dawn/INSTALLATION.md

Game installation instructions

Minimal requirements:

• Any installation of wine >= 5.3 (sooner or later)

Highly recommended:

• Vulkan-capable graphics card ("How to check?")

Table of contents

• Lutris
• Steam
• Custom
• Controller Configuration

Lutris

1. Download the Windows installer from the official site
2. Add the installer binary to your library
3. Set up a wineprefix for the game
   • This is where the game will be installed. 40+ GiB of free space is highly recommended.
   • Grab a recent Wine runner. See TROUBLESHOOTING for problematic versions
4. Install the components the game needs to run flawlessly
   • Open Winetricks via the context menu
   • Install the font corefonts.
   • Enable DXVK in Configuration -> Runner options (1.7.3 or newer is recommended)
5. Launch the downloaded installer .exe
   • Use the Run EXE inside wine prefix menu action for this.
   • The C++ Redistributable Package is optional. You may cancel it.
   • Download and install the game files.
   • Once it is done, do not press launch. Exit the launcher.
6. Apply the patch script: "how?"
7. Play the game
   • In Configuration -> Game options -> Executable path, browse and select launcher.bat which you can find in the same directory as GenshinImpact.exe
   • Launch the game

Important note:

After setup you might have multiple Wine versions and multiple WINEPREFIX directories on your system. Hence running the wine command from your terminal will use another environment than Lutris does.

To open a command prompt which uses the correct environment, do either:

• Games -> Wine options (see bottom status bar or left side) -> Wine console
• Change the Executable path to cmd.exe

Steam

1. Download the official launcher
2. "Add non-Steam game..." -> Show all files -> Select the launcher executable -> Done
3. Setup proton (if not done using global settings)
   • Navigate: Gear icon -> "Settings" -> "Compatibility"
   • Check "Force compatibility layer ..."
   • Select Proton 5.13 or newer
4. Install the launcher and start it
   • The C++ Redistributable Package is optional. You may cancel it.
   • Download and install the game files.
5. Apply the patch script: "how?"
6. Update the target. Gear icon -> "Settings":
   • Target: explorer.exe
   • Execution directory: /path/to/your/gi/installation/
   • Start options: /desktop=anyname,1920x1080 cmd /c launcher.bat
   • Adjust the screen resolution above, if necessary.
7. Play.

Custom

Script-based approach to use any Wine version on any WINEPREFIX. If you do not understand what each step is supposed to do, use Lutris instead.

For the final game launch script after the prefix setup, use steps 1, 2 and 6.

# 1. Specify the path to wine(64)
#    This can be either system-wide or a custom installation
WINE="wine64"
#WINE="$HOME/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton 5.13/dist/bin/wine64"

# 2. Specify a WINEPREFIX
export WINEPREFIX="/absolute/path/to/.prefix/"

# 3. Create or update WINEPREFIX
"$WINE" wineboot -u

# 4. Install DXVK (v1.9.4, for Wine 5.14+)
#    Use the newest Winetricks script from GitHub
export WINE
sh winetricks dxvk194

# 5. Install the game (if not already done)
"$WINE" "/path/to/installer.exe"

# 6. Game launch
cd "/path/to/Genshin Impact Game"
export WINEESYNC=1  # requires staging or Proton, see TWEAKS.md
"$WINE" explorer /desktop=anyname,1920x1080 cmd /c launcher.bat

# 7. Game update
#    See `updater/README.md` or attempt to use the official launcher:
"$WINE" "/path/to/official/launcher.exe"

Controller Configuration

This section should not be documented in this repository. If you know of a better public place for documentation, please open an issue so that this information is available to more people.

Only follow these instructions if the newest Wine version does not already support your controller.

Dualsense

Source: lahvuun, Issue #216

1. Open regedit in your WINEPREFIX
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\winebus
3. Create a new DWORD, value 0, named Enable SDL
4. If there is yet no success: check the udev rule section below

Caveats: No force feedback or haptics (vibrations)

Other

Source: Alex72, Issue #228

General idea: specify the environment variable SDL_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG=?????.

Helpful resources to determine the value (?????):

• For permission-related issues: check the udev rule section below
• General mapping information: SDL_GameControllerDB
• SDL2 controller test tool
  • Required packages: build tools and SDL2
    • Debian/Ubuntu: libsdl2-dev
  • Compile with gcc -o controllermap controllermap.c $(sdl2-config --libs --cflags)
  • If compiling fails, either:
    • Install a newer SDL2 library
    • or download an older controllermap.c file which matches your installed version
• SDL2 Gamepad Mapper
• AntiMicroX

udev rule configuration

Some specific controllers might lack read permission.

• If game-devices-udev lists your controller, install it.
  • Run udevadm control --reload-rules or reboot to apply the changes
• Arch Wiki instructions for other controllers: Gamepad

Maybe helpful: wine control.exe shows a simple controller/gamepad testing application.