Unable to run setup.exe

I am using Ubuntu 22.04. For some reason I am unable to run any setup.exe for any game. The log just says that it tried to run the exe with no other line after. If I install the game from Windows then after I can typically run the game from Linux.
Any idea?

dry-scarlet•2/18/24, 2:35 AM

what are you trying to do

awake-maroonOP•2/18/24, 7:17 AM

install games

awake-maroonOP•2/18/24, 7:17 AM

but the issue occurs with several games which are unrelated

dry-scarlet•2/18/24, 7:18 AM

why are you using setup files??

dry-scarlet•2/18/24, 7:18 AM

just use heroic.. it handles installing games from gog and egs and amazon

awake-maroonOP•2/18/24, 7:19 AM

oh yeah it's for games which are not from these libraries

dry-scarlet•2/18/24, 7:19 AM

Heroic also has a side load option

dry-scarlet•2/18/24, 7:19 AM

just select the installer from there

awake-maroonOP•2/18/24, 7:19 AM

yes that's what does not work

awake-maroonOP•2/18/24, 7:20 AM

selecting the installer - then the log just shows it is trying to run setup.exe and nothing happens

dry-scarlet•2/18/24, 7:21 AM

dry-scarlet•2/18/24, 7:21 AM

post the log

awake-maroonOP•2/18/24, 7:22 AM

(18:22:10) INFO: [Backend]: Checking if wine version exists: Proton - Proton-GE-Proton8-27

(18:22:10) WARNING: [Backend]: You are using Proton, this can lead to some bugs. Please do not open issues with bugs related to games

(18:22:10) INFO: [Backend]: Checking if wine version exists: Proton - Proton-GE-Proton8-27

(18:22:10) INFO: [Backend]: Checking if wine version exists: Proton - Proton-GE-Proton8-27

(18:22:10) DEBUG: [Backend]: Running Wine command: run wineboot --init

(18:22:10) INFO: [Backend]: Checking if wine version exists: Proton - Proton-GE-Proton8-27

(18:22:10) DEBUG: [Backend]: Running Wine command: run /home/raphael/Games/WorldBox/setup.exe

awake-maroonOP•2/18/24, 7:22 AM

It's like this

awake-maroonOP•2/18/24, 7:22 AM

and then nothing happens

dry-scarlet•2/18/24, 7:23 AM

(18:22:10) WARNING: [Backend]:          You are using Proton, this can lead to some bugs. Please do not open issues with bugs related to games

(18:22:10) WARNING: [Backend]:          You are using Proton, this can lead to some bugs. Please do not open issues with bugs related to games

Use wine-ge

awake-maroonOP•2/18/24, 7:23 AM

ok let me try

dry-scarlet•2/18/24, 7:25 AM

this works for all the games i've installed this way, fwiw

awake-maroonOP•2/18/24, 7:25 AM

Ok I am getting this now(18:23:44) INFO: [Backend]: Checking if wine version exists: Wine - Wine-GE-Proton8-25

(18:23:44) INFO: [Backend]: Checking if wine version exists: Wine - Wine-GE-Proton8-25

(18:23:44) INFO: [Backend]: Checking if wine version exists: Wine - Wine-GE-Proton8-25

(18:23:44) DEBUG: [Backend]: Running Wine command: wineboot --init

awake-maroonOP•2/18/24, 7:25 AM

Is it supposed to take a long time?

dry-scarlet•2/18/24, 7:25 AM

generally not long

awake-maroonOP•2/18/24, 7:25 AM

this typically hangs for me

awake-maroonOP•2/18/24, 7:26 AM

so the workaround I have found is to first not run the installer

awake-maroonOP•2/18/24, 7:26 AM

then run winecfg for instance

awake-maroonOP•2/18/24, 7:26 AM

run setup.exe from windows

awake-maroonOP•2/18/24, 7:26 AM

and then link to my ubuntu heroic install and then that works

awake-maroonOP•2/18/24, 7:26 AM

the issue is that I have to boot to windows for that process and it's a pain

awake-maroonOP•2/18/24, 7:27 AM

is there anyway I can increase the debug level?

dry-scarlet•2/18/24, 7:29 AM

yeah i dont have windows installed so icant tell you about any of that. But for me, when i use the side loaded feature, i just select the installer from the pop up after clicking run installer first, i dont have anything magical set up

awake-maroonOP•2/18/24, 7:29 AM

what I normally do after a while is go to a terminal and run 'pkill wine'

dry-scarlet•2/18/24, 7:29 AM

are you on flatpak?

awake-maroonOP•2/18/24, 7:30 AM

I am running on the deb package

dry-scarlet•2/18/24, 7:30 AM

do you have all the wine deps installed?

dry-scarlet•2/18/24, 7:30 AM

from the readme first post

awake-maroonOP•2/18/24, 7:32 AM

let me review that

awake-maroonOP•2/18/24, 7:38 AM

alright all dependencies are installed now but it did not solve the issue

awake-maroonOP•2/18/24, 7:39 AM

it's working now

awake-maroonOP•2/18/24, 7:39 AM

I had to recreate the wineprefix

awake-maroonOP•2/18/24, 7:39 AM

@Allora thank you so much for your help

awake-maroonOP•2/18/24, 7:39 AM

I feel sorry for disturbing when all you pointed was to follow the doc

awake-maroonOP•2/18/24, 7:40 AM

dry-scarlet•2/18/24, 7:44 AM

yeah that would make sense that you had to delete the prefix

dry-scarlet•2/18/24, 7:44 AM

glad it worked out

dry-scarlet•2/18/24, 7:45 AM

hopefully it was just a lack of the dependencies

awake-maroonOP•2/18/24, 7:47 AM

and possibly the wine version too

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