Affinity Suite V2 on Linux [ Wine ]

[Zode]

9 hours ago, ElementalWarrior said:

Try running with vulkan:
 

winetricks renderer=vulkan

or trying using wayland

winetricks graphics=wayland

Or some permutation of graphics/renderer (here are your options):

[james@jamestop ~]$ winetricks list-all  | grep -E "renderer|graphics"
Executing cd /sbin
graphics=default         Set graphics driver to default 
graphics=mac             Set graphics driver to Quartz (for macOS) 
graphics=wayland         Set graphics driver to Wayland 
graphics=x11             Set graphics driver to X11 
renderer=gdi             Set renderer to gdi 
renderer=gl              Set renderer to gl 
renderer=no3d            Set renderer to no3d 
renderer=vulkan          Set renderer to vulkan 

 

Seems like setting graphics to wayland (on KDE wayland) will cause affinity to straight up crash after the splash. Will work if you remove DXVK but all the tooltips, dropdowns, context menus, basically everything popup-y will get cut off by the canvas making it unusable 😅

[ElementalWarrior]

39 minutes ago, Zode said:

Seems like setting graphics to wayland (on KDE wayland) will cause affinity to straight up crash after the splash. Will work if you remove DXVK but all the tooltips, dropdowns, context menus, basically everything popup-y will get cut off by the canvas making it unusable 😅

Ah, I hadn't tried wayland in a while. It does crash on mine after opening an image. 

[JFIA]

Ok, for anyone interested (and for myself!), here's my guide for installing on Manjaro that works quite well!

It's based off of several of the other guides and notes in this thread, taking bits from each that work, trying to keep it as simple as possible. Especially followed 

• Install wine-tkg-affinity-git as your Wine package (from https://github.com/daegalus/wine-tkg-affinity/actions )
  • At the time of writing, I used https://github.com/daegalus/wine-tkg-affinity/actions/runs/14924471485, which I believe is Wine 10.6
  • After downloading, do: 

    sudo pacman -U --noconfirm wine-tkg-affinity-archbuilt.tar.zst

• Install winetricks with pacman, etc., if you haven't
• Make your prefix directory - I'm using "winefinity10.6"
  • mkdir winefinity10.6
• Change your wine prefix for ease of use, if you like:
  • export WINEPREFIX=~/winefinity10.6/
• Install all the stuff with winetricks, set the settings:
  • winetricks vcrun2022 dotnet35 dotnet48 dxvk vkd3d renderer=vulkan win11
  • (This takes a while and has a lot of prompts, so watch.)
• Copy over the WinMetadata folder:
  • Download WinMetadata
  • cp -r ~WinMetadata winefinity10.6/drive_c/windows/system32/WinMetadata/
• Install the Windows SDK (it provides a file that's missing - I'm not exactly sure what parts need to be installed, I may narrow it down later to save space)
  • see
  • https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/windows-sdk/
  • wine /home/facemyer/Downloads/winsdksetup.exe
  • I unchecked Performance Toolkit and Debugging Tools for Windows; results in about 600 MB.
• Replace the Fonts folder with a link to your own fonts folder:
  • ln -s ~/.local/share/fonts/ ~/winefinity10.6/drive_c/windows/Fonts
• Then install the app:
  • wine ~/Downloads/affinity-publisher-msi-2.6.3.exe
• Start the app:
  • wine '~/winefinity10.6/drive_c/Program Files/Affinity/Publisher 2/Publisher.exe'

Notes:

• I have not tested extensively, but from testing, there is no flashing/blacking out like I had with my previous install. Menus don't cause issues. No crashes yet.
• I did have a debugger notice when installing Photo, but it seems to work fine.

[Joy3D]

Installed it, working perfectly with this guide

https://github.com/Twig6943/AffinityOnLinux/blob/main/Guides/Lutris/Guide.md#3-copy--paste-wine-binaries

Designer & Photo apps

[Antibarbarus]

On 6/20/2025 at 4:56 PM, Zode said:

Seems like setting graphics to wayland (on KDE wayland) will cause affinity to straight up crash after the splash. Will work if you remove DXVK but all the tooltips, dropdowns, context menus, basically everything popup-y will get cut off by the canvas making it unusable 😅

AFAIK wine still defaults to xorg drivers, so on Wayland you should be running all apps through XWayland by default. Last time I tried wine’s experimental Wayland driver it wasn't working correctly with much simpler apps that Photo, so IMHO it needs more time to mature. Aside from that, I’ve been running Affinity Photo pretty much exclusively on Wayland through XWayland the whole time with minimal issues on two different machines with DXVK on.

Have you tried the 9.13 wine version? I did notice subtle differences between it and the newer wine versions with how they display graphical elements like tooltips, menus and so on. Out of all the variants I tried, the 9.13 from ElementalWarrior is still the only one that looks and works perfectly. Really the only snag is the janky window resizing which flashes sometimes, but that’s negligible since I always maximize Photo before I do anything else.

 

On 7/2/2025 at 5:19 PM, JFIA said:

 

• Install the Windows SDK (it provides a file that's missing - I'm not exactly sure what parts need to be installed, I may narrow it down later to save space)
  • see
  • https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/windows-sdk/
  • wine /home/facemyer/Downloads/winsdksetup.exe
  • I unchecked Performance Toolkit and Debugging Tools for Windows; results in about 600 MB.

This is quite interesting. My WinMetadata contains just 20 files, none of which are the specific file mentioned,a nd I never seem to have had any issues with missing files. I wonder what is making the difference?