New having a problem with where to put the homm3 data

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#1

I installed vcmi on my linux box, and everything seems to work. Though whenever I click on start game, it complains that I did not install my homm3 data in the correct location, I basically did what the wiki suggested, but that does not work.

I installed the flatpak version it seems to be 0.99
any help is much appreciated as I find this whole project very exciting, I always liked homm3 though I haven’t played so much but the amount of content available here is simply staggering.

Any help is appreciated, thanks

#2

Hi.
Unfortunately I’m not exactly familiar with flatpak’s so I’ll have to try and guess a few things…

I assume that you’ve copied H3 files into directory
~/.var/app/eu.vcmi.VCMI/data/
Meaning that you’ve ended up with directory structure like this:

~/.var/app/eu.vcmi.VCMI/data/data/*
~/.var/app/eu.vcmi.VCMI/data/Maps/*
~/.var/app/eu.vcmi.VCMI/data/Mp3/*

If this does not works then try moving data one level further into
~/.var/app/eu.vcmi.VCMI/data/vcmi
In this case your directory structure will have to look like this:

~/.var/app/eu.vcmi.VCMI/data/vcmi/data/*
~/.var/app/eu.vcmi.VCMI/data/vcmi/Maps/*
~/.var/app/eu.vcmi.VCMI/data/vcmi/Mp3/*

If this won’t help either then try running… this command I think. And post its output here.
flatpak run eu.vcmi.VCMI --command="vcmiclient --version"
This should show you list of directories that vcmi is looking for, including “game data” and “user data” directories which vcmi check for H3 files.

#3

I will try this, thanks.

#4

and I am happy to report that this totally worked, thanks :slight_smile:

#5

So what was the correct location for H3 data for flatpak?
~/.var/app/eu.vcmi.VCMI/data/vcmi?

#6

Yeah, when I put the data in data/vcmi it loaded it fine, though it did not actually start the game, I can get to start a scenario selecting towns and such, but when I try to start it closes. But I will try to see what I can figure out what to do.

#7

You may try checking vcmi logs which should be in
~/.var/app/eu.vcmi.VCMI/cache/vcmi
Judging from description - vcmiserver crashed.
If you upload logs here I can check them out.