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The Battle.net ~~Launcher~~ can be installed and launched via wine, which works pretty well. To play most of its games a recent wine-staging version is recommended.

The Battle.net launcher is an application to start Blizzard games. It can be installed and launched via wine, which works pretty well. To play most of its games a recent wine-staging version is recommended.

== Setup ==

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Tested on nixos-unstable with wine-staging 5.22 and found to be working with World of Warcraft 9.0.2:

~~users.users.youruser~~.~~packages = with pkgs; [~~

{{Note|This override seems not to be prebuilt by [[Hydra]] for official [[Channel branches|channels]], therefore this will probably be built on your systems. And compiling Wine locally may take a long time (over 1 hour on my system).}}

(~~wineWowPackages.full~~.~~override {~~

~~wineRelease = "staging";~~

~~mingwSupport = true;~~

})

~~(winetricks.override {~~

~~wine = wineWowPackages.staging;~~

})

];

~~Create a 64-bit wine prefix and enable DXVK support~~.

users.users.youruser.packages = with pkgs; [

(wineWow64Packages.full.override {

wineRelease = "staging";

mingwSupport = true;

})

winetricks

];

</syntaxhighlight>

~~export WINEARCH=win64~~

Create a 64-bit wine prefix and enable DXVK support:

~~export WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.~~wine~~-battlenet~~

~~winetricks dxvk~~

~~Download the~~ <~~code~~>~~Battle~~.~~net~~-~~Setup.exe~~</~~code~~> ~~from https://www.blizzard.com/de-de/apps/battle.net/desktop and install it by executing~~

export WINEARCH=win64

export WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine-battlenet

winetricks dxvk

</syntaxhighlight>

wine64 Battle.net-Setup.exe

Download the <code>Battle.net-Setup.exe</code> from https://www.blizzard.com/apps/battle.net/desktop and install it by executing:

wine64 Battle.net-Setup.exe

</syntaxhighlight>

Follow the installation and upon completion login in with your Battle.net Id or create one.

The Launcher should now start up and allow you to install and launch games.

== Updating NixOS and the Battle.net Client ==

After updating any wine related packages the Battle.net client may throw an error on launch.

Re-run the <code>wine64 Battle.net-Setup.exe</code> inside the previous wine prefix you used to update the application and avoid this error.

== Steam ==

Alternatively, you can install Steam and then add the Battle.net installer there via '''"Add Game -> Add a Non-Steam Game..."'''. You must also go to the Properties of the added game in ''Steam'' and set ''Compatibility'' to <code>GE-Proton8-25</code> (or later version).

If you get stuck on the login screen where there are no login buttons, you must launch the Steam app with <code>"WINE_SIMULATE_WRITECOPY=1"</code> env variable. This might be just a temporary glitch. You can also add Battle.net client or even the game directly to Steam. Look for installed binaries (<code>.exe</code>) in <code>"~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/"</code>.

[[Category:Applications]]

[[Category:Gaming]]

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-The Battle.net Launcher can be installed and launched via wine, which works pretty well. To play most of its games a recent wine-staging version is recommended.
+The Battle.net launcher is an application to start Blizzard games. It can be installed and launched via wine, which works pretty well. To play most of its games a recent wine-staging version is recommended.
 == Setup ==
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 Tested on nixos-unstable with wine-staging 5.22 and found to be working with World of Warcraft 9.0.2:
-  users.users.youruser.packages = with pkgs; [
+{{Note|This override seems not to be prebuilt by [[Hydra]] for official [[Channel branches|channels]], therefore this will probably be built on your systems. And compiling Wine locally may take a long time (over 1 hour on my system).}}
-    (wineWowPackages.full.override {
-      wineRelease = "staging";
-      mingwSupport = true;
-    })
-    (winetricks.override {
-      wine = wineWowPackages.staging;
-    })
-  ];
-Create a 64-bit wine prefix and enable DXVK support.
+<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
+users.users.youruser.packages = with pkgs; [
+  (wineWow64Packages.full.override {
+    wineRelease = "staging";
+    mingwSupport = true;
+  })
+  winetricks
+];
+</syntaxhighlight>
-  export WINEARCH=win64
+Create a 64-bit wine prefix and enable DXVK support:
-  export WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine-battlenet
-  winetricks dxvk
-Download the <code>Battle.net-Setup.exe</code> from https://www.blizzard.com/de-de/apps/battle.net/desktop and install it by executing
+<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
+export WINEARCH=win64
+export WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine-battlenet
+winetricks dxvk
+</syntaxhighlight>
-  wine64 Battle.net-Setup.exe
+Download the <code>Battle.net-Setup.exe</code> from https://www.blizzard.com/apps/battle.net/desktop and install it by executing:
+<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
+wine64 Battle.net-Setup.exe
+</syntaxhighlight>
 Follow the installation and upon completion login in with your Battle.net Id or create one.
 The Launcher should now start up and allow you to install and launch games.
+== Updating NixOS and the Battle.net Client ==
+After updating any wine related packages the Battle.net client may throw an error on launch.
+Re-run the <code>wine64 Battle.net-Setup.exe</code> inside the previous wine prefix you used to update the application and avoid this error.
+== Steam ==
+Alternatively, you can install Steam and then add the Battle.net installer there via '''"Add Game -> Add a Non-Steam Game..."'''. You must also go to the Properties of the added game in ''Steam'' and set ''Compatibility'' to <code>GE-Proton8-25</code> (or later version).
+If you get stuck on the login screen where there are no login buttons, you must launch the Steam app with <code>"WINE_SIMULATE_WRITECOPY=1"</code> env variable. This might be just a temporary glitch. You can also add Battle.net client or even the game directly to Steam. Look for installed binaries (<code>.exe</code>) in <code>"~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/"</code>.
+[[Category:Applications]]
+[[Category:Gaming]]