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Winlator Tiny is an Android application for running Windows applications with Wine and Box86/Box64

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Winlator Tiny

Winlator Tiny

Winlator Tiny is an Android application that lets you to run Windows (x86_64) applications with Wine and Box86/Box64.

TinyPRoot is a modified and smaller version of PRoot. The aims are to keep it ARM64-only and translate paths faster on Winlator.

Installation

  1. Download and install the APK from GitHub Releases Winlator Tiny
  2. Launch the app and wait for the installation process to finish

Useful Tips

  • If you are experiencing performance issues, try changing the Box64 preset to Performance in Container Settings -> Advanced Tab.
  • For applications that use .NET Framework, try installing Wine Mono found in Start Menu -> System Tools -> Installers.
  • If some older games don't open, try adding the environment variable MESA_EXTENSION_MAX_YEAR=2003 in Container Settings -> Environment Variables.
  • Try running the games using the shortcut on the Winlator home screen, there you can define individual settings for each game.
  • To display low resolution games correctly, try to enabling the Force Fullscreen option in the shortcut settings.
  • To improve stability in games that uses Unity Engine, try changing the Box64 preset to Stability or in the shortcut settings add the exec argument -force-gfx-direct.

Information

This project has been in constant development since version 1.0, the current app source code is up to version 7.1, I do not update this repository frequently precisely to avoid unofficial releases before the official releases of Winlator.

Credits and Third-party apps

Many thanks to ptitSeb, Danylo, Max Ivan, Twaik Yont, alexvorxx and others.
Thank you to all the people who believe in this project.