HGL
correct-apricot

Lands of Lore will not launch.

Trying to launch Lands of Lore (GoG) and launcher attempts to run the game. system logs during the attempt shows only a warning: "(00:41:22) [WARNING]: No clientId in goggame-1207662513.info file. Cannot resolve save path" every other entry related to the attempt is listed as [INFO] or [DEBUG] OS is currently Ubuntu 25.04, launch.log appended.
10 Replies
adverse-sapphire
adverse-sapphire3w ago
As Lands of Lore is a DOS game, you can try installing the DOSBox Staging flatpak and Heroic will use that instead of trying to run the one bundled with the game.
correct-apricot
correct-apricotOP3w ago
Will Heroic detect that on its own or will i need to re-install Lands of Lore or do something else for it to work?
adverse-sapphire
adverse-sapphire3w ago
I don't know. I think it's automatic.
correct-apricot
correct-apricotOP3w ago
Installing the DOSBox Staging flatpak did not allow the game to run, only change to log is [PYI-506:ERROR] instead of the [PYI-4526:ERROR] stated in the attached log, entire rest of that line remains the same. changed distro to cachyos, still same issue. not sure why there's not a dosbox folder if it's looking for one? guess i might have to dig into the directory and try to find what it thinks is missing.
CommandMC
CommandMC3w ago
Yeah looks like this game doesn't come with DOSBox: https://www.gogdb.org/product/1207662513/build/52095488219197517 There are config files mentioned here, but no actual executable https://api.gog.com/v2/games/1207662513 has isUsingDosBox set to true, so that might be something gogdl can look for The game is unavailable on GOG, so I can't really test anything here
correct-apricot
correct-apricotOP2w ago
GOG.com
Lands of Lore™ 1+2
Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos takes you on an adventure: save the dying king and sto
CommandMC
CommandMC2w ago
Ah I see, based on the subtitle I didn't think this was either base game Gonna give this a shot sometime the next few days then
correct-apricot
correct-apricotOP2w ago
just checked under win and lin, win install has dosbox in it but under lin there are no folders at all. im confused as to why the installer would have less contents under linux?
CommandMC
CommandMC2w ago
Checking the log, this looks relevant:
(13:10:29) [INFO]: [Gog]: Setup: Finished
(13:10:29) [WARNING]: [Gog]: SETUP: Was not able to find redist data for DOSBox074glideC
(13:10:29) [INFO]: [Gog]: Setup: Finished
(13:10:29) [WARNING]: [Gog]: SETUP: Was not able to find redist data for DOSBox074glideC
Yeah there's no DOSBox074glideC. There is DOSBox074glide, and https://www.gogdb.org/meta/988eced1ba00e25e526e7c37b89658a6 lists the dependency as DOSBox074_2CS instead (which we also have). Looking into how we arrived at DOSBox074glideC Ah I see, we're pulling in the v1 manifest. Seems the v2 one is unlisted? @Linguin Might need your help here. I've confirmed that GOG Galaxy is also pulling in the v1 build, but they are installing the dependency correctly. I'm not sure how I'm also curious on why the v2 build is unlisted. Also, GOGDB claims that only the Windows build is unlisted ("Builds" list on GOGDB), but https://content-system.gog.com/products/1207662513/os/osx/builds only returns the v1 one as well. Perhaps something for the GOG folks to look into? Seems they've put in the work of making the build, but now just don't list it
absent-sapphire
absent-sapphire2w ago
there seems to be something up with with dependencies I’ll try to find some time for this issue this week

Did you find this page helpful?