https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50069
Bug ID: 50069 Summary: Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice City, and San Andreas do not launch in Wayland. Product: Wine Version: 5.20 Hardware: x86-64 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org Reporter: pizzadudedotca@gmail.com Distribution: ---
All of the GTA 3 Trilogy games (Grand Theft Auto 3, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto Vice City) do not launch at all in Wayland. They only launch in X11. This is on KDE Plasma Wayland session, on Fedora 33, which should use Xwayland. I saw someone on the internet saying they have the same problem in Gnome Wayland. Wayland will eventually replace X11 so this should probably be fixed to preserve access to these old games. Also it is possible that this bug affects more than these games.
One thing to note is on X11, you have to click the mouse to get the game to launch, probably due to the fact that the intro videos don't work. Maybe Wayland doesn't like this?
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50069
--- Comment #1 from pizzadude pizzadudedotca@gmail.com --- I tested some of these games in an old version of wine (tkg-4.6) on Lutris, and they work in Wayland (except for Grand Theft Auto San Andreas). I know this isn't an official build on wine. This may be a regression though.