Battlefield 3 on Linux with Wine/Lutris/DXVK

I'd like to play Battlefield 3 on my Linux machine through Lutris.
I believe it's definitely possible. I already got BFBC2 to work with Project Rome.

ZClient works, ZLOrigin works, one of the Launchers works but launching the game does not.
When launching BF3 Singleplayer it even opens the EA Battlefield website, so I think you're doing some redirection that doesn't work right in Lutris out of the box.

Help would really be appreciated.

Launcher or run from server list on site, or same in zlorigin.

Some people already tried, but bf3 not started on wine, without reason.

Sp and mp must be runned from site/launcher, direct run from zclient/zlorigin will open battelog.

So the part is normal? Problem is that when I try to join a multiplayer server or click run game in zclient, nothing happens, no website that opens up and no window. Taskmanager shows bf3.exe being started but then it it closes after half a second.

Yes, i dont know why this happens.

I tried my native wine with virtual desktop now. No window appeared but bf3.exe would keep running, instead of closing but it says the process only uses 32 MB, so it isn't running properly.

With BF4 I get "Invalid license. Reason code = Tampered (0x000A)" but it does work on real EA App (I've successfully played it for some hours). Which DLLs are you using to inject stuff? I need to overwrite them in wine config.

I dont use dlls. Bf4 not work, i tried, but not found reason, also for me was another error, i tried on manjaro.

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I mean the game most likely uses .dll hijacking to connect to zlo instead of EA.  Project Rome uses dinput8.dll for that. So I had to add to open Wineconig for the prefix I installed it to and go to Libraries and add dinput8 (native then builtin). Otherwise it just uses wine libraries instead and no injection happens.

I made own methods, no dlls needed.

activationui.exe not working properly is definitely the cause. With EA Origin the game works. I even got punkbuster to not kick me anymore by disabling AMD FSR in Lutris setting.

Yes, but i dont know why, on win - no problems, on lin - fail without crash or reason, and as i writed in thread - only some games not work, but code same for all.

Hello friends, it's a pleasure to be part of this family!
I normally play on servers on my Windows 10, but I've always been a Linux user, lately I've been trying to play via Lutris, and soon I'll try on Bottles...
Everything goes well, until logging into ZClient, but when opening ZLOrigin, it opens and quickly closes... is there any solution? ZClient, 34 Launcher, and even the official Origin open normally, only ZLOrigin didn't open!

Never tried, zlorigin needed only to download/repair games, download on win10.

Maybe you can try toLauncher or run from server list on site

On 3/4/2024 at 7:13 PM, ZLOFENIX said:

Yes, but i dont know why, on win - no problems, on lin - fail without crash or reason, and as i writed in thread - only some games not work, but code same for all.

admin, do you have any updates on this? i have the same issue. i can play bf3 on EA servers but not on zlo. i can join a server from the browser and zloclient starts bf3.exe and then closes after a few seconds without any error.

i tried to use wine-ge, wine-proton, wine-staging, all with the same effect.

i hate to use micro$oft windows, if somebody got it to work please share how you did it.

Bf3 on wine works normally, so its something on you, what in zclient log, what in launcher log if used? Just in case - what in game folder?

zclient log:

[11:50:11] PreAuth bf3.exe OK
[11:50:11] bf3.exe
[11:50:15] PreAuth bf3.exe OK
[11:50:16] bf3.exe
[11:51:15] PreAuth bf3.exe OK
[11:51:15] bf3.exe

contents of game folder:

but after a lot of searching i found this:

i removed the license file from drive_c/ProgramData/Electronic Arts/EA Services/License

and then i removed all old logs in drive_c/ProgramData/EA Logs

i joined one server from browser server list and then i see a new log

[08:37:14]------------ Opening Log --------------
[08:37:15]License Failure 3
[08:37:16]Missing DLL WINMM.dlldGetUserNameA   Error: 0x000003e6
[08:37:16]------------ Closing Log --------------
 

Log and files looks normal, missing dll - its something about wine problem.