I have installed lutris… and now I have no idea on how to install these games. I went to the main page for the games and clicked on download install script, but all I get is a new web page with a bunch of programing looking crap. Nothing downloads. What do I do with this install script and how do I download it?
Keep in mind that I already have the files for these games and that I do not wish to download the file again.
This is weird. Before I read your post I clicked on “add game” (the plus sign thing), then I set it to use wine, then I selected my TLJ exe file, then I hit play and it installed it. With some errors at the end. Then I hit play again and it started reinstalling it… I am confused by this.
For the moment this game does not work well with Wine, you should use ResidualVM instead. It is easy to install it, you can download build on their web page.
I really do not understand this… if I do as I said above, but hit play at the end of the instillation, it will play, but the game is tiny, and doesn’t cover the whole screen.
Why does it need to install every time though? I mean, once installed I should just have to hit play. But it installs every time I hit play.
When I click on “add game” in residual vm, it will not let me select the TLJ executable. The TLJ executable is the file at the top of the list, and I tried hitting choose anyway, but it tells me it could not find any game in the specified directory.
I really do not understand this… if I do as I said above, but hit play at the end of the instillation, it will play, but the game is tiny, and doesn’t cover the whole screen.
Do not use wine to play this game
Why does it need to install every time though? I mean, once installed I should just have to hit play. But it installs every time I hit play.
Because you have to change the path to the executable: not to the setup file but directly to the main exe.
When I click on “add game” in residual vm, it will not let me select the TLJ executable. The TLJ executable is the file at the top of the list, and I tried hitting choose anyway, but it tells me it could not find any game in the specified directory.
You should first install TLJ with wine then add the install folder to ResidualVM, ResidualVM does not recognize setup file but the game folder.
How do I install TLJ with wine directly? Should I just use POL? I have no idea how to use wine directly. And what folder is considered the game folder?
to install TLJ with Wine, you can open a terminal where your setup file is located and type:
wine yourgamesetup.exe
or just use Lutris ad you did before.
Okay. I installed it with wine by typing “wine setup_the_longest_journey_142_23143.exe” (this was after removing the “()” parenthesis from the name of the exe file), and it seems to have installed.
Then I set residual vm to use the file under .wine, drive c, gog games, The Longest Journey… and I selected The Longest Journey folder and it said it could not find a game.
Then I set residual vm to use the file under .wine, drive c, gog games, The Longest Journey… and I selected The Longest Journey folder and it said it could not find a game.
What is the ResidualVM version you are using?
You need a recent RVM build for TLJ.
Download and install a daily build (unstable) here: https://www.residualvm.org/downloads/
And what do I do with the file when I download it? I tried the tar.gz file. I extracted it… but I don’t see an installer file. I tried clicking on the configure file and allowing it to run as an executable, but nothing seems to have happened except some new files were added to the folder.