CrewChief on Linux

#Tutorial Date: 21/05/2025

Follow everything stricly, otherwise wont work. Read every line of this guide.
Nothing needs to be run as root, never.
Best way ATM seems to be install per game.

Preparation:
Download Crewchief.msi
Install wine, winetricks and protontricks on your distro!

Info:
It's always better to isolate the installations, beeter for housekeping, so we will place Crewchied in ~/crewchief_wine_prefix,
this will be reused by all games. Personalizations are done per game, on the game vessel that steam alocates.
To have a full restart you can always fully remove ~/crewchief_wine_prefix and retry.

1. Installig CrewChief dependencies, ignore mono related popups if they appear, first dotnet48:
WINEPREFIX=~/crewchief_wine_prefix winetricks -q dotnet48

2. Second Crewchief, launch Crewchief installer and install it normally, in the end Mark the option to "Launch Crewchief" after install.
WINEPREFIX=~/crewchief_wine_prefix wine Downloads/CrewChiefV4.msi

4. With Crewchief open, do nothing, do not press "Start Crew Chief", just click on the 3 "Sound Pack Status" so the all the
updated soudpacks are installed. Crewchief will ask to restart a few times which you can do untill all sound packs
are up to date. Its a lot of restarts, like more than 20.

3. Launching into game vessel:
protontricks-launch ~/crewchief_wine_prefix/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Britton\ IT\ Ltd/CrewChiefV4/CrewChiefV4.exe
In the window that opens, select your game.

Click "Start Crew Chief", if a popup appears saying the game needs a plugin press ok, so it gets installed.
If the popup does not appear, maybe its a good idea to clean the plugin directory of your game, so CrewChief can install
the version it provides. On this vessel the audio pack is outdated again and it wont let update, quite annoying. 

A workaroud is to copy the ones we updated above. todo so, get your game ID with the command: 
grep name ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/appmanifest_*

So in my case the gameid is: 2399420
So I will copy the audio downloaded on the PREFIX where it worked to the proton vessel, with:
cp -r ~/crewchief_wine_prefix/drive_c/users/slemke/AppData/Local/CrewChiefV4/ ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/2399420/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Local>
and
cp -r ~/crewchief_wine_prefix/drive_c/users/slemke/AppData/Local/Britton_IT_Ltd ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/2399420/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Local>

Crew chief options needd, otherwise only works the first time:
-> Uncheck: "Use nAudio for playback"

Start over:
You can always delete the WINEPREFIX that the game runs in.

If you want to "clear/uninstall" a game, run the installer with protontricks-launch, select the game on the popup 
and then later select uninstall on the crewchief installed: 
Z:\home\slemke\.steam\steam\steamapps\common\Le Mans Ultimate

There is space for improvement, this guide shouls also serve to give you ideas.

its already checked, though i just did a re install, so ill see if the problem persists. What do you use instead of crew cheif ?

None, usually with good overlays I can have all the needed info, in the end, what crew chief does is transform shared memory data into voice, that same shared memory data can also be used by overlays, but things change, cannot sat say that I will not use anymore.

What overlays do you use on linux?

I usually "mount" my own on simhub, grabbing parts from other dashes, then I make it a dashboard and run an android phone that I have on the rig. Eventually I will share it somewhere as I also need to credit the authors of the bits I did take.