Linux Wine

Running on Linux

It is possible to run ORTS-MG on Linux. This has been tested on Arch Linux with Wine Stable 7.0-1

The newest release on GitHub Releases works with Linux.

How To

1. Create 64 bit prefix and install libraries: $ WINEPREFIX="$HOME/ormg" winetricks corefonts dotnetcoredesktop3
2. Install DXVK (https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk) - refer to your distro's instructions on how to do this
3. Unpack the release into $HOME/ormg/drive_c

Run: $ WINEPREFIX="$HOME/ormg" wine "C:\Program\netcoreapp3.1\Menu.exe"

Notes

• Performance is quite nice - I get 130FPS on a fairly crowded area with many objects on Intel integrated graphics. I get 160FPS with faster object loading with a budget dedicated graphics card (Nvidia 1650ti)
• It is easy to move the camera below the tracks which causes rendering issues.
• The "emulate a virtual desktop" feature in Wine does not work because of some DXVK issues.
• The amount of graphics card memory and other system parameters may not be obtained due to the lack of System.Management libraries.
• If there is the error of hostfxc.dll not found, please remove dotnet-host from the host (Linux) system.
• Launching with the OpenRails.exe launcher does not work. You must use Menu.exe
• Fullscreen works but you need to add -norestrictions to the command line