MegaHack installer doesn't run when it's supposed to

[ItzKernel]

I've used this install script on my first Arch install before (about 2021 december - 2022 january), there were no issues with it, everything worked flawlessly. I decided to do a clean install, because i wanted to switch from KDE Plasma & GNOME to awesomewm. After i set everything up, i tried to use the install script again. It didn't really work. I've tried running it in every proton version, reinstalling the game a couple of times, with both megahack v6 and megahack v7. Nothing really took effect.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/78853728/168456588-ecc243ed-bacf-4a9c-a1ee-360fd5f53e30.mp4

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[RoootTheFox]

That seems odd, going to look into this when I get time. Just out of curiosity, did you run the game once before starting the MegaHack installer?

[ItzKernel]

yep

[RoootTheFox]

First of all, sorry for the late response, I have been busy with a few things lately. Anyways, I have tried reproducing your issue, however I was not able to do so (even after using a new proton prefix by renaming the old one). You can however try using the latest version on the repo and start it with DEBUG=1 as environment variable and send me the full output of the script. You can also try installing Proton 7.0 which should work fine (the script will use either experimental or 7.0, but it will prefer 7.0)

[ItzKernel]

I pulled the changes and tried installing again with Proton 7.0 and the DEBUG=1 environment variable. Here's the result:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/78853728/169507067-c7e5ce61-f66a-4894-a2a3-d7d3ef415a13.mp4

[RoootTheFox]

This might be related to the fact that you don't have freetype2 installed on your system (wine complained, it does not do that for me) or a corrupted MegaHack installer (which would explain the page fault (?))

[ItzKernel]

i already tried reinstalling freetype2, it didn't do anything either. Wine still complains.

Btw I haven't tried using an older installer, because i have no access to those.

[ItzKernel]

So I installed lib32-freetype2 too, that wine warning is gone now, but it still crashes.

[RoootTheFox]

I honestly don't know what else could be the issue, the only thing I could think about is redownloading MegaHack, but I doubt that will work. Edit: you could however try to use normal vanilla wine to start MegaHack, by replacing everything in the line that starts with proton (except WINEPREFIX=...) with just wine (if you have it installed on your system)

[ItzKernel]

Are you sure using just wine instead of proton would do anything? Would it somehow find and recognize the GD folder?

[RoootTheFox]

If you run it in the same WINEPREFIX as your GD installation (proton) it will find it, however im pretty sure the issue you are having is a deeper issue and honestly I do not know how to fix it (I dont know how to debug wine applications)

[ItzKernel]

Okay, thanks for the help

[ItzKernel]

new proton version dropped, i can finally run it again. issue resolved

[ItzKernel]

oh right, had to call chmod 777 recursively in the gd folder to allow injecting