UPDATE:
I have been avoiding doing any updates to iStripper and Wine because of the issues I encountered before, but I finally decided that I needed to try to make it work before my version gets too far out of date. Today was the day.
My current working configuration:Linux distro: Ubuntu Budgie 20.04
Wine version: 6.3
iStripper version: 1.2.282
The overall experience is much the same--if you run full screen exclusively, as I do, and you don't care about sound, and/or you're moving to Linux no matter what and you want to be able to bring iStripper along even if it means reduced functionality, this is for you. Full screen scenes still run flawlessly.
- Desktop stripping: no change. Still almost good enough but too glitchy.
- Music: I haven't tested with the new configuration. Will update if I get around to that. Show sounds are now audible, but badly distorted. UI sounds are silent.
- UI graphics: much improved.
- Linux updates: of concern are updates to Wine. They seem to work with version 6.3.
- Newer versions of iStripper: I'm on the current version now.
I had previously been using Wine 5.0. I have now upgraded to 6.3, the latest stable version according to PlayOnLinux. I first did an in-place upgrade without uninstalling iStripper on one PC. This triggered a login prompt and collection rebuild from iStripper, as if I had done a new install.
As before, none of the active Web content would display, and would cause a QTWebEngine crash. This behavior began with whatever version started placing a separate "Totem" directory in the AppData folder alongside the VGHD directory. That's where the QTWebEngine files live.
Still, all of the important UI screens work: Girls Store, My Collection, Settings, Full Screen Scenes. The only thing that doesn't work that I care about is the Forum and I can get to that through a browser.
I installed iStripper 282 over my existing version with no further drama.
Next I moved to my other machine. Remembering the logon prompt from before, I went ahead and uninstalled iStripper** because I was concerned about the dreaded "too many installs" hard stop. I updated Wine to 6.2, then, while preparing to install iStripper, PlayOnLinux prompted me that "Mono," a plugin for .Net Framework support, wasn't installed.
That's new--I haven't seen that before. I assume I didn't get that warning on the first machine because I didn't do a fresh installation. In any case, I followed the instructions to download and install the plugin, then started the iStripper install again...
...and all that QTWebEngine crashing is gone. All of the active Web content screens work and the UI is very smooth now. I'm guessing Mono is the reason for that. Here is info on Mono: https://wiki.winehq.org/Mono
So, bottom line, here are the steps:
- Backup your scenes folder!
- Uninstall iStripper (if already installed) (choose NO when it asks to remove your models/shows)
- Install PlayOnLinux (if not already installed)
- In PlayOnLinux, install Wine version 6.3
- Download Mono and extract to /usr/share/Wine
- Follow previous instructions for installing iStripper, using version 282, found here:
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1Xyn1CShQU_ki8XNJi91OShJFWqtcwc0f- At beginning of install, choose "Use a different version of Wine" and make sure 6.3 is selected
- Login to iStripper and rebuild collection
**THIS DELETED MY SCENES FOLDER AND I LOST SCENES THAT I HAD NOT BACKED UP.
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