Fantasy Grounds in Ubuntu/Linux/WINE

[Jiminimonka]

I dont use virtual desktop for classic and it runs perfectly.

[Granamere]

Any update to the guide, it's two years old? It hangs on Linux Mint 19.1 and 19.2 at -- Select the install file to run, Browse to FGWebInstall.exe, Next.

Have you tried installing FGC through Steam?

[jfos]

Have you tried installing FGC through Steam?

https://lutris.net/games/fantasy-grounds/

https://lutris.net/games/fantasy-grounds-unity/

You will have to re-assign the Updater executable path for Unity after initial install... other than that, works OoB (I turn off the virtual desktop, I find it annoying)

[Jiminimonka]

Any update to the guide, it's two years old? It hangs on Linux Mint 19.1 and 19.2 at -- Select the install file to run, Browse to FGWebInstall.exe, Next.

If you download FGWebinstall and open it with Wine (whichever version is newest) it works out of the box without any tinkering.
Running it via steam using Proton also works without any settings.

[Kreigmstr]

I was able to get Wine to work with Mint 20 Cinnamon. Initial attempts with various versions of Wine from the Mint Software Manager failed. The newest version of Proton worked but performance was atrocious.

I followed the command-line process listed here: https://www.linuxbabe.com/linux-mint...inux-mint-19-1 And installed the WineHQ stable build. FG worked at this point. I believe the difference here from all my previous attempts is 32-bit windows support wasn't part of the default installs through the Mint Software Manager.

I followed up by installing Playonlinux from the Mint Software Manager. FG worked with this as well.

I then copied over existing campaigns from my old Windows install. The path on these were a little weird. I wasn't able to browse into the bottle and find the folders. I ended up searching my whole HD for the campaign folder. And I believe they were located deep in /proc.

Once the campaign's and extensions were restored. I was able get into FG and access them. All extensions worked as expected. I also tested with 2 players connected to the existing campaign. The only issue I found was that the player Tokens didnt carry over. I had one crash, but I believe it's because I tried to drag a token from one map to another instead of from the combat tracker to a new map.

[anivair]

So after an upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 Fantasy Grounds is .... half crashing? basically, it crashed when I try to run 5e games. I can run Fate just fine, but if I try to start either of my 5e games (or start a new campaign) it bombs out as follows:

Unhandled exception: page fault on write access to 0x0cc21000 in 32-bit code (0x00449876).
Register dump:
 CS:0023 SS:002b DS:002b ES:002b FS:006b GS:0063
 EIP:00449876 ESP:0032f0b8 EBP:0032f0d0 EFLAGS:00210206(  R- --  I   - -P- )
 EAX:000043f4 EBX:000000ff ECX:0cc10030 EDX:061808d8
 ESI:06180848 EDI:000043f4
Stack dump:
0x0032f0b8:  000043f4 0032f9c0 419c5ff0 2e7b9491
0x0032f0c8:  0cae0030 06180848 0032f268 0059c582
0x0032f0d8:  000043f4 00000013 00ffffff 2e7b9625
0x0032f0e8:  03049190 00000000 00000001 0032f150
0x0032f0f8:  0032f150 0132f150 0032f1cc 0082b657
0x0032f108:  00000010 00000000 0032f150 0032f158
Backtrace:
=>0 0x00449876 in fantasygrounds (+0x49876) (0x0032f0d0)
  1 0x0059c582 in fantasygrounds (+0x19c581) (0x0032f268)
  2 0x0059b44f in fantasygrounds (+0x19b44e) (0x0032f41c)
  3 0x004ff647 in fantasygrounds (+0xff646) (0x0032f600)
  4 0x004fe853 in fantasygrounds (+0xfe852) (0x0032f800)
  5 0x004ffc7e in fantasygrounds (+0xffc7d) (0x0032f9e8)
  6 0x004fe853 in fantasygrounds (+0xfe852) (0x0032fbe8)
  7 0x0057e1d3 in fantasygrounds (+0x17e1d2) (0x0032fd74)
  8 0x0057e90f in fantasygrounds (+0x17e90e) (0x0032fe64)
  9 0x004fd86c in fantasygrounds (+0xfd86b) (0x0032fea8)
  10 0x0050363b in fantasygrounds (+0x10363a) (0x0032fee4)
  11 0x0060abc5 in fantasygrounds (+0x20abc4) (0x0032ff30)
  12 0x7b454882 in kernel32 (+0x34881) (0x0032ff48)
  13 0x7b454cfc in kernel32 (+0x34cfb) (0x0032ffd8)
  14 0x7b45488e in kernel32 (+0x3488d) (0x0032ffec)
0x00449876: movb	%bl,0x0(%ecx,%eax,4)
Modules:
Module	Address			Debug info	Name (37 modules)
PE	  400000-  a8c000	Export          fantasygrounds
PE	10000000-101ff000	Deferred        d3dx9_43
PE	7a840000-7a844000	Deferred        opengl32
PE	7b020000-7b023000	Deferred        kernelbase
PE	7b420000-7b5db000	Export          kernel32
PE	7bc30000-7bc34000	Deferred        ntdll
PE	7d6e0000-7d6e4000	Deferred        uxtheme
PE	7da50000-7da5f000	Deferred        setupapi
PE	7db90000-7db94000	Deferred        winex11
PE	7e110000-7e11b000	Deferred        winspool
PE	7e160000-7e242000	Deferred        comdlg32
PE	7e2e0000-7e2e4000	Deferred        wined3d
PE	7e440000-7e444000	Deferred        d3d9
PE	7e4a0000-7e4a8000	Deferred        oleaut32
PE	7e5c0000-7e5c4000	Deferred        imm32
PE	7e5e0000-7e5e3000	Deferred        usp10
PE	7e650000-7e6ce000	Deferred        comctl32
PE	7e7d0000-7e7d4000	Deferred        iphlpapi
PE	7e800000-7e804000	Deferred        ws2_32
PE	7e830000-7e834000	Deferred        wsock32
PE	7e860000-7e864000	Deferred        rpcrt4
PE	7e910000-7e938000	Deferred        ole32
PE	7ea60000-7ea63000	Deferred        shcore
PE	7ea90000-7ea98000	Deferred        shlwapi
PE	7eb10000-7f3e6000	Deferred        shell32
PE	7f520000-7f524000	Deferred        msvcrt
PE	7f610000-7f6f8000	Deferred        user32
PE	7f830000-7f834000	Deferred        advapi32
PE	7f8c0000-7f8c7000	Deferred        gdi32
PE	7ffd0000-7ffd4000	Deferred        version
PE	eba50000-eba5b000	Deferred        mpr
PE	eba80000-eba8b000	Deferred        hnetcfg
PE	f7b70000-f7b73000	Deferred        api-ms-win-core-string-l1-1-0
PE	f7b80000-f7b83000	Deferred        api-ms-win-core-sysinfo-l1-2-1
PE	f7ba0000-f7ba3000	Deferred        api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-2-1
PE	f7bb0000-f7bb3000	Deferred        api-ms-win-core-fibers-l1-1-1
PE	f7e00000-f7e03000	Deferred        api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0
Threads:
process  tid      prio (all id:s are in hex)
00000008 (D) C:\Program Files (x86)\Fantasy Grounds\FantasyGrounds.exe
	00000030    0
	0000002a    0
	00000009    0 <==
0000000e services.exe
	00000023    0
	0000001a    0
	00000013    0
	00000010    0
	0000000f    0
00000011 plugplay.exe
	00000017    0
	00000016    0
	00000012    0
00000018 winedevice.exe
	00000020    0
	0000001d    0
	0000001c    0
	0000001b    0
	00000019    0
0000001e explorer.exe
	00000029    0
	00000028    0
	00000027    0
	0000001f    0
00000021 winedevice.exe
	00000026    0
	00000025    0
	00000024    0
	00000022    0
System information:
    Wine build: wine-5.0 (Ubuntu 5.0-3ubuntu1)
    Platform: i386 (WOW64)
    Version: Windows 7
    Host system: Linux
    Host version: 5.4.0-42-generic

