Summary:

Whenever I run Animal Jam Classic, via wine or wine-ge, it will crash after a second.

It will usually open the window, show a black screen, then a yellow screen, then a black screen, and crash. Sometimes it only gets up to the yellow screen.

With system wine, 2-3 times, I have been able to glimpse what I believe was the login screen before it crashes. I attempted to reproduce this so as to get the logs of this event, but after a few attempts I gave up.

I run both wine & wine-ge using Lutris. I would prefer if I didn't have to use Steam/Proton.

https://pastebin.com/2nZbv6tE - System information and logs. It will expire in a month.

Details:

Some of this is likely superfluous. Sorry! I'm not tech-savvy, and therefore am not completely sure what's relevant. But I want to be thorough.

After downloading AnimalJamInstaller.exe from lb.animaljam.com/en/download, I put it into a preexisting wine prefix of mine (There's another game in there, I don't really care if I break that game, so I just reused the wine prefix). Specifically:

~/Programs/Other-Game Name/.wine-prefix/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Animal Jam/AnimalJamInstaller.exe

In Lutris, I used "add locally installed game" to create an entry for the installer. The above was the Executable Path, and the "Wine prefix" was ~/Programs/Other-Game Name/.wine-prefix. I left Working directory empty. The runner was wine, specifically wine-ge-8-26-x86_64.

So I let that run, and it installed no problem.

Afterwards, I created a new entry for the actual game.

Runner & Wine prefix were the same as above. Starting from the virtual c drive, the Executable was /drive_c/users/meee/AppData/Local/Programs/animal-jam/Animal Jam.exe, and the Working directory was /drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Animal Jam.

As mentioned in the summary, this didn't work. It would open a window, and usually display black, then yellow, then black, and then crash. Sometimes, it would just get up to the yellow before crashing.

After this, I changed the runner to system wine, with all the other information being the same. System wine info below

LC_ALL=C dpkg --list '*wine*' | egrep "^ii|Name|==="LC_ALL=C dpkg --list '*wine*' | egrep "^ii|Name|===" ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-===================-==================-============-================================================= ii fonts-wine 9.0~repack-4build3 all Windows API implementation - fonts ii libwine:amd64 9.0~repack-4build3 amd64 Windows API implementation - library ii libwine:i386 9.0~repack-4build3 i386 Windows API implementation - library ii wine 9.0~repack-4build3 all Windows API implementation - standard suite ii wine-desktop-files 5.0.3 all Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer ii wine-installer 5.0.3 all Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer ii wine32:i386 9.0~repack-4build3 i386 Windows API implementation - 32-bit binary loader ii wine64 9.0~repack-4build3 amd64 Windows API implementation - 64-bit binary loader

The wine configuration was updated, and it ran. The results were more-or-less the same as with wine-ge. However, 2-3 times, I glimpsed what appeared to be the login screen before it crashed. I attempted to see this again so I could get a log of it, but I gave up after a few tries.

I switched the runners back and forth a few times, so the wine configuration got updated a few times.

In Concusion:

PLEASE. ON MY KNEES. PLEASE. HELP ME GET ANIMAL JAM RUNNING!!!!!!!!!!!

Or tell me if it's not possible for any reason.

Thank you for your time.

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