Fallen Earth Help

[GlassWizzard]

Hi, could someone help me with getting the launcher for Fallen Earth to run. On the games wine page it says winetricks and ie7 should be installed to get the launcher working. I installed winetricks fine, then ie7 using winetricks. At the end of ie7's install it said that it won't run on a 64 bit system and it needed a prefix "WINEARCH=win32".

I don't know how to use that prefix thing, but I don't need to personally run ie7, it's just for the games launcher, and I don't think that can run ie7 with that prefix. I think that 32-bit ie7 might be of no help since the game installed on 64-bit.

The game has a gold rating with wine version 1.4-rc4. I tried to find a binary to use with lutris but all I can find is the source and I'm having trouble compiling it, I think it complained about an undefined variable (and I had to use the --without-freetype option).

At this point I don't really know what to do. Does anyone have any suggestions on what to try next? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

[GlassWizzard]

This is the page I should have been looking at, the other was much older.

I only know how to set up a 32bit wine in PlayOnLinux, so that's what I've been using in my attempts. I see so many people reporting gold status with this game so it must work. This is the first time I'm using/learning about wine so I'm new to all this.

[jkfloris]

I will try to give step by step instructions.

0. Make sure wine and winetricks are up-to-date.
- Wine installation instructions: https://wiki.winehq.org/Download
- Update winetricks with:

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sudo winetricks --self-update

1. Create a 32-bit wineprefix and install Internet Explorer 8
This will create a 32-bit prefix in the FallenEarth folder in your home directory.
If you like an other name, that's no problem.

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WINEPREFIX=${HOME}/FallenEarth WINEARCH=win32 winetricks -q ie8

2. Install Fallen Earth in the new wineprefix.
In this example, the installation file is in the Downloads folder.
You can skip the DirectX installation and close the Internet Explorer window at the end of the installation.

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WINEPREFIX=${HOME}/FallenEarth wine ${HOME}/Downloads/Fallen_Earth_Downloader.exe

3. Start Fallen Earth
After installation, you can play the game. If you want to start it another time, use:

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cd "${HOME}/FallenEarth/drive_c/Program Files/GamersFirst/Fallen Earth"
WINEPREFIX=${HOME}/FallenEarth wine FEUpdater.exe

[GlassWizzard]

Thank you for spelling that out for me. The game works great. I have to disable UFW, but it's working

[Levitating]

The updater never manages to launch the game in my case.
The wine log ends with:

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#003c:Ret  PE DLL (proc=6A2F1180,module=6A280000 L"msvcrt.dll",reason=PROCESS_DETACH,res=00000001) retval=1
#003c:Call PE DLL (proc=7B631A10,module=7B600000 L"kernel32.dll",reason=PROCESS_DETACH,res=00000001)
#003c:Ret  PE DLL (proc=7B631A10,module=7B600000 L"kernel32.dll",reason=PROCESS_DETACH,res=00000001) retval=1
#003c:Call PE DLL (proc=7B03B0D0,module=7B000000 L"kernelbase.dll",reason=PROCESS_DETACH,res=00000001)
#003c:Ret  PE DLL (proc=7B03B0D0,module=7B000000 L"kernelbase.dll",reason=PROCESS_DETACH,res=00000001) retval=1
#003c:Call PE DLL (proc=7BC63060,module=7BC00000 L"ntdll.dll",reason=PROCESS_DETACH,res=00000001)
#003c:Ret  PE DLL (proc=7BC63060,module=7BC00000 L"ntdll.dll",reason=PROCESS_DETACH,res=00000001) retval=1

I am using `wine-7.5` on ArchLinux.

So the updater finished downloading any updates, then the updater closes without the game being launched at all.
Using a 32 bit prefix, ie8 and msxml3 installed.