Roblox

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Application Details:

Version:	Roblox Player
License:	Free to use
URL:	https://www.roblox.com
Votes:	107
Latest Rating:	Garbage
Latest Wine Version Tested:	5.0.2

Maintainers: About Maintainership

Jonathan Alfonso

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Test Results

Old test results

The test results you have selected are very old and may not represent the current state of Wine.

Selected Test Results

What works

Roblox Studio runs fine and you can use it to login in.

Roblox Player Launcher works fine, but it opens the webpage in the native browser, not in browser within the Wine environment.

What does not

I cannot figure out how to get the player to try to start a game.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Actually playing a game.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

GPU: Nvidia
Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

The command line options reported by the Roblox Player Beta are:

-? [ --help ]: Display the help.
-g [ --globalBasicSettingsPath ] arg: Specify path to the global settings.
-v [ --version ]: Display the current version.
-h [ --hash] arg: Web hash launch key, overrides other launch args.
-c [ --content ] arg: Specify path to the content directory.
-a [ --authenticationUrl ] arg: Specify authentication URL from server.
-t [ --authenticationTicket ] arg: Specify game session ticket from server.
-j [ --joinScriptUrl ] arg: URL of launch script from server.
-b [ --browserTrackerId ] arg: Specify browser tracking ID from website.
-w [ --waitEvent ] arg: Window is invisible until this event occurs.
--API arg: Output API file.
-d [ --dmp ]: Upload crash dump.
--play: Specifies the launching of a game.
--app: Specifies the launching of an application.
--fast: Uses fast starttup path.
--launchtime arg: Specify the launch time from the browser.

I cannot figure out how to get URLs etc to pass to these arguments.

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Aug 26 2020	5.0.2	Yes	No	No	Garbage	Connor Turner
Show	Arch Linux x86_64	Jun 15 2020	5.10	Yes	Yes	No	Garbage	Bakon Bot
Show	Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan" (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Mar 31 2020	5.4-staging	Yes	Yes	No	Garbage	Jonathan Alfonso
Show	Linux Mint 19.2 Tina	Dec 13 2019	4.21	Yes	Yes	Yes	Garbage	NerduMiner
Show	Arch Linux x86_64	Nov 24 2019	4.20	Yes	No	No	Garbage	Akos Miklos

Known Bugs

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."	UNCONFIRMED		View
48306	Roblox Player: Client kicked with Error Code 268	UNCONFIRMED		View

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HowTo / Notes

Information regarding OpenGL vs DirectX mode

In older versions of Wine, Roblox Player & Studio work far better with OpenGL graphics enabled.

To enable OpenGL mode, open the Roblox Studio, click "File", then "Settings", followed by "Rendering". A prompt will come up saying "Changing settings may make ROBLOX unstable". Click OK. Under the Rendering submenu, change the option "graphicsMode" from "Direct3D" to "OpenGL". Restart Roblox Studio.

The game should now perform much better.

We recommend using Wine 5.0 or higher.

Note about installing Roblox on Linux easily

Running Roblox on Linux is easiest when using a helper script, such as Grapejuice or Roblox Linux Wrapper. You can obtain Grapejuice by clicking this link and Roblox Linux Wrapper by clicking this link. Each project has instructions to follow on how to install Roblox on Linux.

Warning

The Roblox game client is using anti-cheat and security features (VMProtect) that prevent Wine (and other emulators) from connecting to servers.

The client will load up just fine and you will be connected for a brief second but will be forced into a disconnect within 10 seconds.

Comments

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Can't run on OpenGL Graphic Mode
by SaraParker on Monday May 18th 2020, 2:14

I want to run it on OpenGL graphics but unfortunately, it gives an error i.e. "unable to initialize OpenGL" and it also says that please install the latest driver of OpenGL that was mention in an article of britishcoursework.com however I already update it but this error is persistent. Do you have any solution to this issue?