Grim Dawn Guide

Grantuu · Feb 12, 2017

Hi,

I got some problems getting Grim Dawn to work on my system.
I run Mint 18. I can do all steps including downloading the game via steam in WINE 1.7.39staging and 1.8.5. In followed the guide step by step but I can't run the Game at all.
In 1.7.39staging I get an Error when I click play in steam and the Game shuts down. The error message can not be generated.
In 1.8.5 I get an Error with the steamwebhelper already during the download and also after failed atempts to start the game in steam. here's my pastebin: http://pastebin.com/duCRr7Yu

Does Grim Dawn even run in it's current state on Linux?
And if so could you please help me resolve this problem. Your help is much apreciated.

booman · Feb 12, 2017

Welcome to the forum. I'm glad you are trying Grim Dawn because I am currently playing with my wife in Mint 18.
It is running fairly nice for both of us. I get that missing texture problem here and there, but otherwise it runs.

As for your log, I need all of the log before the crash. Are you able to install Steam and successfully download Grim Dawn?

That is the first step, then before you launch it make sure to install vcrun2015
Otherwise Steam will install it for you and it won't work.

Unfortunately you will need to start over, but if you do it in that order, it should run

Grantuu · Feb 13, 2017

I can install Steam and download Grim Dawn without any problems. I don't even have the "no text" bug when first opening Steam after installation. What log exactly do you need? I'm still a Linux Newbie.
I think I have some issues with the installation of vcrun2015. I follow the guide. It says "already installed" if I --force it I can uninstall it through the Wizard and then reinstall it via -g. Still didn't work.
When running Grim Dawn for the first time it will still install vcrun2015 for some reason even though i installed it previously.

Do I install Steam and Grim Dawn first and then install vcrun2015? I installed Steam then vcrun2015 then grim dawn.

And also the arguments for the configuration of the virtual drive "-no-dwrite -no-cef-sandbox" look different from what you have in you screenshot. wich ones do I use?

Thanks for your quick reply.

Grantuu · Feb 13, 2017

Now for some reason I can't even install vcrun2015 anymore.
Either it will say "already installed" in wich case i'll --force and uninstall vcrun2015 and it also says missing mfc140.dll wich I downloaded and C&P into the directory, wich solved at least that message.
Or it will give me the following Error and will not complete the installation. Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/R1BPZ7uM
I tried googling about it but couldn't find anything helpful.
This problem persists even after I dele the virtual drive and create a new one, even if I name it completely different from any previous virtual drive.

Any help is very much apreciated.

booman · Feb 13, 2017

I wonder if Steam is installing vcrun2015 first? I've never experienced this, and I don't think Steam requires it.

Try starting over with a brand new 32-bit virtual drive like this:

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Configure
Click New (Bottom Left)
Name the virtual drive
Select 32-bit
Next, Next, etc

Now you have a bare-bones virtual drive.

Select it on the left-side and click the Miscellaneous Tab
Click open a shell/command line button and follow the steps for vcrun2015
When its complete, stay on the Miscellaneous Tab
Click "Run a .exe file in this virtual drive"
Find your Steam Installer .exe
Follow all the steps for installing Steam
You can create a new shortcut from the General Tab
Name it Grim Dawn
Don't forget -no-dwrite -no-cef-sandbox in arguments
Click the "Install Components" Tab
Install the recommended packages in the guide
Click Wine Tab
Click "Wine Configuration"
Set Windows 7 and Mouse Checkbox
Close Configure
Now launch Steam with "Debug" not RUN
Login and Download Grim Dawn
You can actually copy the Grim Dawn folder from the SteamApps/Common directory to your new virtual drive. This speeds up the download process
Launch Grim Dawn
It should try to install dependencies like visual C and Direct X
If it still crashes, copy the debug again and post it.

Grantuu · Feb 14, 2017

Hello booman,

thanks again for your quick and detailed help. I had few little issues while following your instructions but could resolve most of them till I got to the point again where I hit "Play" on my Grim Dawn in Steam.
The dialog popped up again doing some "microsoft VC redist package" and "DirectX3d" stuff (Steps 1 through 5). After that I feel I got 0,001 bit closer to getting the game running. This time it didn't close, but steam showed me "Executing" on the game and my cursor disapeared when I moved it into the POL window. My system monitor also showed me my grimdawn.exe. But then nothing more happened even when I let it sit for a few minutes.
Here's my playonlinux.log I hope this will help. http://pastebin.com/wL21VRuS
Thanks again a lot for your help and support.

booman · Feb 14, 2017

Of course...
That is a long log. A lot of steamwebhelper.exe errors, but those do not matter. Shouldn't affect Grim Dawn. It "should" have run, so I'm starting to wonder what kind of hardware you have.
What video card do you have?
Did you install proprietary drivers?
Can you run any other games in PlayOnLinux?

Grantuu · Feb 14, 2017

I have a GeForce 940M, I have the proper drivers and PoE works on my system just fine.

dlf · Mar 17, 2017

I think I can pretty much get the game up and running although the title screen won't look like it does in the screenshots and the game appears to freeze when I get into the inventory.

booman · Mar 17, 2017

When it freezes, please post the debug and I'll take a look.

The only bad symptoms I have been experiencing is missing graphics. Sometimes I go into a dungeon/cave and the floor textures are messed up. I found if you go to the options and change anti-aliasing to x2 or x4, then it fixes the texture.

skweresp · Oct 13, 2017

Hi everyone. I install grim down with steam in wine. Everything was great until last update (11.10.2017) game start freezeing and is unable to play. Is there similar problems with playonlinux installation?

booman · Oct 13, 2017

Welcome to the forum!
This has happened several times in the past. Grim Dawn does an update and now the game won't run. I've been playing it recently but I'll normally download the entire game and then play offline co-op with my Wife.

