Running Neutone FX under Linux/Wine (works!)

[ballerburg9005]

Steps to install Neutone in Wine:

1. Use 64bit Wine 8.1 or greater
2. winetricks dotnet40
3. Download Neutone FX and run installer (you should see Edge/WebView installer at end & success)
4. Try to start the installed Neutone FX.exe file (the window will probably remain black or white forever)
5. If the window remains blank for more than 1-2 minutes, rename the folder C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft/EdgeWebView/Application/XXX.XXX.XX to XXX.XXX.XX_OLD
6. Download WebView2 x64 CAB file (up to version 92 worked for me, above = broken)
7. Execute those commands to copy files from the CAB into the XXX.XXX.XX directory:

# make sure to replace those two variables
export UR_WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine64"
export UR_OLDEDGEVERSION="XXX.XXX.XX" #e.g. 130.0.2849.80 
mkdir WebView2
cd WebView2
cabextract Microsoft.WebView2.FixedVersionRuntime.*.cab
cp Microsoft.WebView2.FixedVersionRuntime.*/ $UR_WINEPREFIX/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Microsoft/EdgeWebView/Application/$UR_OLDEDGEVERSION -r

To fix the rendering issues in FL Studio, I had to check "Make Bridged" and "External Window" in "Processing" Tab in the Plugin Settings (when you press the cog wheel and then the cog + the power plug thing that pops up below). Otherwise it was really glitchy and I had to close and open the window 3-4 times for it to work. It will still produce an "access violation" error when you do this, but this will not actually crash Neutone, just produce this annoying error... when downloading new models it will also freeze when it is finished, and you have to restart it so you can use the new model. Other than that, it works really well.

Links to download CAB file:

https://github.com/westinyang/WebView2RuntimeArchive/
https://github.com/westinyang/WebView2RuntimeArchive/releases/download/89.0.774.77/Microsoft.WebView2.FixedVersionRuntime.89.0.774.77.x64.cab . Mirror: https://mega.nz/file/QLpFwbKQ#fi7X-KSau4xh_UpNrnQD1p9M60sQkso4z8kVrCfpTgQ

(Note: The video glitches are gone now with fix mentioned above.)

2024-12-01_18-07-47.out2.mp4

This command kills crashed wine programs, might be handy:
WINEKILL=; WPIDS=""; for n in $(ps aux | grep "\(\.*\.e[x]e\|"[^[:space:]]*wi[n]e[^[:space:]]*$"\)" | (cat && echo "$(ps aux | grep "\.exe" | grep defunct)") | (cat && echo "$(ps aux | grep "\.exe$")") | grep -os "^[^[:space:]]*[[:space:]]*[0-9]*" | grep -os "[0-9]*$" | tr '\n' ' '); do WPIDS="$n $WPIDS"; done; kill `echo "$WPIDS" | tr ' ' '\n'`; { sleep 3; kill -9 `echo "$WPIDS" | tr ' ' '\n'`; };

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