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stormy-gold
Age of Wonders 4 fails to launch/stay running
Similar to the Returnal post. I'm attempting to run Age of Wonders 4 (GoG) on Apple silicon (M2), Sequioa 15.5, using latest Game Porting Toolkit. The game goes Launching -> Playing -> then nothing. I just recently installed Heroic and play Rocket League on it just fine, but that's via Epic. My installation is very standard/uses latest configs etc.
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just out of curosity, can you go to this folder in finder
/Users/xxx/Games/Heroic/Age of Wonders 4/ and dig around to see if aow4.exe exists there
if so,
can you set it as an alternative exe?...11 Replies
stormy-goldOP•3d ago
I attempted to launch using a different version of Wine than Game Porting Toolkit and it showed an error... but when I launch using Game Porting Toolkit-latest it now always shows that same error and the Wine Debugger comes up. These didn't show up before attempting to launch using a different version of Wine.
other-emerald•3d ago
twot hings
Game Log: IMPORTANT: Logs are disabled. Enable verbose logs in Game's settings > Advanced tab > 'Enable verbose logs' before reporting an issue.can you turn on verbose logs? and second, did you get to set up the paradox launcher at all or did it immediately just crash
stormy-goldOP•3d ago
I'll go set up logs one sec
No, I never touched Paradox launcher -- that only came up when I started messing with other Wine versions.
Verbose log:
Launching "Age of Wonders 4" (gog)
Native? No
Installed in: /Users/hjs/Games/Heroic/Age of Wonders 4
System Info:
CPU: 12x Apple M2 Max
Memory: 34.36 GB (used: 16.78 GB)
GPUs:
OS: 15.5.0 (darwin)
The current system is not a Steam Deck
We are not running inside a Flatpak container
Software Versions:
Heroic: 2.17.0 Cutty Flam Franky
Legendary: 0.20.37 Exit 17 (Heroic)
gogdl: 1.1.2
comet: comet 0.2.0
Nile: 1.1.2 Will A. Zeppeli
Game Settings: {
"preferSystemLibs": false,
"enableEsync": true,
"enableMsync": true,
"enableFsync": true,
"enviromentOptions": [],
"wrapperOptions": [],
"targetExe": "",
"language": "",
"beforeLaunchScriptPath": "",
"afterLaunchScriptPath": "",
"verboseLogs": true,
"wineCrossoverBottle": "",
"gogSaves": [
{
"name": "save",
"location": "/Users/hjs/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/Age of Wonders 4/dosdevices/c:/users/crossover/Documents/Paradox Interactive/Age of Wonders 4/Storage/Save"
},
{
"name": "profile",
"location": "/Users/hjs/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/Age of Wonders 4/dosdevices/c:/users/crossover/Documents/Paradox Interactive/Age of Wonders 4/Storage/Profile"
},
{
"name": "empire",
"location": "/Users/hjs/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/Age of Wonders 4/dosdevices/c:/users/crossover/Documents/Paradox Interactive/Age of Wonders 4/Storage/Empire"
}
]
}
Game launched at: Sat May 31 2025 15:19:01 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
Winetricks packages:
Launch Command: HEROIC_APP_NAME=1915432764 HEROIC_APP_RUNNER=gog GAMEID=umu-0 HEROIC_APP_SOURCE=gog STORE=gog LD_PRELOAD= WINEPREFIX="/Users/hjs/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/Age of Wonders 4" WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR=0 WINEESYNC=1 WINEMSYNC=1 /Applications/Heroic.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar.unpacked/build/bin/arm64/darwin/gogdl launch "/Users/hjs/Games/Heroic/Age of Wonders 4" 1915432764 --wine "/Users/hjs/Library/Application Support/heroic/tools/game-porting-toolkit/Game-Porting-Toolkit-latest/Contents/Resources/wine/bin/wine64" --platform windows
Game Log:
esync: up and running.
0024:err:kerberos:kerberos_LsaApInitializePackage no Kerberos support, expect problems
0024:err:winediag:ntlm_check_version ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path. Usually, you can find it in the winbind package of your distribution.
0024:err:ntlm:ntlm_LsaApInitializePackage no NTLM support, expect problems
0024:fixme:powrprof:PowerRegisterSuspendResumeNotification (0x00000002,000000000081FCF0,000000000081FCE8) stub!
0024:fixme:heap:RtlSetHeapInformation 0000000000000000 1 0000000000000000 0 stub
0024:fixme:ntdll:EtwEventSetInformation (deadbeef, 2, 00004C9000234FF0, 16) stub
wine: Unhandled exception 0x80000003 in thread 24 at address 0000000141C52DA8 (thread 0024), starting debugger...
007c:fixme:imm:ImeSetActiveContext (0x37acb0, 0): stub
007c:fixme:imm:ImmReleaseContext (0000000000010020, 000000000037ACB0): stub
0110:fixme:imm:ImeSetActiveContext (0x36b4a0, 1): stub
0110:fixme:imm:ImmReleaseContext (000000000002004A, 000000000036B4A0): stub
0108:fixme:imm:ImeSetActiveContext (0x36d460, 1): stub
0108:fixme:imm:ImmReleaseContext (000000000001007C, 000000000036D460): stub
0108:fixme🧵get_thread_times not implemented on this platform
Launch command: ['/Users/hjs/Library/Application Support/heroic/tools/game-porting-toolkit/Game-Porting-Toolkit-latest/Contents/Resources/wine/bin/wine64', '/Users/hjs/Games/Heroic/Age of Wonders 4/launcher-se/Paradox Launcher.exe']
============= End of log =============
other-emerald•3d ago
looks like its the paradox launcher being annoying(?)
just out of curosity, can you go to this folder in finder
/Users/hjs/Games/Heroic/Age of Wonders 4/ and dig around to see if aow4.exe exists therestormy-goldOP•2d ago
sure one sec
I see it there
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other-emerald•2d ago
just out of curosity, can you go to this folder in finder
/Users/xxx/Games/Heroic/Age of Wonders 4/ and dig around to see if aow4.exe exists there
if so,
can you set it as an alternative exe?other-emerald•2d ago
and then try launching the game?
im thinking if you can just avoid the paradox launcher itd work fine
stormy-goldOP•17h ago
Trying that now! sorry for the lag/delay in responding... I appreciate your help very much!
stormy-goldOP•17h ago
IT WORKED
stormy-goldOP•17h ago
you are a god amongst mere mortals
the most amazing detective/genius
THANK YOU
other-emerald•15h ago
im just a gem in a cave, no need to do all that
its my job to hel 🫡