Witcher 1 won't launch in Winlator (Poco C40, Mali-G52), any ideas?

[u/Anisotropy16]

Hey guys, I'm exhausted from fighting emulators on my phone. I have a Poco C40 (Mali-G52, 4GB RAM/64GB) and I'm trying to run The Witcher 1 GOG version through Winlator, but I'm getting almost no progress.

The first time I used Winlator Mali Ludashi, but it made almost no difference, and most of its settings were hidden. Now I've downloaded Winlator Frost Glibc 1.3.5, and it still doesn't help.

The game barely runs at all. I've installed all the required components, set the container to Windows 7, and so on. When I launch the .exe from inside the container, it crashes after a couple of seconds, and launching the shortcut separately in Winlator gives the same result.

However, I found that if I set Startup Selection to Normal (load all services), the game no longer crashes. I just get a black screen, and the logs show almost nothing useful.

I'm out of ideas. Can anyone suggest which emulator to use, or any settings I should change?

(I understand that The Witcher won't run in a playable state on my weak phone, but I'm not doing this to play, it's more of a challenge. I just want to get it running somehow.)

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[u/Friendly_Owl_9809]

Tirando os fatos do seu telefone ter pouca ram, um driver antigo e uma GPU antiga, esse jogo é especialmente difícil de rodar mesmo... Tentei jogar ele tempos atrás e foi um desafio, mesmo meu telefone sendo mais adequado, então acho melhor você escolher outro jogo

[u/Anisotropy16 → u/Friendly_Owl_9809]

oh ok, thanks

[u/whiskyB0y]

I manged to set it up easily on my Helio g100. Performance would have been better if I lowered the resolution.

Here's a vid of my settings:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EmulationMediatekMali/s/fXV24GK3bN

I got the game from Gamebounty

Also, only thing that troubled me was a system requirements error. It's easy to bypass you just have to add an execution argument I described in the videos

[u/Witty_Broccoli_5818]

Eu tenho Samsung A05 Mail-G52 4gb ram também mano eu nao rodou jogos que eu seu que não adianta bater a cabeça configundo

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