Continuing the discussion from Using Zbrush on Linux:
Hi all ZB on Linux folks,
I’ve installed ZBrush 2021.5 with using Lutris / wine 6.0 rc-1. It’s running good on Ubuntu Linux 20.10. It still have the Lightbox issue, but overall most functions are working fine.
Just wanted to report & share the info. Any comments and reports are welcome.
Here are the Lightbox condition as a default installation.
hope this helps and more info / report will come from anyone.
@Histone
Hi, thanks to the thread you also mentioned I got Zbrush running on Kubuntu 21.04c however two issues remains for me: decimation master does not work, as well as the stylus pressure of my cintiq.
Do you have those working?
Thanks!
Decimation master :
I used to have it, but I don’t have any issues on decimation master any more.
Compatibility of wine and ZBrush is very important to run properly.
Which version of Zbrush and wine do you use? and, what’s your PC specifications?
Currently I use:
and it works just perfect.
Decimation master hadn’t been optimized to multi-cores before, and it has updated recent version of ZBrush (2021.6.x or later as I remember).
Sometimes its performance is not good enough yet, even when run on Windows natively.
So, If you want to decimate the heavy high-poly subtools. you should not decimall all.
I recommend you to optimize the subtools one by one, by using “decimate current”.
It takes time a little bit to calculate before execute the decimate process.
Stylus pressure of cintiq:
I don’t have cintiq so I can’t answer this question.
which tablet drivers do you use?
Thank you very much for your explanation. Following your advice, I update Wine from the latest stable release to 6.14 and that was enough to magically get the stylus pressure working. That is already game changing, thank you!
Unfortunately the issue with Decimation Master remains. I start the plugin, in the System Monitor I see that the process was launched, but it is doing nothing and consumes no CPU resources.
To summarize, I am using Wine 6.14, installed via Lutris following the video guide Zbrush on Linux HOWTO on Vimeo
I am running Kubuntu 21.04, on an Intel i9 7980XE, Asus x299 TUF Mark1 motherboard, 128GB RAM.
The overall performance of ZBrush under Wine are remarkable, it is responsive and fast even in Geometry HD with more than 100 mil polys.
I just have to understand where the problem lays concerning Decimation Master.
Good news!
Have you installed the DLL libraries settings which THINKIT mentioned earlier in this thread?
Lutris can install multiple version of ZBrush (with naming each of them differently), so how about fresh install the latest Zbrush_2021.6.6_installer.exe on the latest wine environment again from the start.
I’m not guarantee that works for your environment, but that’s the procedure I did when I had a decimation master slowness issue happened.
I had a similar issue in the older version of ZBrush / decimation master ), decimating small subtools works but with large subtools, it shows just “processing…” notifications forever.
So I did fresh installation with the latest installer(not upgrader one) and the issue solved.
Here’s my Lutris, I always keep the previous versions just in case.
