ballance.md

Running Ballance on Linux using Lutris

Required: Lutris, Steam (you must have Ballance bought on Steam), Wine

This guide will show you how to get your copy of Ballance in a state similar to mine.

Note: installing BML Plus after following this guide will result in a blackwindow instead of the actual game. I do not know why and I do not have a solution.

Step 1: Install Ballance

Install Ballance on Steam.

Note: After installing it, I did run it once on Steam, but in retrospect, I don't think this is required, as we'll be making a new Wine prefix in the following step.

Step 2: Create a new 32-bit wine prefix

In my experience, Ballance would crash when running under a 64-bit prefix, so we'll be making a new 32 bit prefix.

Open a terminal, and run the following:

# in a folder where you want to make the prefix
$ mkdir wine32bit # can be whatever name you want
$ WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/full/path/to/wine32bit/ wineboot -u

Step 3: Create an entry for Ballance in Lutris

We'll create a new entry for Ballance in Lutris, as Lutris allows us to easily manage Wine related configs

Press the "+" button
Select "Add locally installed game"
Under "Game info", give it a suggestive name (such as Ballance, or Ballance 32bit) (step 1), and select the Wine runner (steps 2 and 3)
Choose the Executable, Working directory, Wine prefix and Prefix architecture as in the following screenshot, replacing the placeholders in the paths with your real paths

Step 4: Configure the entry's runner options

Under "Runner options", ensure your configs look like in the following screenshot: I believe the DLL overrides are necessary so that the right dgvoodoo DLLs are picked, but I'm not too sure and I don't really get it.

Step 5: Configure the entry's system options

Under "System options", toggle the "Disable Lutris Runtime"

Step 6: Installing patches, etc

Follow the instructions on: https://yyc12345.github.io/ballance-discord-rules/en/faq/

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