I'll try running the update and see if it gives me any issues as well...

What distro, Wine version and specs do you have?
We Grim Dawn working previously?
It never hurts to try a fresh new install... just don't forge the vcrun2015 manual installation.

skweresp · Oct 13, 2017

@booman Thanks for reply, I use Manjaro Deepin and wine-staging 2.18. I have installed last nvidia drivers and bumblebee. Few minutes I write on this forum I can play for lond time and game don't freeze

but every new start of game is lottery. Before yesterday update everything was great, no freezeing, no graphics glitches.

booman · Oct 14, 2017

I wonder what the developers updated?
I'll have to give it a try as well and see if my system is affected too. I'm playing on an older version of wine and have GeForce dedicated video cards:

750 Ti
GTX 1060

booman · Oct 15, 2017

I did the update and Grim Dawn runs fine!
You may want to try re-installing from scratch.

dlf · Oct 15, 2017

Anyone gotten the GOG (/or steam) version to run since the release of the expansion /update? . . . .

booman · Oct 15, 2017

I have the GOG version as well, but haven't picked up the expansion yet.

skweresp · Oct 15, 2017

Thanks, I will reinstall if freezeing will occur.

dlf · Oct 15, 2017

Got steam installed (normal WINE Steam that uses 2.12), and Grim Dawn (post expansion) runs fine, a little more bright then I think it'd be otherwise but that runs. On the other hand trying to get VC2015 run (so I can install either Steam or GOG v) gives when copy+pasting in the last command:

PlayOnLinux Console
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You are in 's virtual drive environment
PlayOnLinux: /home/dlf/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/GrimDawnGOG/drive_c > wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks
--2017-10-15 13:53:03-- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks
Resolving raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)... 151.101.0.133, 151.101.128.133, 151.101.64.133, ...
Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)|151.101.0.133|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 700054 (684K) [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘winetricks’

winetricks 100%[=====================================>] 683.65K 663KB/s in 1.0s

2017-10-15 13:53:04 (663 KB/s) - ‘winetricks’ saved [700054/700054]

PlayOnLinux: /home/dlf/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/GrimDawnGOG/drive_c >
PlayOnLinux: /home/dlf/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/GrimDawnGOG/drive_c >
PlayOnLinux: /home/dlf/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/GrimDawnGOG/drive_c > chmod +x winetricks
PlayOnLinux: /home/dlf/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/GrimDawnGOG/drive_c > WINEPREFIX=/home/dlf/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/grimdawn ./winetricks -q vcrun2015
Using winetricks 20170823-next - sha256sum: 0848eb94dee9ff4393e0fe2d2fcb60796b0bc15a3185a7888716edfa385dcdf9 with wine-2.19 and WINEARCH=win32
Executing w_do_call vcrun2015
Executing load_vcrun2015
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Working around wine bug 37781
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This may fail in non-XP mode, see https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37781
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Using native,builtin override for following DLLs: api-ms-win-crt-conio-l1-1-0 api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0 api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0 api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0 api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0 api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0 api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0 atl140 concrt140 msvcp140 msvcr140 ucrtbase vcomp140 vcruntime140
Executing wine regedit /S C:\windows\Temp\_vcrun2015\override-dll.reg
Setting Windows version to winxp
Executing wine regedit /S C:\windows\Temp\_vcrun2015\set-winver.reg
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Running /home/dlf/.PlayOnLinux//wine/linux-x86/2.19/bin//wineserver -w. This will hang until all wine processes in prefix=/home/dlf/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/grimdawn terminate
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Executing cd /home/dlf/.cache/winetricks/vcrun2015
Executing wine vc_redist.x86.exe /q
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winemenubuilder.exe"
err:wineboot

rocessRunKeys Error running cmd L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winemenubuilder.exe -a -r" (2)
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"winebus.sys": libudev.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
err:winedevice:async_create_driver failed to create driver L"WineBus": c0000142
fixme:heap:RtlSetHeapInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0 stub
fixme:heap:RtlSetHeapInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0 stub
fixme:ntdll:NtQueryInformationToken QueryInformationToken( ..., TokenElevation, ...) semi-stub
err

le:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded
fixme:heap:RtlSetHeapInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0 stub
fixme:heap:RtlSetHeapInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0 stub
fixme:ntdll:NtQueryInformationToken QueryInformationToken( ..., TokenElevation, ...) semi-stub
err

le:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded
fixme:advapi

ecryptFileW (L"C:\\users\\dlf\\Temp\\{74d0e5db-b326-4dae-a6b2-445b9de1836e}\\", 00000000): stub
fixme:shell:SHAutoComplete stub
fixme:advapi

ecryptFileW (L"C:\\users\\dlf\\Temp\\{74d0e5db-b326-4dae-a6b2-445b9de1836e}\\", 00000000): stub
fixme:wuapi:automatic_updates_Pause
fixme:ntdll:NtLockFile I/O completion on lock not implemented yet
p11-kit: couldn't load module: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/p11-kit-trust.so: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/p11-kit-trust.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
p11-kit: couldn't load module: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
fixme:wuapi:automatic_updates_Resume
PlayOnLinux: /home/dlf/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/GrimDawnGOG/drive_c >

I've tried 1.7.3.9 (/staging), 2.1.8 (/staging)/2.1.9 and I think I get the same result everytime, I don't think used to (much earlier this year).

booman · Oct 16, 2017

If you can play Grim Dawn then you installed vcrun2015 just fine. I know its confusing and I hope PlayOnLinux developers can add it to the packages list some day.

I'm not sure what the "winemenubuilder" errors are all about. I don't remember seeing those when I installed vcrun2015. Make sure to kill all processes in that virtual drive before installing vcrun2015

I don't have the expansion yet so I can't test it either.