Unable to load mods on Linux

[AdivonSlav]

I'm running PopOS 22.04 and tried running the mod manager through Steam's Proton compatibility layer. The mod manager runs, through the downloaded workshop mods never appear and downloading new ones through the mod manager does nothing (no downloads on Steam's end start). The folder paths seem to be correctly set, matching Proton's Z: drive path.

[jpw1991]

@AdivonSlav how did you fix this? Encountering the same problem

[tpkee]

Why can't people write the solution they found ffs

[AdivonSlav]

Sorry guys, I never figured this out and just dropped it. Idk why I marked it as completed but I'll reopen for visibility.

[GalacticAdmiral]

For me this fixed it on Arch:

1. Add mod manager to steam
2. Properties
3. Launch option
4. STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH="/home/<your-username-here>/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/1142710" %command%
5. Comparability, you have to chose one as its a manually added program. i picked Proton Experimental.
6. WH3 Properties
7. Launcher option%command% "used_mods.txt;"

When you click play, you have to close the app yourself and start WH3 with Play Game (Skip Launcher)
This should resolve this topic.

Not sure how this starts the game but a option to save and quit would be nice, tho that is not a part of this topic

[tpkee]

nope, doesnt work at all

[GalacticAdmiral]

Hmm, wierd.
Is it set as the Z folder as well in the mod manager's Configure Folder Locations?
Do you see mods in the manager, does it generate the used_mods.txt file?
What OS are you running and proton did you test on?

[tpkee]

Hmm, wierd. Is it set as the Z folder as well in the mod manager's Configure Folder Locations? Do you see mods in the manager, does it generate the used_mods.txt file? What OS are you running and proton did you test on?

Since I ran it through Proton it should be the Z drive, yeah.

The manager doesn’t open at all and doesn’t log anything in particular. I used the proton experimental version on the exe (latest v from the release page) added to steam as a non-Steam game. I also tried to ran it on the prefix with proton tricks, tried to psss the steam compat env var as well but it doesn’t open.

The OS is arch Linux with the zen kernel, wine staging. The 32bits libs are installed as well

[GalacticAdmiral]

This is wierd but i tried the latest build and used 7z to extract and got the same result as you. But when i used unzip it worked fine.

[tpkee]

This is wierd but i tried the latest build and used 7z to extract and got the same result as you. But when i used unzip it worked fine.

This is crazy but I unzipped it with unzip and it works. I didn't add it as a non steam game though, i just used protontricks-launch to use the same prefix (it's in the protontricks package)

[GalacticAdmiral]

This is crazy but I unzipped it with unzip and it works. I didn't add it as a non steam game though, i just used protontricks-launch to use the same prefix (it's in the protontricks package)

Machine spirit be praised!
Seems some archiving tools mangles the extraction for some reason.

[tpkee]

This is crazy but I unzipped it with unzip and it works. I didn't add it as a non steam game though, i just used protontricks-launch to use the same prefix (it's in the protontricks package)

Machine spirit be praised! Seems some archiving tools mangles the extraction for some reason.

Yup, anyway I found the umu which would allow us to launch the game from within the launcher. If my connection resurrects soon and I'm still in the mood I will make a linux compatible version at the very least for the mod management part itself

[tpkee]

@Shazbot sorry to bother, I did a simple patch for the launcher fixing some of the issues for Linux (enabling the continue from last savegam, load savegame and start game).

The problem is that I could test only on the dev build, the production build is broken on unix (it’s something about the renderer splitChunks, if I remove them it works just fine but obviously the make process will take too long), because the app opens but it doesn’t load any font or anything else and the JavaScript mostly doesn’t work; I’m not sure what package(s) is the cultprit tbf, there weren’t any particular logs (something about electron-log not being initialised/found but I think it’s not the only one). Another error I got, this time during the build in dev mode, is about react icons not being immediately available and then it goes away after a few seconds (I didn’t touch these files at all obviously). These aside there are no errors, just the broken build.

You can find the edits at #159