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Created a faster fix fot the after dream crash, instead of renaming manually the wmv's each install. Download here: https://github.com/silentgameplays/Arcania-Linux-Crash-Fix
Faces are not displayed properly unless using the legacy beta version
Game crashes after the first dream sequence King Robar gighting skeletons and dialogue with Ivy.
Here you go, Arcania Fix: Arcania Linux Crash Fix
Install Arcania
(The easy way) Download this fix by using the green Code then Download Zip buttton: https://github.com/silentgameplays/Arcania-Linux-Crash-Fix
Extract 2 wmv files
Paste the 2 files shine_glowing.wmv shine_turning.wmv into /home/username/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/ArcaniA/Data/Video
- (The hard way)
Go into /home/username/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/ArcaniA/Data/Video
Select any wmv like B_Boar.wmv
Copy paste B_Boar.wmv somewhre twice like B_Boar1.wmv and B_Boar2.wmv
Rename both copy/pasted files into shine_glowing.wmv shine_turning.wmv
- For the weird faces glitch just go into Steam>Properties>Beta select legacy
NB! If you already copy/pasted the fix files prior to switching to beta>legacy , copy/paste them again or the game will crash.
Proton version 9.04.
The game crash is blocking and therefor I can not recommend it currently.
Faces had artifacts
After playing the intro scene, where you control the king, it crashes after the first dialogue you have with Ivy.
Proton Experimental
Set Video to 1280x720 and turned quality down to Medium
Minor graphical odities with facial colors, and water puddles during rain
DO NOT USE THE L1 trigger, it will freeze the game, and can not be used while palying
after following the advice of the other posters and create the shine_glowing.wmv the game worked fine, but several hours into the game there is a mission for a Witch that is required and at the end of that misison you fight a HUGE beatle. once you defeat the beatle the game freezes for a moment then the screen goes to a TV Like Braudcast warning screen then it jumps to 2 normal loading screens, and loads you into a new section of the game a couple hours ahead of where you actually were in the game, skipping some key parts of the game and now you are on a new island after the first island and talking with a known character with your new mission and objectives. the game seems to play fine after this but i am only an hour into this new section. I have tried multiple times to play the prior dungeon without this crash but it always does what i wrote above and plants you at the new beach.
If you have the "Detailed Faces" option enabled in the Video settings then a lot of characters faces will appear green and transparent, disabling this setting fixed the artifacts.
The game will crash after the initial dream sequence due to missing wmv files, this can be fixed by making a copy of one of the wmv files located in "steamapps/common/ArcaniA/Data/Video" and naming the copies to "shine_glowing.wmv" and "shine_turning.wmv", the game will no longer crash after the dream sequence.
Without using a custom version of Proton the only cutscene that works is the intro but even then the audio is in German for some reason, any other cutscene just displays as rainbow static making for moments where players wouldn't understand the context of what just happened.
I launched the game in proton experimental and I did the same thing as user Tim Co©K dit (thanks, by the way) and I'll just copy and paste his procedure and call it a day, because that's the only things I've to do to make the game works on Deck (with minor visual glitches, face transparency for exemple) :
Game crashes because of missing file "shine_glowing.wmv". This file is being user for UI modal. So to fix it:
You need to go in desktop mode on your Deck, then go to Dolphin > Steamapps > Common > Arcania :
1- Go to folder "Data/Video" 2- Make a copy of a small file like "B_ShadowBeast.wmv" to "B_ShadowBeast (Copy).wmv" 3- Rename the "B_ShadowBeast (Copy).wmv" to "shine_glowing.wmv" 4- Play game
And then, you can enjoy the worst Gothic game, which is still a fine game that deserve a try.
TDP to 10 and 40 HZ
Intro is in german
Crashes after the first dialog
Doesn't work
The game runs perfectly. I saved and loaded a game. I got past the point where it used to crash while talking to the first NPC.
With Proton Experimental the game plays every animation, but the story animation runs in German, and the game still crashes while talking to the first NPC. GE-Proton8-9 is the first version I tested successfully. I haven't tried the others yet.
Game crashes because of missing file "shine_glowing.wmv". This file is being user for UI modal. So to fix it:
- Right click "Arcania" and select "Properties..."
- Go to tab "Installed Files"
- Click button "Browse..."
- Go to folder "Data/Video"
- Make a copy of a small file like "B_ShadowBeast.wmv" to "B_ShadowBeast (Copy).wmv"
- Rename the "B_ShadowBeast (Copy).wmv" to "shine_glowing.wmv"
- Play game
Some faces are sometime see through for some items.
You have to just fix the crashes. If you fix it and unsee some gaphical gliches the game plays fine.
