• Jagex Launcher ¹⁾
• Old School RuneScape ²⁾ (for RuneScape/RS3, see these notes instead)
• C++ Client

• This allows running the Jagex Launcher and the C++ OSRS clients through wine
• Jagex Launcher can be closed after pressing Play and the OSRS client window appears ³⁾

• 2025/08/30: WIP

• Installation Video

• openSUSE Tumbleweed (GNOME) ⁴⁾
• Wine

• On the first OSRS client launch, it may start an invisible game window; Close osclient.exe and re-launch it from Jagex Launcher ⁵⁾
• When first launching OSRS after installation, at the lobby before pressing Play Now, allow OSRS to download its full data cache ⁶⁾

• Jagex Launcher sometimes has issues with being interacted with from GNOME tray with the AppIndicator/KStatusNotifierItem support for GNOME Shell extension ⁷⁾
• 2024/04: The Jagex Launcher tray icon was fine on Xfce and KDE Plasma 6, so presumably this only applies to GNOME

gnome-extensions disable 'appindicatorsupport@rgcjonas.gmail.com'

gnome-extensions disable 'ubuntu-appindicators@ubuntu.com'

mkdir -p ~/'.wine' && WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape' WINEARCH='win64' wineboot && WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape' winetricks 'discord_game_sdk=disabled' && sync

• You'll need to supply Jagex Launcher files as the installer doesn't work ⁸⁾
• See Jagex Launcher Installer notes for installer testing

• Google Drive link to a clean Jagex Launcher folder with SHA256
• Use this if at all unsure

sha256sum ~/'Downloads/20240509-Jagex-Launcher.zip' | grep 'bc143b9cafbf6d735193d64e486be5015d4a4e857c61329e1a49f7143987789d' > '/dev/null' && unzip -b -o -qq ~/'Downloads/20240509-Jagex-Launcher.zip' -d ~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape/drive_c/Program Files' && sync

• Expects something like ~/Downloads/20240211-Jagex-Launcher.zip with any date
• The top-level of the archive should be the Jagex Launcher folder ⁹⁾

unzip -b -o -qq ~/'Downloads/'*'Jagex'*'Launcher.zip' -d ~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape/drive_c/Program Files' && sync

gio open ~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape/drive_c/Program Files'

• Update launcher if prompted, log-in, select OSRS → New Official Client ¹⁰⁾ → Install

mkdir -p ~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape/dxvk_shader_cache' && cd ~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape/drive_c/Program Files/Jagex Launcher' && MESA_SHADER_CACHE_DIR=~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape' DXVK_STATE_CACHE_PATH=~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape/dxvk_shader_cache' WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape' wine ~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape/drive_c/Program Files/Jagex Launcher/JagexLauncher.exe' --disable-gpu --disable-software-rasterizer

rm -f ~/'Downloads/Jagex Launcher Installer.exe' ~/'Downloads/'*'Jagex Launcher.zip' && cd ~ && sync

mkdir -p ~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape/drive_c/users/'$USER'/AppData/Local/Jagex/Old School Runescape' && ee ~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape/drive_c/users/'$USER'/AppData/Local/Jagex/Old School Runescape/preferences_client.dat'

rm ~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape/drive_c/users/'$USER'/AppData/Local/Jagex/Old School Runescape/preferences_client.dat' && ee ~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape/drive_c/users/'$USER'/AppData/Local/Jagex/Old School Runescape/preferences_client.dat'

AFKTimeout 25
AnisotropyExponent 0
AntiAliasingSampleLevel 2
BackgroundFpsLimit 15
Brightness 55
DisplayBuildInfo 0
DisplayFps 0
DrawDistance 90
ForceDisableRSeven 1
FpsLimit 0
Fullscreen 0
HideUserName 0
IsSfx8Bit 0
LastWorldId 393
MasterVolume 100
TermsAndPrivacy -1
MasterVolume 100
TitleVolume 100
UIQuality 0
WindowHeight 671
WindowMode 2
WindowTopmost 0
WindowWidth 1089

