jmnorman

Hey, what's up? I got into flight sims through arcade style games like Ace Combat and now I'm investigating to see what's out there. I've been playing a lot of nuclear option, and trying and failing to figure out Falcon BMS. I discovered I don't yet really enjoy WW2 or earlier stuff, and I guess I'm trying to find something of a survey sim to play. I'd really like to play Strike Fighters 2 but Thirdwire's store went down just as I decided to buy it. Now I'm trying to see if I can get into Wings Over Europe.

The only possible insight I have at the moment is that some of the wine .dll files may be different than the native windows dlls. I downloaded what I think was a native windows version of icuuc.dll to solve a compatibility issue with opentrack running in proton, and the .dll ended up being different than the version that wine distributes, and crashed when I tried it. You said you pulled the d3d compiler from a Windows install ... Maybe look at messing with protontricks or pulling dlls from a default wine prefix. There are a lot of convenience functions in protontricks for loading windows components and dlls. I don't know if you've tried that or not yet. Also, have you tried to launch the game with wine instead of proton? Sometimes that gives different outcomes which can be insightful. I am interested in getting sf2 running on my system sometime but I don't get have a copy and the website is down right now... I will follow this with interest and maybe join you in this pursuit if I ever snag a copy.