Application Details:
Version: | Roblox Player |
License: | Free to use |
URL: | https://www.roblox.com |
Votes: | 107 |
Latest Rating: | Garbage |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 6.2-staging |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
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:
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.
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Feb 13 2021 | 6.2-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Garbage | Bakon Bot | |
Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Jan 17 2021 | 5.22-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Garbage | Gongaga | |
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 |
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 |
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.
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.
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.
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.
by SaraParker on Monday May 18th 2020, 2:14
by Ella M Fletcher on Friday May 15th 2020, 4:26