I’m new to this and have been trying to get Fallout NV to run on my Chromebook Plus. I had Fallout 3 running great but at some point I did something so that FO3 fails to launch.
Can I do something like a fresh install? I don’t care about losing data/ games.
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Wine “prefixes” are just directories. Have you tried deleting it and using a fresh prefix?
Speaking as a Linux newb here…what exactly is a “prefix” in this context? :/
It’s an environment in wich it makes the game run sort of
So it’s the components of Wine that produces its fabled compatibility layer?
It creates an arborescence that contains the necessary library for you application to work with a thick layer of magic on top of that to make it all work. This is were my understanding is at at least
Sorry for my ignorance, but could you ELI5 that for me?
I don’t know what an arborescence is.
There’s another comment that explains it in more details than me but it’s a hierarchy of files your C://user/you/appdata…etc and since it branches into multiple choices you can call it an arborescence if you will.
Delete /home/username/.wine directory
Then in terminal run: winecfg
Literally does what you want! You WILL lose anything installed in default prefix, like games/apps, if you didn’t make separate prefixes for them.
Edit: Just saw you’re running chromebook, the locations might differ. My notes were for Debian/Ubuntu & their flavors.
You could delete it from lutris. I think that would nuke the prefix for FO3, thus allowing you to install freshly.
