Hello fellow Linux gamers! I have the mentioned problem while using a Lutris fullscreen game (Sims 2). This problem is when i use Lutris’ WineGE 8.26 but not when i use the systems Wine 9.0. Sadly my game runs like shit with 9.0. I can’t find anything on the internet regarding this problem, except a 3 year old Reddit post that has no comments. Does anybody know how I can possibly fix this?

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
    8·
    1 day ago

    WineGE is old and dead. Don’t use that. Some other things:

    • You sure the game is set to Fullscreen and not “Borderless Window”? There’s a big difference.
    • Try to ALT+Tab once in and out of the window to see if it snaps back into focus.
    • Try Wine 10+ instead. Perhaps a regression was fixed
    • Try Proton instead of Wine if using Lutris. Works fine on Deck.
    • Captain Baka@feddit.orgOP
      1·
      1 day ago

      I really think it must be fullscreen, because the game din’t even start when I set a windowed mode preset.

      Lutris doesn’t let me install other Wine versions. IDK why. I’m restricted to these two versions. Proton doesn’t even show up in in my configuration even tho I installed it from my package manager.

      ALT+Tab really did something. After focusing the game again the taskbar is gone! Thanks for that tip!