Dungeon Keeper 1 "launches" but fails to load after menu selection?

Trying to run this on a Steam Deck in desktop mode. Launching the game generates a popup selection menu to choose from the core game, DLC, audio settings, and language settings.

Choosing to launch the game or its DLC closes the menu and starts something DOS4GW which closes the entire dosbox within a second or two. I have tried proton and proton-experimental with both results failing.

The only game I've tried from GOG via Heroic on my deck before this is "Fallout Classic" and it works fine so it's a setting on my end that I likely don't understand.

Log is attached as per the FAQ

1207658934-lastPlay.log2.14KB

CommandMC•1/10/23, 12:11 AM

When it comes to troubleshooting, you can either:

Setup Wine-GE (download from the Wine Manager, set it as the wine version in the game settings, delete your Wineprefix), then re-run the game and re-send the log
Add the PROTON_LOGPROTON_LOG environment variable, also in the game settings (name PROTON_LOGPROTON_LOG, value
```
1
```
```
1
```
), try to launch the game again, then send in the steam-heroic-Dungeon Keeper Gold.logsteam-heroic-Dungeon Keeper Gold.log file in /home/deck/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl//home/deck/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/

Bbrilliant-lime When it comes to troubleshooting, you can either: - Setup Wine-GE (download from...

dual-salmonOP•1/10/23, 12:16 AM

How do I "delete" the Wineprefix? I just downloaded the Wine-GE-Proton7-35 and set it as the new wineprefix but didn't see a way to delete the old one?

dual-salmonOP•1/10/23, 12:17 AM

Failed the same way with the Wine-GE proton

1207658934-lastPlay.log4.07KB

CommandMC•1/10/23, 12:17 AM

Your Wineprefix is a regular folder. To delete it, you just, y'know, delete it
Wine-GE is your Wine version

WWindow Licker Failed the same way with the Wine-GE proton

CommandMC•1/10/23, 12:19 AM

Hm, this almost seems like driver issue to me, but that should be impossible

You've ran flatpak install --reinstall com.heroicgameslauncher.hglflatpak install --reinstall com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl, as per the FAQ?

dual-salmonOP•1/10/23, 12:19 AM

I did that before I posted actually as per the faq and restarted the deck just to be sure

dual-salmonOP•1/10/23, 12:20 AM

I'll delete the wineprefix folder for the game and see if that resolves anything. Thank you for your help

CommandMC•1/10/23, 12:21 AM

Deleting the prefix is not going to solve anything, it's just to keep that tidy (without getting too much into the specifics, Proton and Wine store the data in your prefix differently; having both of those formats in there might be confusing if you ever have to do any troubleshooting in the future)

Bbrilliant-lime Deleting the prefix is not going to solve anything, it's just to keep that tidy ...

dual-salmonOP•1/10/23, 12:23 AM

lol yeah I it just finished relaunching after the deletion of the folder and the crashing persists.

I saw on reddit there's been other folks having issues and there's one user who claims it just works but doesn't really explain how they get it to work so maybe this one will remain outside of my reach

CommandMC•1/10/23, 12:24 AM

There should be a goggame-1207658934.scriptgoggame-1207658934.script & an accompanying .info.info file in the game installation folder, could you send those into here?
These files contain information about what exactly happens when installing/launching the game. It's possible that something there is not implemented in Wine

Other than that, is there a "redist"/"_redist" folder in the game installation folder? If there is, installing the files in there (with "Run EXE on Prefix" in the game settings) might also help it

dual-salmonOP•1/10/23, 12:26 AM

Here's the files in the folder

goggame-1207658934.script1.79KB

goggame-1207658934.info1.74KB

dual-salmonOP•1/10/23, 12:27 AM

I mean somethings working because it launches the dosprompt with the menu, it's just once I select the option to launch the game or the dlc is when it crashes out.