Game crashes because there is a missing file "shine_glowing.wmv". This file is being called everytime there is a UI modal. To fix it just add the missing file. Since the file is not on the installed folder just take another .wmv file and copy it. Then rename it to the missing file.
How to fix:
- Righ click on game and select "Properties..."
- Go to tab "Installed files"
- Click on button "Browse"
- Go to folder "Data\Video"
- Take a file and copy it. I took the file "B_ShadowBeast.wmv" and made a copy.
- Rename copy from "B_ShadowBeast (copy).wmv" to "shine_glowing.wmv" (took this file since it is the smalles size)
- Profit
Game crashes when you get to modals because of a missin wmv file.
Use attached saves to bypas the crash after the intro https://cutt.ly/AwuyND7C
Game crashes after the intro. Use attached saves https://cutt.ly/AwuyND7C
Game will crash upon completing the intro. Use the saves https://cutt.ly/AwuyND7C
Launches for a fraction of a second and then closes
No matter what proton version I tried, with or without gamescope, it flashes a black window for a fraction of a second and then closes.
Mapped to the right controls
It ALWAYS crashes right after the first conversation
Without GE-Proton some videos are missing (not all)
/steam/steamapps/common/Arcania Gothic 4/Data/configuration/ProcessManager.xml I changed the corecount to 4 then 6. That seemed to have no effect.
The game crashes every time after completing the dream part, just as you finish conversation with the first npc.
The corecount edit fixed Gothic 3 Forsaken Gods for me which ran slow unti then, it seems to have no effect on Arcania 'though. The game runs fine with Proton experimental, and Proton 7.0-2 ,while it skips some videos, the ones it plays have sound. With Proton GE custom the game plays videos with no sound, and it crashes instantly as you start a new game.
it crashes after playing the intro
A very reproducible crash, when the game really begins, just after having played the intro.
getting there, but not yet playable
This game is runnning fine.
This game is missing videos.
This used to crash but now just has missing videos.
winetricks wmp11 xact physx
only 3 Crashes in about 20 Hours
i installed with Proton 5.0.10 and winetricks xact wmp11 physx in my WINEPREFIX. Perfectly Worked on my NVIDIA Card, not with AMD. Strange thing
Works out of the box since Proton 7.0
Since Proton 7.0 the game works out of the box. Only the intro videos do not work yet.
6.21-GE-2 GloriousEggroll
First use proton 5.0 with a clean prefix
protontricks 39690 wmp11
And start with Proton 6.3-8 or GE or Experimental
Some water textures are blinking, and shadows cast on characters are glitchy (green-ish shade)
As suggested by another user, I used
protontricks 39690 xact_x64 wmp11 physx
in a terminal to install missing libraries, otherwise the game would not even start (tried this with several Proton version, including Experimental)
Some NPC lines are cut in the middle, but they are not important to the story. Besides, I don't know if it happens on the windows version as well.
Some water textures are blinking, and shadows cast on characters are glitchy (green-ish shade)
Does not launch, many solutions attempted. (AMDGPU)
For NVIDIA users that want to get this to load, I suggest using proton5.0-10 and nothing above as wmp11 and xact will not install their dll's correctly otherwise.
As for AMD users, even when doing this the issue remains, I've tried several proton versions and ge to no avail, proton logs are not particularly helpful for this game.
still not working, wmp error
I installed it and ran protontricks 39690 xact_x64 wmp11 physx Also fixed all the errors so it really installed. But ArcaniA still complains about a missing WMVCore.dll -- I tried to install it manually for 32bit, where it was missing, but the failed at the dependency WMASF.dll which could not be loaded.
The protonfix is not working for me that is mentioned What I got in terminal can be found below.
Can confirm, it works after installing:
$ protontricks 39690 xact_x64 wmp11 physx
The games needs some dependencies to run, to play just install "xact_x64" "wmp11" and "physx" through winetricks: WINEPREFIX=~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/39690/pfx/ winetricks
Still borked
Doesn't work on Proton 5.0-1
Borked
Only a black screen and nothing happens. Tested as well with D9VK, but didn't help, probably a Wine bug.
Only a black screen and nothing happens. Tested as well with D9VK, but didn't help, probably a Wine bug.
Only a black screen and nothing happens. Tested as well with D9VK, but didn't help, probably a Wine bug.
Black window.
UnknownOnly a black screen and nothing happens. Tested as well with D9VK, but didn't help, probably a Wine bug.
Unknown
Black screen window. Nothing happens.
UnknownOnly black screen and then nothing happens
Unknown
4.2.1 still shows a Black screen
Just shows a small black screen
Still just a black screen
Go to black fullscreen and nothing more happens
