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I installed Spitfire Audio on Ubuntu 22.04 (using Wine) but all I have is a black window. If I play around with resizing it and moving it around, I can get misplaced/suplicated text (but a lot is missing). Another user got this same blank screen on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxaudio/comments/zs7gys/spitfire_audio_labs_broke_after_latest_update/ [Note 1]. This is my first time installing Spitfire Audio, so the "solution" to the post I linked won't work for me.

After looking into things a bit more, and given the errors I was receiving (some had to do with Vulkan), I realised that I may need to install DXVK. There are so many different sets of instructions out there, and I can't seem to get any to work.

I tried sudo apt-get install dxvk, I tried downloading it from Github, I tried to follow instructions online, but I am a noob and can't make heads or tails of it (it doesn't help that there are many different and varying instructions (I have to install it and set it up to work in Wine).

There used to be a shellscript to make it easier, but that is no longer a part of DXVK.

Any help would be appreciated (the main problem is getting Spitfire Audio to work, so I could be wrong about DXVK). If need be, I can add screenshots of the errors I got (I am pretty sure I took screenshots) and I can show you what Spitfire Audio looks like (it shouldn't look like this).

1: Sorry, I don't know how to insert inline links and the Markdown help page on Stackexchange is no help at all. I can only get reference-style links and bare URLs to work.

Francophone
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I got Spitfire Audio working again in PlayOLinux.

I went to PlayOnLinux Configuration, under install components, i selected the DXVK_2_00-Package and pressed install.

So it runs normally as before.

*I hope it helps in anyway

Thank you and thanks for you investigation.

Paul
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  • You're welcome. I'm not familiar with PlayOnLinux. Its name sounds like it is more orientated torwards games. I just looked it up though, and it uses Wine. I will look into it. – Francophone Jan 03 '23 at 23:58
  • @Paul, thank you **so much!** I've been trying to get this working again (also in PlayOnLinux) for the past several days; I can confirm that this solved this issue for me, as well! (In case it's useful for anyone else reading here in the future, I had also installed "Microsoft Core Fonts", "tahoma" and "tahoma2" via the "install components" tab in PlayOnLinux -- doing so seemed to fix another, possibly unrelated error in the logs, but your solution above is what got everything actually working again!) – J L Jan 04 '23 at 02:40
  • Thanks Paul, Playonlinux worked great. – Francophone Jan 04 '23 at 10:54
  • I will add, though, that PlayOnLinux crashes a lot at first when trying to download. Don't try to download too much at once, or it will crash again. I downloaded most of LABs and it crashed, I tried to choose the install via HDD option, but it is buggy (check your hard drive first before redownloading). I have still marked your answer as the correct one, though, Paul. – Francophone Jan 04 '23 at 16:25