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Taige

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Registered: 2025-08-19

Posts: 39

Wine and Window games/programs

I read Wine's faq on how to start a windows program.
The instructions say:
Because Windows programs will often look for files in the location they were started from, when using the command line you should start them in a very specific way: "change directory" to the folder where the program is located and run the .exe file using only its filename. For example:

$ cd '.wine/drive_c/Games/Tron'
$ wine tron.exe

This command line works if the program/game is in an ssd with a Fat32 or Ntfs partition, right?

Last edited by Taige (2025-08-21 07:35)

theasmitkid

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From: NCT of Delhi

Registered: 2025-01-26

Posts: 345

Re: Wine and Window games/programs

Yep, you can run apps that are in NTFS or fat32 partitions

For most programs it is recommended to cd to the program's directory and run the program

cd /userdata/Apps/Portable/Windows
wine tron.exe

(I mount my NTFS partition as /userdata to store most of the data I wanna access across the operating systems)

But make sure your wine prefixes are installed in an ext4 partition otherwise it won't work
Also do not try to use your windows installation as a wine prefix, it would corrupt your windows installation

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Taige

Member

Registered: 2025-08-19

Posts: 39

Re: Wine and Window games/programs

Yep, you can run apps that are in NTFS or fat32 partitions

For most programs it is recommended to cd to the program's directory and run the program

cd /userdata/Apps/Portable/Windows
wine tron.exe

(I mount my NTFS partition as /userdata to store most of the data I wanna access across the operating systems)

But make sure your wine prefixes are installed in an ext4 partition otherwise it won't work
Also do not try to use your windows installation as a wine prefix, it would corrupt your windows installation

Thank you!