Allows you to play games on Roblox.
Application Details:
| Version: | Player |
| License: | Free to use |
| URL: | https://www.roblox.com |
| Votes: | 114 |
| Latest Rating: | Gold |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 7.6-staging |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Playing any game as a guest user after using the workaround in Extra Comments
Using all tools in-game
Playing while logged in
*** READ EXTRA COMMENTS FOR THE WORKAROUND
What does not
Logging in to play games or playing premium games.
Chat (Guest users cannot chat)
Roblox Studio editing due to Internet Explorer dependency (???)
Workarounds
What was not tested
Video Recording (Should work)
Screenshots (Should work as well)
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
In order to run the game, one must run "winetricks cc580 pdh vcrun2008 winhttp wininet". wininet is absolutely necessary for the client to connect to the server and vcrun2008 is to fix various graphical glitches within the app. To play the game, open a terminal and type "wine cmd.exe". Once in wine's command prompt, enter the following commands, including the quotes: wine cmd C: cd "%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\RobloxVersions\version-*" &.\RobloxPlayerBeta.exe --id gameid Replace gameid with the ID from the URL of the game you wish to play. For example, if the game is located at http://www.roblox.com/Heli-Wars-Desert-Attack-place?id=483633, enter 483633 for the game ID. To log into your account, open the Roblox Studio and log in through there. Once logged in, the Roblox Player workaround will automatically use your account and any game you join will use that account. To log out, just open Roblox Studio and log out through there. The game itself should work flawlessly at this point :)
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 22.04 "Jammy" (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Apr 17 2022 | 7.6-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Xeon. D. R | |
| Show | Linux Mint 20.3 "Una" | Mar 19 2022 | 7.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Jonathan Lopez | |
| Show | Debian GNU/Linux 11.x "Bullseye" x86_64 | Mar 08 2022 | 7.0 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Jean-Marc Spaggiari | |
| Show | Artix Linux | Nov 02 2021 | 6.20-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Silver | Eureka | |
| Show | Manjaro Linux 21.1 | Sep 29 2021 | 6.18-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | ricardo |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 18388 | Roblox crashes on install with unimplemented function pdh.dll.PdhMakeCounterPathA | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 33989 | iexplore.exe crash when logging in to www.roblox.com | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 34121 | Roblox: builtin browser refuses to load pages | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 37043 | Keyboard input broken in Roblox Player | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 37051 | Roblox Studio embedded webpage does not load consistently or properly using built-in winhttp | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 38240 | D3D errors with Roblox Player (err:d3d:device_clear_render_targets >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GL_INVALID_ENUM (0x500) from glClearStencil @ device.c / 370) | CLOSED | WORKSFORME | View |
| 39142 | Roblox Client/Server connection is dropped with error "This server has shut down." | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 51301 | Any action that locks the cursor into place inside the Roblox Client window causes the cursor to freeze | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
| 51602 | Roblox Player: crashes when server-default_integrity/0007-ntdll-Elevate-processes-if-requested-in-RtlCreateUse.patch is applied | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 51829 | Roblox Player: Long freeze during loading | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 51995 | Roblox's bad performance on Wine | UNCONFIRMED | View |
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 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
by pogchamp on Thursday June 24th 2021, 8:08
by Bakon Bot on Thursday June 24th 2021, 8:57
by pogchamp on Thursday June 24th 2021, 12:26
by pogchamp on Thursday June 24th 2021, 15:13
by Bakon Bot on Thursday June 24th 2021, 16:30