Posting this for a friend. Can anyone help out?

"I've been playing Grim Dawn from Steam for about 4 months or so but i wanted to try the GOG version, so i bought it + Crucible DLC.

I use this guide http://www.gamersonlinux.com/forum/threads/grim-dawn-guide.1032/ to install the Steam version.

I figured i could do the same with GOG's version and also install it on PlayOnLinux but i haven't been able to make it work. I'm obviously doing something wrong but i just don't know what

Note that i'm still quite the noob with Ubuntu (only been using it for about 7 months) and this is my one and only game from GOG (for now).

Help?"

Go to the second page at the bottom of the page of that guide, look for a post by booman, follow his directions. (Also post/quoting here):









I wonder if Steam is installing vcrun2015 first? I've never experienced this, and I don't think Steam requires it.

Try starting over with a brand new 32-bit virtual drive like this:

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Configure
Click New (Bottom Left)
Name the virtual drive
Select 32-bit
Next, Next, etc

Now you have a bare-bones virtual drive.

Select it on the left-side and click the Miscellaneous Tab
Click open a shell/command line button and follow the steps for vcrun2015
When its complete, stay on the Miscellaneous Tab
Click "Run a .exe file in this virtual drive"
Find your Steam Installer .exe
Follow all the steps for installing Steam
You can create a new shortcut from the General Tab
Name it Grim Dawn
Don't forget -no-dwrite -no-cef-sandbox in arguments
Click the "Install Components" Tab
Install the recommended packages in the guide
Click Wine Tab
Click "Wine Configuration"
Set Windows 7 and Mouse Checkbox
Close Configure
Now launch Steam with "Debug" not RUN
Login and Download Grim Dawn
You can actually copy the Grim Dawn folder from the SteamApps/Common directory to your new virtual drive. This speeds up the download process
Launch Grim Dawn
It should try to install dependencies like visual C and Direct X
If it still crashes, copy the debug again and post it.




I followed the same guide, and I have mostly no issues playing grim dawn from GOG. A few small hickups (freezing) but after a few seconds/minute the game continues on.

I figured out my problem: was attempting to install the GOG downloader instead of the game itself (figured i'd need to do that, instead of steam installer for Steam).

The Steam Grim Dawn guide's author mentioned i just needed to copy from any guide from a GOG game so i picked Outlaw's guide for this.

From this, i didn't even need to install vcrun 2015 and managed to enter the game.

2 things though:

1 - I can't use the same chars i use in Steam, correct?
2 - I already bought Crucible but it's not activated within Grim Dawn: how do i activate it?

Regardless, many thanks for pointing out that post from the Author: had missed it.