[Bug 49406] New: Life is Strange - Before the Storm (GOG.com) crashes on startup

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49406

Bug ID: 49406
           Summary: Life is Strange - Before the Storm (GOG.com) crashes
                    on startup
           Product: Wine
           Version: 5.10
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

Created attachment 67484
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=67484
bash console log of the game crashing

setup:
wine-5.10-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst with all optional dependencies on current Arch
Linux
wine msiexec /i wine-mono-5.1.0-x86.msi
setup_life_is_strange_before_the_storm_1.0_(64bit)_(38099).exe (sha256:
b6ff00b0cc017743f4ac9f7213c78b3d1142cfd2094c3ef1bc2d0bb56c80953c)

The game crashes on startup and it's own error handling shows an error message
reading "Oops! The game crashed".

[Bug 49406] Life is Strange - Before the Storm (GOG.com) crashes on startup

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--- Comment #1 from WineStranger  ---
Created attachment 67485
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=67485
the game's own error log

[Bug 49406] Life is Strange - Before the Storm (GOG.com) crashes on startup

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WineStranger  changed:

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       Distribution|---                         |ArchLinux

[Bug 49406] Life is Strange - Before the Storm (GOG.com) crashes on startup

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Olivier F. R. Dierick  changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Olivier F. R. Dierick  ---
Hello,

--- quote ---
steam_api64.dll caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005)
--- end quote ---

A search for "GOG" and "steam_api64.dll" reveals that it's an application bug
(or more precisely a first day launch bug of the GOG version) :

https://www.reddit.com/r/gog/comments/gzy3wi/life_is_strange_not_launching/
https://www.gog.com/forum/life_is_strange_series#1592405929
https://www.gog.com/forum/life_is_strange_series/wont_launch_possible_fix

This bug is probably invalid for Wine bugzilla.

Regards.

[Bug 49406] Life is Strange - Before the Storm (GOG.com) crashes on startup

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--- Comment #3 from Olivier F. R. Dierick  ---
--- quote from gog forums ---
Hi all! Just an update, a few days ago I posted here and contacted GOG support.
Today I got a reply saying I should edit common.dll and change all three "C5 FD
EF" to "66 0F EF", save it, and try to launch the game. And it helped me. So
maybe some you can try this and see if it helps. Hope the rest of you fix your
problem soon!
--- end quote ---

[Bug 49406] Life is Strange - Before the Storm (GOG.com) crashes on startup

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--- Comment #4 from Olivier F. R. Dierick  ---
Hello,

GOG provides the temporary fix for the issue.

Make a backup of the file and use your favorite binary editor (GNome Hex editor
or the likes) to change the hexadecimal values as indicated.

Please let us know if this fixes your issue so that we can resolve this bug.

Regards.

[Bug 49406] Life is Strange - Before the Storm (GOG.com) crashes on startup

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WineStranger  changed:

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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |NOTOURBUG

--- Comment #5 from WineStranger  ---
It looks like the .dll layout for Before the Storm is different from the one
for Life is Strange (1).
But I did edit the file "/Life is Strange - Before the Storm/Life is Strange -
Before the Storm_Data/Plugins/steam_api64.dll" as instructed (resulting sha256:
cb21482ce34db77aa049d8aebcda4d5078ea2787938f84bae85ac3075356a418).
That does indeed solve the problem. So this is no wine issue.

I am very impressed with wine.

[Bug 49406] Life is Strange - Before the Storm (GOG.com) crashes on startup

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Gijs Vermeulen  changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED
         Resolution|NOTOURBUG                   |INVALID

--- Comment #6 from Gijs Vermeulen  ---
NOTOURBUG is reserved for bugs in 3rd party libraries that wine depends on.

Changing to INVALID and closing.