th 2023, 6:48
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 Joshthedog on Monday August 28th 2023, 6:40
by Joshthedog on Monday August 28th 2023, 6:40
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 4g5wyb 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