Melvor Idle doesn't launch

Today I tried to launch the game Melvor Idle on linux manjaro 6.6.7-4 using Wine-GE-Proton8-27-Lol, but after about 2-5 seconds the game did not start and the Play now button was displayed again. After that I installed Proton-GE-proton8-25 but the result is the same.

Please help me, what should I do?

sacred-rose•12/21/23, 8:03 PM

i have the same issue

radical-lime•12/21/23, 8:04 PM

hi, please read 🆘-supportRead Me First | Frequently Asked Questions and attach relevant logs

sacred-rose•12/21/23, 8:12 PM

thx for ur response, I'm answering instead of the author; hope there is no problem with that. Here is my log file

sacred-rose•12/21/23, 8:13 PM

idk why I cant send it, trying to resolve it

radical-lime•12/21/23, 8:15 PM

drag & drop may not work if you are on the deck / using Discord flatpak, use the

sign on the left

sacred-rose•12/21/23, 8:15 PM

7458160f5c18450cad7e95844a5dcdff-lastPlay.log6.8KB

sacred-rose•12/21/23, 8:16 PM

thx !

radical-lime•12/21/23, 8:20 PM

could you try with Wine-GE?

radical-lime•12/21/23, 8:20 PM

that would give us more verbose logs

sacred-rose•12/21/23, 8:22 PM

Sure ! I'll check how to install Wine and I'll send you this

dangerous-fuchsia•12/21/23, 8:26 PM

Having the same issue on the steam deck

7458160f5c18450cad7e95844a5dcdff-lastPlay.log6.99KB

Ssacred-rose Sure ! I'll check how to install Wine and I'll send you this

full-green•12/21/23, 8:26 PM

I might be wrong but I think he meant this

Ffull-green I might be wrong but I think he meant this

sacred-rose•12/21/23, 8:27 PM

oh, didn't see this

, thanks haha !

Rradical-lime could you try with Wine-GE?

dry-scarlet•12/21/23, 8:34 PM

7458160f5c18450cad7e95844a5dcdff-lastPlay.log32.05KB

dry-scarlet•12/21/23, 8:35 PM

Crash keys:
"DelayLoad-ModuleName" = "api-ms-win-core-realtime-l1-1-1.dll"
"num-extensions" = "0"
"breadcrumbs" = "0:00:00 Startup

radical-lime•12/21/23, 8:35 PM

wait

radical-lime•12/21/23, 8:35 PM

is it an electron game really?

radical-lime•12/21/23, 8:35 PM

ironic

dry-scarlet•12/21/23, 8:35 PM

I installed a bunch of vcrun stuff but didn't help, ye.

dry-scarlet•12/21/23, 8:36 PM

Game is like 100 mb fwiw

dry-scarlet•12/21/23, 8:36 PM

Anyone can give a shot in no time

Rradical-lime is it an electron game really?

full-green•12/21/23, 8:39 PM

yeah afaik it's the same story as cookie clicker. Electron version of a browser game so they could sell it at the store

dry-scarlet•12/21/23, 8:46 PM

There is no useful entry on ProtonDB btw because that game has Linux build in Steam

dry-scarlet•12/21/23, 8:46 PM

So people just reports native results

radical-lime•12/21/23, 8:53 PM

yeah

CommandMC•12/21/23, 9:01 PM

This game is strange. They seem to rely on a

nw.dll

nw.dll

(which is almost 200MBs in size!) to handle everything. This dll then somehow adds a global object to the Electron renderer, and then they embed their own site (

https://epicgames.melvoridle.com/

https://epicgames.melvoridle.com/

), which is somehow able to talk to this

nw

nw

global

TLDR: Just open up https://melvoridle.com/ in your browser if you really want to play the game. Could even add it to Heroic as a browser game

wet-aqua•12/21/23, 9:18 PM

Has anyone tried simulate writecopy yet?

dry-scarlet•12/21/23, 9:18 PM

I did

dry-scarlet•12/21/23, 9:18 PM

No luck

wet-aqua•12/21/23, 9:18 PM

I'll try it then

dry-scarlet•12/21/23, 9:20 PM

Things i've tried:

WINE_SIMULATE_WRITECOPY=1

WINE_SIMULATE_WRITECOPY=1

vcrun 2017-2019-2022

vcrun 2017-2019-2022

Bbrilliant-lime This game is strange. They seem to rely on a `nw.dll` (which is almost 200MBs in...

full-green•12/21/23, 9:57 PM

yeah that's the optimal way to play anyway. I'm guessing people only want to register with epic so that it validates purchase.
Once you do that, there's no benefit of not playing in the browser with a cloud account (strange that they didn't add epic on the website yet tho)

awake-maroon•12/21/23, 10:09 PM

seems to work with wine-9.0-rc2 staging for me

awake-maroon•12/21/23, 10:13 PM

(that cannot be installed through the wine manager section)

awake-maroon•12/21/23, 10:14 PM

consitently fails with wine-ge and proton-ge, so install the latest wine staging (how to do that will depend on your distro)

wet-aquaOP•12/23/23, 6:21 AM

@arieljuod until then how to install it? I'm just new to linux(

awake-maroon•12/23/23, 1:21 PM

what's your linux distro?

Aawake-maroon seems to work with wine-9.0-rc2 staging for me

full-green•12/23/23, 3:26 PM

Thanks man, switching to staging did in fact work (don't know why I didn't do it sooner). It's incredibly infuriating that heroic flatpak doesn't see it tho, but Appimage does.

awake-maroon•12/23/23, 3:30 PM

flatpaks in general have limitations of what they can see in the system, that's a flatpak thing, you can probably set permissions using flatseal to access where the wine-staging binaries are

full-green•12/23/23, 3:31 PM

did you have any issue signing into epic account once Melvor is run and asked for login?

awake-maroon•12/23/23, 3:33 PM

no issues, I was able to log in just fine

full-green•12/23/23, 3:35 PM

huh maybe I'm just stupid. I created an account a while back on a website and try to login with that account from epic. I probably need to create a new account on melvor from epic

full-green•12/23/23, 3:41 PM

nah that's not it, after running Melvor and creating a new account, a sign in page pops up asking me to sign in my epic account and spits this after entering email

awake-maroon•12/23/23, 4:12 PM

not sure what can be wrong, once the game runs it's out of heroic's control

maybe try using a VPN or changing your system's DNS servers to use the ones from google?

Ffull-green nah that's not it, after running Melvor and creating a new account, a sign in pa...

full-green•12/24/23, 10:57 AM

Yeah this is definitely not linux related. Same result on windows as well

full-green•12/24/23, 8:12 PM

apparently it was a known issue with epic for 2 days and it's fixed now

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