New to lutris and having issues with some games

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Hi, I’m pretty new to Lutris and running non-native Linux games on Linux. Previously, I had two computers, a mini computer running Linux and an Asus Laptop running MS Windows. The laptop died and seeing I only used it for playing non-native Linux games, I barely took notice of it as I rather run Linux native games as my gaming “appetite” has waned over the years (barely enough time).

So, I have some old games on the hard drive from the laptop and I’ve read that I can use quite a few of them using Lutris. So, I fired up the package manager (running Kubuntu 26.04). installed Lutris, followed the getting started thread on here and had it configured. (Steam and Wine). I set WINE to use GE-Proton latest, and installed a basic word puzzle game. That worked fine. I smiled, looks like there’s progress…but then I hit the wall when I went to copy out one of my games from the laptop hard drive.

I copied the game (Shale Hill Secrets) to my default folder in home I set up for Lutris, pointed executable section to match where it was, set GE-Proton latest for the runner and added the dll override as pointed out on one website. Game starts up, decided no need to copy my old profile out so I created a new one and started the game. Game crashes once I click to advance with the following error

############################################################################################
ERROR in action number 1
of Alarm Event for alarm 10 for object oVNE3:
variable_struct_get argument 1 incorrect type (undefined) expecting a Number (YYGI32)############################################################################################
gml_Script_scrGetLocalizedString (line 20)
gml_Script_scr_txr_vne3_say (line 24)
gml_Script_txr_thread_resume (line 172)
gml_Script_scrVNE3ThreadResume (line 18)
gml_Script_scrVNE3ThreadResume (line 107)
gml_Object_oVNE3_Alarm_10 (line 18)

I can’t get beyond. I know I can create a Windows VM but seeing how 3D sucks with IGPU’s (mine is a Raedeon IGPU), I’d rather fight through this to learn.

What am I doing wrong?

System specs:
Operating System: Kubuntu 26.04 LTS
KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.6
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.24.0
Qt Version: 6.10.2
Kernel Version: 7.0.0-31-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5800H with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (29.3 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics

Any help would be appreciated.

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Is this right after submitting info? There aren’t any reports on protondb for this game, but it is listed as “Steam Deck Playable” with a caveat that you may have to use the on-screen keyboard to get text to enter correctly.

That error there is a variable that isn’t set correctly (for whatever reason).

https://www.protondb.com/app/1793440

Sorry, that was all I could find.

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No, it’s not using steam deck. It was listed on Lutris website as playable or rather 21 users having the game so I assumed that it was playable. Could be my misinterpretation as there’s no other information on there. Thanks for replying, though.

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On a side note, I’ve noticed the options.ini file pointing to the following VisualStudioDir=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\Common7\Tools\VsDevCmd.bat

I’m wondering if that’s the issue at hand here. If I succeed, I’ll post back here.