Olcadan
Published
Works Fine, No Issues
Works perfectly by default, no further action required beyond downloading it and starting it
Unable to get it running despite much effort. Tried everything I know.
This game is totally non-functional on Linux. I have tried numerous tweaks and made many modifications via wine, to no avail. This is a PC port of an XNA game, and it seems like wine (and, consequently, Proton) lacks full support for XNA. Very unfortunate, this is a good game, but it does not work on Linux.
Followed instructions and used shell script from here: https://icculus.org/finger/flibitijibibo?date=2019-07-31&time=13-55-03
https://icculus.org/finger/flibitijibibo?date=2019-07-31&time=13-55-03
Download the Linux version and the password-protected zip file from that link, get the md5sum of ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Cthulhu\ Saves\ The\ World/Content/Movies/CSTW_intro2.wmv to use as the password for the protected zip file, extract and merge the 'Content' directory in the protected zip file to ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Cthulhu\ Saves\ The\ World/, copy the shell script called 'CSTW' from the other zip file you downloaded to ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Cthulhu\ Saves\ The\ World/, and set the launch options to ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Cthulhu\ Saves\ the\ World/CSTW &command%. It should work fine after that.
Native Launcher Crashed My XSession, but it Works Fine with Proton
Tried the native version first, but it crashed. I installed the Windows version and configured it to use Proton 4.11, and it worked great, no problems whatsoever.
Installed corefonts
By default, the game did not have a font set, so all text appeared as blank boxes in-game. I tried installing corefonts via winetricks to fix this, but it did not work. What fixed it was editing the file ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Murasaki/Murasaki/mu.ini and setting a font name in the "font=" field. Any font installed in your wineprefix should work (I used Arial).
Ran game with "-safe" launch option.
No audio without running with the "-safe" launch option.
Graphics are very low quality, and look poorly stretched. Game looks slightly better in windowed mode, but there is still noticeable degradation in the visuals when compared to the Windows version.
To enable the safe mode launch option, go to the game in your library, click on settings (gear icon), and select "properties". Click the "Launch Options" button and input "-safe" (no quotes). Then launch the game again, and choose the second option ("Launch Princess Remedy in A World of Hurt in Safe Mode"). This should fix the audio issues.
It ran fine without any configuration on my part. Not listed as supporting Linux but ran great for me on Mint.
Some fairly minor issues, but works well and is totally playable.
Text is poorly rendered/looks artifacted in NPC dialog and item descriptions
Game will crash on Alt+Tab
Changing graphics settings will often cause the game to crash. Restarting and loading up the previous save will have the new graphics settings enabled, though.
Choose the second option from the Steam launch popup window, other options will cause frequent graphics problems. I tested with single-player only, not multiplayer.