WWindow Licker Here's the files in the folder

CommandMC•1/10/23, 12:28 AM

@Linguin anything obvious in here? I'm not quite as experienced with GOG stuff yet

dual-salmonOP•1/10/23, 12:29 AM

also no redist/_redist folders

CommandMC•1/10/23, 12:35 AM

This second FileTaskFileTask mentioned in the .info file might be interesting
Open up a terminal ("Konsole" works). Run these two commands:

cd "/home/deck/Games/Heroic/Dungeon Keeper Gold/DOSBOX"
WINEPREFIX=/home/deck/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/Dungeon Keeper Gold /home/deck/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/tools/wine/Wine-GE-Proton7-35/bin/wine GOGDOSConfig.exe 1207658934

cd "/home/deck/Games/Heroic/Dungeon Keeper Gold/DOSBOX"
WINEPREFIX=/home/deck/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/Dungeon Keeper Gold /home/deck/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/tools/wine/Wine-GE-Proton7-35/bin/wine GOGDOSConfig.exe 1207658934

Does anything of note happen?

dual-salmonOP•1/10/23, 12:42 AM

Whats that supposed to do, I understand CD is change directory to the game folder but I don't see an execution in there (but again I am a noob, I can't even tell if thats a single entry or two commands because it looks like one long one to me)

dual-salmonOP•1/10/23, 12:44 AM

"bash: Keeper: command not found"

WWindow Licker Whats that supposed to do, I understand CD is change directory to the game folde...

CommandMC•1/10/23, 12:44 AM

According to the file, that does "Graphic Mode Setup"
cd "/home/deck/Games/Heroic/Dungeon Keeper Gold/DOSBOX"cd "/home/deck/Games/Heroic/Dungeon Keeper Gold/DOSBOX" is the first command, the rest is the second. The file says that the working directory should be this directory

WWindow Licker "bash: Keeper: command not found"

CommandMC•1/10/23, 12:44 AM

Oh, right, forgot some quotes around there. One sec

CommandMC•1/10/23, 12:44 AM

WINEPREFIX="/home/deck/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/Dungeon Keeper Gold" /home/deck/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/tools/wine/Wine-GE-Proton7-35/bin/wine GOGDOSConfig.exe 1207658934

WINEPREFIX="/home/deck/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/Dungeon Keeper Gold" /home/deck/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/tools/wine/Wine-GE-Proton7-35/bin/wine GOGDOSConfig.exe 1207658934

dual-salmonOP•1/10/23, 12:45 AM

That executed (failed) but executed lol give me a sec to c&p the output

dual-salmonOP•1/10/23, 12:46 AM

output.log2.71KB

dual-salmonOP•1/10/23, 12:48 AM

I was really hoping this was just something I had set improperly on my side. I was lulled into a false sense of security with Fallout Classic working "out of the box" I think. I appreciate your help but I've got to step out for a while if you or someone else has advice I will give it a try later. Again thank you!

WWindow Licker Click to see attachment

CommandMC•1/10/23, 12:54 AM

Right, that error happens sometimes on the deck when running Wine like that. No idea why that happens, and no idea how to resolve that

You might be better off installing the native version of DOSBox & running that to then launch the game
Once it's installed, the commands to run it would be something along those lines:

cd "/home/deck/Games/Heroic/Dungeon Keeper Gold/DOSBOX"
flatpak run com.dosbox.DOSBox -conf ../dosboxDK.conf -conf ../dosboxDK_single.conf -noconsole -c exit

cd "/home/deck/Games/Heroic/Dungeon Keeper Gold/DOSBOX"
flatpak run com.dosbox.DOSBox -conf ../dosboxDK.conf -conf ../dosboxDK_single.conf -noconsole -c exit

(you can then add that as a sideloaded/non-steam game in Heroic or Steam respectively, once you've confirmed that it works of course)

Bbrilliant-lime Right, that error *happens* sometimes on the deck when running Wine like that. N...

dual-salmonOP•1/10/23, 2:24 AM

Gotcha, I'll install dosbox locally and give that a try next.

radical-lime•1/10/23, 8:42 AM

if com.dosbox.DOSBox doesn't work give dosbox staging a go

Rradical-lime if com.dosbox.DOSBox doesn't work give dosbox staging a go

dual-salmonOP•1/10/23, 6:21 PM

I couldn't get either to work because and it's just a case of my unfamiliarity with DOSBox/Staging. I installed both systems and I tried @CommandMC commands to execute it via dosbox but it just launches a dosbox window which immediately closes.

I tried launching both the DOSBox and Staging virtual environments and mounted the appropriate folder but when launching the appropriate exe it returns an error of "Please run INSTALL from CDROM" but since this is a gog game I don't have a CDROM iso to mount so I've hit a wall there.

