1y ago

Running Spellforce 2 Shadow Wars

I'm attempting to run Spellforce 2, Shadow Wars from the CD's, but running into some issues.

It installed nicely enough using lutris and wine. When I attempt to run the game, however, I get the following in t the log:

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wine: RLIMIT_NICE is &lt;=20, unable to use setpriorty safely
Initial process has exited (return code: 0)
All processes have quit

Not sure where to go from here. I notice it's available as part of a package of other Spellforce games from Steam, though not quite sure how they're pulling it off.

Any pointer is useful.

Thanks in advance.

3 comments

You can check if there is any dependency in the lutris version that you may have to install too.
https://lutris.net/games/spellforce-2-shadow-wars/
You also can run your program using a verboser method since the returned code 0 means the program had run successfully so it's tricky https://wiki.winehq.org/Debug_Channels
- Thanks! Increasing verbosity should be useful.
  I'll post back when i try that.

I got more info with increased verbosity:
wine client error:150: write: Bad file descriptor 01a8:err:ntoskrnl:ZwLoadDriver failed to create driver L"\\Registry\\Machine\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\lirsgt": c0000142
A little searching found that this is a copy protection file. Interesting because I copied the disc's files to a directory and installed from there. Wondering if installing from the discs themselves would fare better.