Trouble downloading and installing Webview2

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Criarino
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Trouble downloading and installing Webview2

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I'm trying to run this game on an Arch OS with wine. The game installs fine, but it needs WebView2 to run the launcher and I'm having trouble with that:

When running the game itself wine opens a popup to install the necessary things and opens the installer for Webview, but sometimes the installer can't download the packages saying basically "fail downloading webview, check your firewall", other times it downloads but gets stuck on "installing webview" for about one hour when it just fails.

I've tried downloading the installer manually, creating a new prefix, installing webview before the game and using a 32 bit prefix, nothing worked. Using wine 8.13 and Arch.

Here is the terminal output for when the WebView's installer can't download
Here for when it downloads the packages but can't install.
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Re: Trouble downloading and installing Webview2

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Fellow user here. There is an ntlm_auth error in your log(s). You need ntlm_auth for some internet communications. In debian that is in the winbind package, but I don't know the package name in arch.
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Re: Trouble downloading and installing Webview2

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yeah after installing samba and lib32-gnutls it now downloads consistently and without errors, but still hangs in the instalation process for about one hour before failing. Here is the new terminal output, I can't see any relevant info in it, though
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Re: Trouble downloading and installing Webview2

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so I managed to solve it, just had to install the edge browser manually. To do that just run winecfg and set compatibility mode to at least windows 7, download and install edge normally
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Re: Trouble downloading and installing Webview2

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installing edge browser manually didnt helped me, do u know any other way to fix it?
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