Steam Magicka Advice

[kcoo]

Hey I'm new to wine so please bare with me. I'm trying to use Wine to get my Steam version of Magicka to work. I have properly installed Steam through Wine and I have followed all the steps from the Magicka tutorial in the AppDB.

The issue I'm still having is that every single time I attempt to open the game it tries to download Directx, then quits because it cannot.

What works
Everything:
Single Player, Multi player, hosting, joining games.

What does not
Nothing linux specific. Game occasionally crashes (Especially in Multi Player) but those happen in Windows as well.

What was not tested
Beating the campaign, all DLC

Additional Comments
You need to install dotnet35 and xna with winetricks first. That process is buggy and you might need to retry couple of times until you manage it. Once dotnet35 is installed the game is sure to run.

To prevent the game from trying to install dotnet, xna and directx on every launch, add the following dword registry settings and set them to 1:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Valve\Steam\Apps\42910\DirectX
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Valve\Steam\Apps\42910\DotNet
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Valve\Steam\Apps\42910\XNA

Hardware tested:
CPU: 4900MQ
GPU: GF 765M GTX, via bumblebee

I have tried to edit those registry files but I couldn't locate them. On my machine there are no folders passed Steam

example: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Valve\Steam\

There may be a small… chance… that I have no clue what I'm doing… Any help would be much appreciated.

[dimesio]

You need to create them.

[kcoo]

Thats what I was afraid of, I'll look into adding sword registries and hope I don't break anything. Wish me luck!

[kcoo]

Well I surprisingly managed to create these files pretty easily in my registry. I'm still getting the "Installing: Microsoft DirectX" message before every start.

[oiaohm]

kcoo timing on setting some of these registry settings is critical. Once steam starts attempting to install something can can keep on trying to resume it so paying no attention to the registry keys you set.

[ZombieRedShirt]

Well I surprisingly managed to create these files pretty easily in my registry. I'm still getting the "Installing: Microsoft DirectX" message before every start.

Hello kcoo. You may have better luck deleting the 42910_install.vdf file which can be found in the magicka game folder. That is basically listing things that steam needs to install before the game runs. Deleting this file will just get it to load the game without installing anything.