Magic the Gathering: Arena current version
Application Details:
| Version: | Current |
| License: | Free to use |
| URL: | https://magic.wizards.com/en/m... |
| Votes: | 11 |
| Latest Rating: | Gold |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 9.20 |
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What works
Everything works.
What does not
The launcher doesn't work and the updater fails often, which can be easily solved by using the .msi files directly.
The game might crash often or always if not using wine-mono 7.4 as suggested in "workarounds".
Workarounds
1. Download the wine-mono 7.4 .msi from here: https://dl.winehq.org/wine/win...
2. Download the latest MTGA .msi installer from here: https://mtgarena.downloads.wiz...
3. Use a new clean wine prefix and run the wine uninstaller:
export WINEARCH=win64
export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine64_new/
wine uninstaller
4. In the GUI, uninstall any existing wine-mono entries and install the two .msi files in that order (if not possible uninstall wine-mono in your package manager)
5. Execute the mouse bug fix:
wine reg ADD 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\X11 Driver' /v UseTakeFocus /d 'N' /f
6. Execute winecfg and turn on Graphics->"Emulate Virtual Desktop" with appropriate size
7. Install DXVK for greatly improved performance:
https://github.com/doitsujin/d...
tar xvzf dxvk-*.tar.gz; cd dxvk-*; setup_dxvk.sh install
Hint: For old nvidia 470xx cards, you have to use dxvk-1.10.
What was not tested
Nothing.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Arch Linux | Nov 13 2024 | 9.20 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | tqre | |
| Show | Arch Linux | Oct 06 2024 | 9.18 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | tqre | |
| Show | Arch Linux | Sep 24 2024 | 9.17 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | tqre | |
| Current | Arch Linux x86_64 | Aug 03 2023 | 8.12-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | John | |
| Show | Fedora 37 x86_64 | Apr 08 2023 | 8.4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | m8ram |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 32342 | Multiple applications and games using 'Webkit', 'Blink' or 'CEF' (libcef) web browser engine crash on startup ('Arial' and 'Times New Roman' font face name validation) | STAGED | View | |
| 47753 | Magic The Gathering: Arena (MTGA) issue crashing on start | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
| 48121 | Unity games do not fire OnApplicationFocus/OnApplicationPause events on focus regain | STAGED | View | |
| 49627 | Magic The Gathering: Arena Update manager needs Windows.Foundation.Diagnostics.AsyncCausalityTracer | RESOLVED | NOTOURBUG | View |
| 50537 | Magic the gathering Arena Installer: shows a grey background instead of black | NEW | View | |
| 50588 | Magic the gathering Arena: Game crashes after a game finished | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
| 50696 | Magic: The Gathering Arena shows a white window when trying to add fund | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
| 50903 | Magic the gathering Arena (MTGA) crashes when launching the game | UNCONFIRMED | View |
Make sure you use a wine version > 5.9. Prior versions suffer from a bug that causes the client to constantly crash when downloading the initial assets (https://bugs.winehq.org/show_b...). This has been fixed in wine versions > 5.9.
Other wine versions with known issues for MTGA:
After you moved your mouse outside the client or switched to a different virtual desktop, MTGA will not regain focus if you get back to the application.
To fix this focus issue you can add a registry key by running:
wine reg ADD 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\X11 Driver' /v UseTakeFocus /d 'N' /f
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