0. requirements: wine, winetricks, idk i have a bunch of stuff installed

- if you find your game not working, and find a dependency just dm me and ill add it here

- im working with a clean 32bit wineprefix, you can use your existing one
1. install the exe-only build

2. in winetricks:
- 1. select your prefix

- 2. click "Install a Windows DLL or component"

- 3. select `dxvk` (start typing to search)

- 4. click `OK`

- 5. if there are any warnings poping up, just click "OK", list of warnings i got:

 - Please refer to dxvk version 2.3 release notes...

 - Please refer to current dxvk base graphics driver requirements...

- 6. close winetricks

3. run the game `wine "I Wanna Lockpick.exe"` (with default prefix)

4. (if you made a new prefix) run with `WINEPREFIX=(path) wine "I Wanna Lockpick.exe"`, winetrick makes prefixes in `$XDG_DATA_HOME/wine` (aka. `$HOME/.local/share/wine`, just search in that

These exact steps wouldn't work on macOS because macOS doesn't have Vulkan drivers.

You instead can try to use dxvk-mac, which inserts MoltenVK into the mix. Having 2 compatibility layers is provably not good for performance.

Or if you have an ARM mac, you can try to use GPTK,  but i don't know if it works for DX11 or if it's only DX12.

using this tutorial, you can probably make it run on mobile, using proot with a server linux distro (android = linux), and do the same steps

now the problem is, it uses wine, so if anyone manages to get i wanna lockpick on an android phone (possible i guess) id be very surprised

well nice tutorial tho

If this isn't working, here is what I did. Download this installer from Microsoft https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109 and run it with wine. It will exact files to a folder (You can pick the Z:\ drive to pick a folder on your local Linux machine). Then, after it extracts, you can run the installer with wine called DXSETUP. Then running the exe will work.

op's instructions managed to get it to boot, but it maxes out my cpu in any room bigger than a screen and slows to an abysmal crawl. to be fair my computer is quite old at this point, but i don't think whatever this game is doing should require that much. maybe it's trying to emulate vulcan?

update: tried lemonjacob's advice and it runs smoothly now. thanks!