6mo ago

Anyone who got The Chronicles of Spellborn to run?

I got it installed through the old installer, the new one refused to install Edge WebView and consequently crashed when I tried to ignore that part. However, the game itself, while starting, does not render correctly, as seen

Tried to run it through Wine-GE as well as Proton but both with the same result.

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You need to be VERY specific about versions. Not just "old" or "new", and then give context to where and how you're installing things.
When you're asking for help, try to maximize the context and details so people aren't as lost as you.
- There are only two launchers to choose from, so I'm not sure how much more specific you want me to be? lol
  And I obviously installed them through Lutris & WINE in their standard folders. Not sure how else I'm supposed to do it.
  When you're trying to help, try to actually know something about the topic so you aren't just giving empty advice.
  
  It was not obvious that you used Lutris at all from the prior context given. There's about a half dozen active tools people use to install Windows games via Wine, including directly in Wine itself.
You probably want to get the new installer working. Try installing Edge WebView via Protontricks before running the installer.
My guess is that the older version of the game is using a really old version of direct X or OpenGL that your drivers aren't handling well. The newer version, being updated for Windows 10/11, should work just fine by contrast.
What distro do you use? What Desktop environment? X11 or Wayland? What's your GPU? Which drivers do you use for it?
- You probably want to get the new installer working. Try installing Edge WebView via Protontricks before running the installer.
  Protontricks is for Proton games. And without installing the game / launcher I would not have a prefix to install this to anyway?
  My guess is that the older version of the game is using a really old version of direct X or OpenGL that your drivers aren't handling well. The newer version, being updated for Windows 10/11, should work just fine by contrast.
  I think you're confused. The game does not differentiate between the two launchers. It's the same game regardless of which launcher you choose. Launchers are merely for downloading & updating games. I don't know whether it uses DirectX or OpenGL but I know it uses Unreal Engine 2.5.
  What distro do you use? What Desktop environment? X11 or Wayland? What's your GPU? Which drivers do you use for it?
  Bazzite, KDE, Wayland, 6650 XT, Kernel version 6.11.
  
  Protontricks is for Proton games. And without installing the game / launcher I would not have a prefix to install this to anyway?
  You can install stuff onto a prefix before installing a game, but fair point about it being for Proton, you'd want winetricks instead, which Protontricks wraps. I do think Lutris lets you setup dependencies before running the installer on your prefix for a new game, but you might have to write a script to do it the way I was thinking.
  Bazzite, KDE, Wayland, 6650 XT, Kernel version 6.11.
  I assume you're using the Mesa drivers then. Maybe try the AMD proprietary drivers to see if they're more compatible with this particular game? Couldn't hurt besides being a bit of a pain to setup.

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