[bug] Saint's Row 2

[Forge321jtm]

Game name

Saint's Row 2

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• The game is in the supported games list.

What happened?

First time doing this, maybe I'm doing something wrong. I followed the instructions to the letter, tried to launch the game. First few times, popup came up. If I clicked "yes," the game crashed. If I clicked "no," the game launched, but would hang on the login screen. When I went to poke at something, the popup stopped appearing, and it appears to be defaulting to "no." I'm unsure what to do about this.

Game version

Latest

Game release

Steam

OpenSpy DLL Name

dinput8.dll

OpenSpy DLL Version

1.0.83

Additional game information

No response

Relevant log output

[ThisNekoGuy]

In my case (also the Steam version), I got no confirmation popups but attempting to login after creating an account resulted in a login error after it tries for about 5-10 seconds.

[anzz1]

This game definitely used to work fine, but maybe something changed. I just checked SteamDB that the game client hasn't updated since 2016 so possibly something changed server-side that broke it. Or in case you're using Windows 11, that's something that could have changed too.

[Forge321jtm]

Or in case you're using Windows 11, that's something that could have changed too.

I'm using Windows 11, but Neko is on Linux. Yet both of us are having similar issues.

[anzz1]

Linux? How? Through Lutris or Wine or something? I have no idea if the client works through an emulation layer but it definitely wasn't designed to so I'd be quite surprised if it does.

[ThisNekoGuy]

Linux? How? Through Lutris or Wine or something? I have no idea if the client works through an emulation layer but it definitely wasn't designed to so I'd be quite surprised if it does.

Through Proton on Steam, yes. Valve has officially supported it (effectively a Valve wine fork) for about... I want to say 6 or more years now, but I can't remember the exact number off the top of my head. Generally, with these kinds of library mods, we just have to add something like:
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dinput8=n,b" ℅command%
to the advanced launch options (this is the case for SR2) in order for it to load.
(Wine doesn't always load foreign libraries by default unless the library override variable is set; it depends)