If it were all of fantasy grounds crashing, that would be one thing, but I can run Fate games just fine. If it were only my old campaigns, I'd suspect a database issue, but .... this confounds me.

I would uninstall and reinstall, but I am not sure how to uninstall everything using wine, actually. I know I'd need to clear it out more or less completely to allow for a new install.

Thoughts?

[LordEntrails]

I would start by deleting 5e.pak and corerpg.pak files from your ruleset folder and running a new update. Maybe you have a corrupt ruleset.

[anivair]

I would start by deleting 5e.pak and corerpg.pak files from your ruleset folder and running a new update. Maybe you have a corrupt ruleset.

Thanks for the thought, but no dice. I also tried deleting most of my vault with no success. Same error.

[LordEntrails]

Hmm, well I can take some WAGs that can at least try and identify just what does and does not have problems

You could try new campaigns of various types, CoreRPG, Savage World, etc. Though that really is just reaching. I really have no idea what would cause one ruleset to crash and not another.

[anivair]

Is there any clean reinstall process for linux? I have my campaigns backed up well enough.

I'm guessing part of the problem is here:

E: The repository 'http ://ppa.launchpad.net/wine/wine-builds/ubuntu focal Release' does not have a Release file.

EDIT: For the record, I did a full uninstall, then cleared all all my old data plus any temp files and anything that might have been holding onto old data. I went through the whole install process again and have had exactly the same problem. Again, D&D is the only thing not working here. Other games load fine. this is weird.

So it means that fantasy grounds is running, but something about the D&D part is not. I don't know enough to know if that's a different part of the code or not.

EDIT2: For the record, after trying the command line install I cleared everything out again and tried a PlayOnLinux install and got exactly the same error again (I also didn't put in my license code just in case something in there was messing it up, but I couldn't even run the demo campaign).


EDIT3: Just to keep this as clear as possible, I tried this install again on a virtual machine on GCP running ubuntu 20.04 and I got exactly the same error as before. It'll run anything EXCEPT D&D. Weird, but consistent. I suppose it's possible that something I own (one of my modules or something) breaks D&D on ubuntu, but I can't see how, given the way they're loaded.

EDIT4: i WAS able to get it running on an ubuntu 16.04 system on GCP. I don't know if it's baked into ubuntu 20.04 or if there's something about my account and D&D, but here we are.