As this is definitely not a "heroic games launcher" issue I'm not even sure I should be wasting folks time here with these issues but I appreciate everyones help. If there's a wiki I should be reading or something that would teach me about how to get gog games to work in DOSBox/Staging (btw staging definitely seems more user friendly thanks for the recommendation) I would greatly appreciate it.

Is there a way I can use the existing gog config files to launch the exe within DOSBox/Staging?

Bbrilliant-lime Right, that error *happens* sometimes on the deck when running Wine like that. N...

radical-lime•1/10/23, 6:23 PM

the command that CommandMC suggested here
just except com.dosbox.DOSBox use
dosbox staging's id

radical-lime•1/10/23, 6:24 PM

which is
io.github.dosbox-stagingio.github.dosbox-staging

Rradical-lime the command that CommandMC suggested here just except com.dosbox.DOSBox use dosb...

dual-salmonOP•1/10/23, 6:28 PM

That launched it but I got the attached error after selecting to launch the game from within the dos menu

error.log7.38KB

radical-lime•1/10/23, 6:34 PM

did it crash?

radical-lime•1/10/23, 6:34 PM

or is it working fine

radical-lime•1/10/23, 6:34 PM

log doesn't show any issues

dual-salmonOP•1/10/23, 6:35 PM

It launches to the dos menu just like heroic does and as soon as I select the game or its DLC it launches the dos4gw window and crashes

CommandMC•1/10/23, 6:38 PM

I wonder, does this game run on Windows? Seems almost like a configuration issue (on GOG's part) to me

radical-lime•1/10/23, 6:39 PM

https://www.gog.com/forum/dungeon_keeper_series

Dungeon Keeper series, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com

Download the best games on Windows & Mac. A vast selection of titles, DRM-free, with free goodies, and lots of pure customer love.

Bbrilliant-lime I wonder, does this game run on Windows? Seems almost like a configuration issue...

dual-salmonOP•1/10/23, 6:43 PM

Yes it was a windows95 game I think

CommandMC•1/10/23, 6:44 PM

I see

There's this modern reimplementation of the game, that should probably run: https://github.com/dkfans/keeperfx

Rradical-lime https://www.gog.com/forum/dungeon_keeper_series

dual-salmonOP•1/10/23, 6:47 PM

DOH, I didn't even think to check the help forums at GoG. I will start going through that as you and @CommandMC have helped me quite enough and I think this is far beyond a heroic issue I'll take my battle elsewhere. For posterity should I tag this thread as give-up? I mean I'm not giving up but it just doesn't apply to heroic (maybe there could be an N/A tag even?).

CommandMC•1/10/23, 6:48 PM

Well, the game is still something you can start through Heroic, so it should work there as well. So still a Heroic issue in my book

Bbrilliant-lime I see There's this modern reimplementation of the game, that should probably ru...

dual-salmonOP•1/10/23, 6:49 PM

I saw this earlier and it seems its worked for more than one person on the deck so I think I'll try that as we've exhausted the efforts to just get it working without another element.

Bbrilliant-lime Well, the game is still something you can *start* through Heroic, so it should *...

dual-salmonOP•1/10/23, 6:49 PM

I understand, so what do you think I should tag this thread as or should I try out keeperfx and then come back with results and tag accordingly?

WWindow Licker I saw this earlier and it seems its worked for more than one person on the deck ...

CommandMC•1/10/23, 6:50 PM

Let me know how well that goes (& what exactly you had to do to set it up). Heroic might have an installer for this tool built-in soon then (currently working on that feature)

radical-lime•1/10/23, 6:50 PM

I own the game too

radical-lime•1/10/23, 6:51 PM

I'll play arround with it

Rradical-lime I own the game too

dual-salmonOP•1/10/23, 6:52 PM

It was a great game in its day and I got nostalgic for it so I thought I'd see if I could get it working on the deck. I'll happily go down the rabbit hole of keeperfx and update accordingly.

radical-lime•1/10/23, 6:53 PM

I think I figured it out

CommandMC•1/10/23, 6:53 PM

Well that was fast

dual-salmonOP•1/10/23, 6:54 PM

no kidding lol

radical-lime•1/10/23, 6:54 PM

I did not

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