# Playing on linux

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First, you have to set up Lutris itself. It'll make working with Windows games a heck of a lot easier in the long run since it handles most of the rough parts of working with Wine:

- Install [Wine](https://www.winehq.org/) and [Lutris](https://lutris.net/) on your system. Instructions vary depending on the distro, but the package names should be similar to that (possibly exactly that, actually).
- On Lutris, click the three-dot button on the top-right, go to `Preferences > Runners`, scroll down to Wine and click the rightmost button.
- Download `wine-ge-8-25`, it's basically a version of Wine with all the niceties from Steam's Proton (you'll still need the system version alongside it, though, according to the Lutris site).

**Now to set up niceRO:**

- [Download the niceRO zip file](https://download.ragnarok.gay), create a folder named `niceRO`, unzip the contents there. If you get permission issues extracting the `niceRO_client` folder for some reason (happens sometimes, zip files on linux are weird), run `chmod -R 700 niceRO_client`.
- Lutris options
  - Click the top-left plus icon.
  - Choose `Add locally installed game`.
  - Name it `niceRO` for now and choose `Wine` as the runner.
- Game options
  - Executable: `Ragnarok.exe`
  - Wine prefix: the folder you unzipped niceRO_client into (niceRO)
  - Prefix architecture: 32-bit
- Runner options
  - Wine version: `wine-ge-8-25`.
  - Enable the following:
    - DXVK
    - D3D Extras
    - Esync
    - Fsync (if available)
    - FSR
- System options
  - Disable `Disable Lutris Runtime`.
  - Enable `Prefer system libraries`.
  - Click `Save`.
- In Lutris, click on the niceRO entry, hit the arrow next to the wine glass icon, choose `Wine configuration`. On the Applications tab, go down to `Windows Version` and choose `Windows XP`. Hit OK.
- Same arrow as before, choose "Run EXE inside Wine prefix", choose "Setup.exe". Configure to your liking.

After all that, just double-click on niceRO or click on Play to start `Ragnarok.exe` and get going.