Issues with Running Mac Proxy on Wine version of Noita (Steam)

[VaneeshaS]

Hello!

I was recently gifted Noita and have been trying to set up Entangled Worlds - however, I am currently on a Mac, and as such, I can only run Noita through Wine (Merlot). My current setup runs via a Windows version of Steam on Wine + the noita.exe file - however, I have been unable to start Noita through the proxy. Changes I have made include:

• Having the Mac version of Steam open so the Steam connection is initialized
• Changing the launch command as specified in the "launch command not found" error
• Changing the terminal command to launch the proxy based on where my proxy and noita.exe were located (~/Downloads/noita-proxy-macos/noita_proxy --launch-cmd '"/Users/{User}/Applications/Noita.app/Contents/MacOS/wineskinlauncher" --run "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Noita\noita.exe"')

I am not running into any errors on proxy_log (though the last line is always INFO noita_proxy: Starting the game now). However, I did notice an error from the Noita log that dates to more than a year ago (for reference, I received the game two months ago):

Noita (Jan 25 2025) - 20260411-142544
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DeleteFileImp(C:\users\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Nolla_Games_Noita\save00\stats\_stats.xml) file failed - error code: 2

I wanted to ask if using Steam + Wine was possible and if there was any way to fix this error, or if GOG will have to be used. I would greatly appreciate any help you can provide! Thank you for your time.

[kmnx]

I've managed to get it running on macOS with the Steam version, but differently.

The main thing is to find the exact command used to run wine + steam or wine + noita. I couldn't get "Merlot" to work, but the command used by Merlot seems to be something like

"/System/Volumes/Data/Users/c/wine-11.6_1/Wine Staging.app/Contents/Resources/wine/bin/wine" "/Users/c/.wine-steam-11/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steam.exe"

I found that command by editing /Applications/Merlot Apps/Steam (Merlot).app/Contents/Resources/run.command and adding echo ${steam_cmd[@]} in the line above
nohup "${steam_cmd[@]}" </dev/null >>"${MERLOT_STEAM_LOG}" 2>&1 & disown echo "Steam is running in the background (PID $!). Safe to close this Terminal window."
And then double clicking "Merlot (Steam". Unfortunately on my mac I only get a black steam login screen and don't have the patience to debuf this further.

I'm using CrossOver 26. To get it running with noita_proxy I copied the command used by CrossOver to start Steam from the CrossOver logs:

• Right Click on Steam in Crossover, "Run with Options", read the log file it creates. Somewhere near the start is something like:

Command: /Applications/CrossOver.app/Contents/SharedSupport/CrossOver/bin/wineloader /Applications/CrossOver.app/Contents/SharedSupport/CrossOver/lib/wine/x86_64-windows/winewrapper.exe --new-console --workdir /Users/c/Library/Application Support/CrossOver/Bottles/Steam/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Steam --start -- /Users/c/Library/Application Support/CrossOver/Bottles/Steam/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steam.exe

Try running this command from the terminal, with added quotes for the paths with spaces in them:

/Applications/CrossOver.app/Contents/SharedSupport/CrossOver/bin/wineloader /Applications/CrossOver.app/Contents/SharedSupport/CrossOver/lib/wine/x86_64-windows/winewrapper.exe --new-console --workdir "/Users/c/Library/Application Support/CrossOver/Bottles/Steam/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Steam" --start -- "/Users/c/Library/Application Support/CrossOver/Bottles/Steam/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steam.exe"

If that works, use that command, put single quotes around it, and plug it into the noita_proxy start command:

/Applications/noita-proxy-macos/noita_proxy --launch-cmd '/Applications/CrossOver.app/Contents/SharedSupport/CrossOver/bin/wineloader /Applications/CrossOver.app/Contents/SharedSupport/CrossOver/lib/wine/x86_64-windows/winewrapper.exe --new-console --workdir "/Users/c/Library/Application Support/CrossOver/Bottles/Steam/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Steam" --start -- "/Users/c/Library/Application Support/CrossOver/Bottles/Steam/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steam.exe"'

This way I managed to run noita-proxy, click "Create Server", then launch Noita in Steam, and noita-proxy detecs the running instance. Steam integration in noita-proxy isn't working but it worked through direct IP connection to play with a friend who's also on macOS.

[Random-Scientist]

I'd recommend using Sikarugir aka wineskin winery. Last i checked with it everything works fine, you just need to launch noita separately.