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Minimal Elite Dangerous Launcher
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"No selected product" when running 0.6.0 with /edh4 switch on Linux/Steam #57

Closed jonathanrwatts closed 1 year ago

jonathanrwatts commented 1 year ago

I'm running Elite Dangerous through Steam on a Kubuntu 22.04 Linux environment. I own Horizons, but not Odyssey. Min-ed-launcher v0.5.4 (IIRC) was working fine with the /edh switch.

Just downloaded v0.6.0+8103a3a6, and made sure my Steam installation was up to date, and also deleted the settings.json file from ~/.config/min-ed-launcher.

When I use the /edh switch, the games loads, but on version 3.8. If I try the /edh4 switch instead, I get a No selected project error. I also tried both switches (/edh /edh4), but that just ran 3.8 again. If I leave out /autorun, I only get base ED, ED:H, or ED:A options (no ED:H 4.0), and the ED:H option runs 3.8 again.

I can't run the Frontier ED launcher, as it crashes and freezes immediately on my system.

Edit: Forgot to mention I'm using Proton 7.0-4, which I believe is the latest non-experimental version.

jonathanrwatts commented 1 year ago

Just found the log file at ~/.local/.state/min-ed-launcher.log, this line appears to be the culprit: 2022-09-17 23:34:40.564 -06:00 [DBG] Disabling 'Elite Dangerous: Horizons (4.0)'. Unable to find product at '/home/jonathan/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Elite Dangerous/Products/FORC-FDEV-DO-38-IN-40/VersionInfo.txt'

Sure enough, there is no FORC-FDEV-DO-38-IN-40 directory under the Products directory. Not sure how to proceed from here....

jonathanrwatts commented 1 year ago

Never mind, I was able to determine what the problem was and fix it. For anyone else with the same issue, I did not realize you have to install Horizons 4.0 from the Frontier ED Launcher before you can use it. I was able to get the Frontier launcher working by editing the EDLaunch.exe.config file in ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Elite Dangerous/ and changing the setting for DXCheck to False.

Edit: Bizarrely, that "fix" worked for one launch only of the Frontier launcher. The more permanent fix was to delete the ED compatdata directory and allow it to be recreated.

rfvgyhn commented 1 year ago

For future reference, #54 covers how to install 4.0 without the default launcher.