• TODO: Kill and Cache clean-up is behind bash -c and presumably don't need CHANGEMEs; can be modernized like Exec

rm -f ~/'.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/OSClient.desktop' && mkdir -p ~/'.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/Jagex' && ln --symbolic --force '/dev/null' ~/'.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/OSClient.desktop' && nano ~/'.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/Jagex/Old School RuneScape.desktop' && sed -i 's/'CHANGEME'/'$USER'/g' ~/'.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/Jagex/Old School RuneScape.desktop'

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Old School RuneScape
Categories=Game;AdventureGame;RolePlaying
Exec='/bin/bash' -c "cd ~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape/drive_c/Program Files/Jagex Launcher' && PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC='400' MESA_SHADER_CACHE_DIR=~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape' MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE='zink' MESA_VK_WSI_PRESENT_MODE='immediate' WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape' wine ~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape/drive_c/Program Files/Jagex Launcher/JagexLauncher.exe' --disable-gpu --disable-software-rasterizer"

Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Icon=D0C9_osclient.0
StartupWMClass=osclient.exe
Actions=OpenGL;Cache;Kill;Notes;

[Desktop Action OpenGL]
Exec='/bin/bash' -c "cd ~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape/drive_c/Program Files/Jagex Launcher' && PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC='400' MESA_SHADER_CACHE_DIR=~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape' vblank_mode='3' mesa_glthread='true' MESA_NO_ERROR='1' WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape' wine ~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape/drive_c/Program Files/Jagex Launcher/JagexLauncher.exe' --disable-gpu --disable-software-rasterizer"
Name=Launch without Zink

[Desktop Action Cache]
StartupNotify=false
Exec='/bin/bash' -c "rm -Rf '/home/CHANGEME/.wine/Old School RuneScape/drive_c/users/CHANGEME/AppData/Local/Jagex/Old School Runescape/'* '/home/CHANGEME/.wine/Old School RuneScape/drive_c/'*'.log' '/home/CHANGEME/.wine/Old School RuneScape/drive_c/Program Files/Jagex Launcher/JagexLauncher.dxvk-cache' '/home/CHANGEME/.wine/Old School RuneScape/drive_c/Program Files/Jagex Launcher/Games/Old School RuneScape/Client/osclient.dxvk-cache' '/home/CHANGEME/.wine/Old School RuneScape/drive_c/users/CHANGEME/AppData/Local/Jagex Launcher/logs/'* '/home/CHANGEME/.wine/Old School RuneScape/mesa_shader_cache'* && sync && notify-send 'The Old School RuneScape cache has been cleaned.'"
Name=Cache Cleanup

[Desktop Action Kill]
Exec='/bin/bash' -c "WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape' wineserver --kill"
Name=Force-close

[Desktop Action Notes]
StartupNotify=false
Exec='/bin/bash' -c "gio open 'https://wiki.realmofespionage.xyz/games:wine:old_school_runescape_jagex_launcher_c'"
Name=Installation Notes

# End

• Requires wrestool

mkdir -p ~/'.local/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps' && cd ~/'.local/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps' && wrestool --output='D0C9_osclient.0.png' --extract --type='14' ~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape/drive_c/Program Files/Jagex Launcher/Games/Old School RuneScape/Client/osclient.exe' && cd ~

WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape' wine64 winecfg

WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape' winetricks

WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape' wine64 regedit

WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape' wineserver --kill

• TODO: OSRS can technically be launched directly and accept username/password logins; separate Jagex Launcher methods and add a direct OSRS one

cd ~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape/drive_c/Program Files/Jagex Launcher' && vblank_mode='3' WINEPREFIX=~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape' wine ~/'.wine/Old School RuneScape/drive_c/Program Files/Jagex Launcher/JagexLauncher.exe' --disable-gpu --disable-software-rasterizer --single-process --silent --launch='osrs'