Issues

Limitations

Scripts don't work

You cannot use scripts when running Playnite inside Wine due to it not being able to run PowerShell scripts. Functionalities affected:

• Loading script-based extensions
• Game scripts
• Application scripts
• Emulation scripts and startup scripts
• Emulation import scripts

In the future, I might try to reimplement for example, the pre- and post-launch scripts by making it run Bash scripts, but most of the mentioned features will not be fixed.

Known issues

General

Random Wine windows pop-up

There are many reasons why this might happen, such as:

• you're running Playnite using Proton/ProtonGE

Don't use Proton/ProtonGE for running Playnite. Use regular Wine instead.

• missing script permissions

It's possible that the Linux script has not been assigned proper permissions. Use the following commands to assign them manually.

# Checks the execution permissions for the script
ls -al <wine_prefix_path>/drive_c/users/<user>/AppData/Roaming/Playnite/Extensions/Yalgrin_WineBridgePlugin/Resources/run-in-linux.sh
ls -al <wine_prefix_path>/drive_c/users/<user>/AppData/Roaming/Playnite/Extensions/Yalgrin_WineBridgePlugin/Resources/open-file-picker.sh

# Sets the execution permissions for the script
chmod a+x <wine_prefix_path>/drive_c/users/<user>/AppData/Roaming/Playnite/Extensions/Yalgrin_WineBridgePlugin/Resources/run-in-linux.sh
chmod a+x <wine_prefix_path>/drive_c/users/<user>/AppData/Roaming/Playnite/Extensions/Yalgrin_WineBridgePlugin/Resources/open-file-picker.sh

The game launches from the terminal, but the same command doesn't work from Playnite (emulator/play action/tool)

Might be an issue caused by running Wayland on your main system. Try adding the following environment variable to the specific command:

XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland

So for example, RPCS3 emulator command would look like this:

XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland /home/user/Downloads/rpcs3-v0.0.39-18708-3e49c32c_linux64.AppImage

Custom play actions

The game launches but Playnite treats it as if it was closed immediately

This is most likely caused by invalid tracking expression. Launch the game and manually find it using ps -aux | grep "<search term>" command. If it returns nothing, then you will need to adjust the tracking expression.

The game launched but it is stuck on the "Playing" state after shutdown

This is most likely caused by invalid tracking expression. Launch the game and manually find it using ps -aux | grep "<search term>" command. If it returns anything other than the game process, then you will need to adjust the tracking expression.