Application Details:
| Version: | Steam |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://www.gta4.com/ |
| Votes: | 1 |
| Latest Rating: | Silver |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 8.0.1 |
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What works
General single-player gameplay, menus and configuration, saving and loading, etc.
What does not
Multiplayer or any other online features (which require LIVE)
Workarounds
What was not tested
I only went a bit into the game so far to determine that it works, it's possible (but unlikely) that later segments will reveal bugs.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Requires xliveless (see "HOWTO remove GFWL" below). You must set some custom launch options (right click the game in Steam, under Properties) or the game will be /very/ slow. Use at least "-norestrictions -nomemrestrict" . If at any point you manage to get the game into a setting that won't launch, use -windowed or -safemode. The game is normally configured only to use XBox 360 controllers (how obnoxious). I don't know whether it works out-of-the-box with these controllers under wine, but with a small hack it's possible to use other controllers, and I've verified that this works. The hack is here: http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=379477 .
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 22.04 "Jammy" (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jun 13 2023 | 8.0.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Silver | Joel Meijering | |
| Show | Gentoo Linux x86_64 | Apr 18 2021 | 6.6-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | James Calligeros | |
| Show | Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal" (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Apr 27 2021 | 6.4 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Luciano | |
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | May 06 2019 | 4.7-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Adam Moore | |
| Show | Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu) | Dec 26 2018 | 3.18-staging | N/A | Yes | Yes | Gold | Roman |
Games for Windows - LIVE does not work under Wine. GFWL components will crash any game that use the service. The only thing to do about it is to cut XLive out using XLiveLess Patch.
INSTRUCTIONS
1) Download the latest XLiveLess patch from here.
2) Unpack xlive.dll into the game folder.
XLive is out and the game launch is unobstructed. Please note that from now on the online play via GFWL is disabled so as to prevent cheating.
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by Dennis Mayr on Tuesday February 5th 2019, 17:05
However, it crashes under wine-stable 4.0 past the Niko Bellic menu screen, after clicking "Start", regardless of emulated Windows version.