Installing Jade Empire with Lutris

Hey everyone. Klebs here and today, let’s find out how to install a Windows game using Wine and the registry editor. For this example, we’ll go with Jade Empire and we’ll refer to the installation script from Lutris here.

How to run the registry editor

Jade Empire (script in Lutris)

Here, we see that the installation script for the GOG version of Jade Empire mentions toying with the Windows registry (see the line name: set_regedit in the task section). Assuming the installation was completed successfully, the next step would be to run the registry editor using the following command:

wine regedit

How to find out which data to edit in the registry editor

Jade Empire (registry editor) Jade Empire (registry editor)

Still referring to the Lutris installation script for the GOG version of Jade Empire, the relevant info can be found at the following lines in the task section:

  • key: csmt
  • path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D
  • type: REG_DWORD
  • value: ‘00000000’

This means that in the registry editor, the following data should be entered in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Direct3D folder:

  • Nom: csmt
  • Type: REG_DWORD
  • Valeur: 00000000

Final touches

Jade Empire (title screen)

If there’s nothing else within the script, the game is ready to be played. In Jade Empire’s case though, I checked in ProtonDB and I noticed that for the Steam version, users would add this command line as a parameter to improve performance:

taskset -p 4 “$(pidof JadeEmpire.exe)”

Conclusion

Even if one day, Lutris gets an update that uses a new way to install GOG games without hiccups, I think I’ll keep installing my Windows games directly using Wine. That way, I’ll keep learning about Wine and ways to optimize games as I see fit. My next goal is to find more Windows games requiring extra steps like Jade Empire did with the registry editor and learn as I go using information from Lutris and ProtonDB.

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