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SOLVED Is there anyone here fluent in Lutris who can help me decipher this install script? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml
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I got Star Wars Episode I Racer from GOG on a sale for dirt cheap back around May 4th. I've been trying to get it working via Heroic ever since, particularly the multiplayer, which is fixed via mods. The Lutris script definitely does all of this super easy, but not only would I like to have it working via Heroic for the gamepad controls navigation, I'd also like to pay it forward and document these steps on the PC Gaming Wiki. Unfortunately, while I thought I could tell what this script was doing after scouring the Lutris script documentation, I haven't managed to crack it, and the Heroic install of the game complains about not having IPX installed when I boot it.

https://lutris.net/games/install/13260/view

With the Lutris install of the game and the Heroic install of the game side by side in WineCFG, I can see that that there are library overrides set for:

  • dplaysvr.exe
  • dplayx
  • dpmodemx
  • dpnet
  • dpnhpast
  • dpnhupnp
  • dpnsvr.exe
  • dpwsockx

All "(native)". For some reason they're sorted to the top of the library overrides and marked with an asterisk, and what's more, I don't see any hint of these ones in the Lutris install script, but they got set somehow, and I don't see the libraries here that are listed in the script.

There are also several ways to use the mod fix, including the DLL override and the EXE patcher. The EXE patcher just crashes and dies right away when I run it in the Wine prefix via Heroic, and I once again don't see any hint in the Lutris script that the patcher executable is being run. And if it wasn't clear up until this point, I did download the 3 files at the top of the Lutris script and extract them to the Heroic game directory.

Are there any Lutris experts here who can help me figure out what I'm missing?

UPDATE: The fix was, of course, very simple. Thanks to @bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de! The thing that prevented it from working was the wsock32 override. Just because it's not in the list of library overrides, that doesn't mean you can't just type it in yourself. I've updated the PC Gaming Wiki with instructions for any time travelers from the future.

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[โ€“] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 2 months ago

Let me go through step-by-step.

  1. Download files listed at the top. The first one is the installer from GOG.
  2. You can ignore the game section, it's just saying with what executable to start the game.
  3. The most important are the tasks.
    1. The first one just sets up the Wine prefix, that should be done automatically.
    2. install the game (you don't have to use all the same flags)
    3. Extract the conf_files to the given directory.
    4. Extract the mod to the game directory.
    5. Extract the wrapper_audio to the game directory.
    6. Install directplay with winetricks.
  4. Limit the FPS to 60.
  5. Override the wine-dlls ddraw, dinput, dsound and wsock32 to prefer native versions.

I would also go over the conf_files and see what they set. In my experience those MyLittleLutrisScripts sometimes go a bit overboard with what one "should" do.

[โ€“] Iapar@feddit.de 0 points 2 months ago

PC gaming wiki?