Take on Helicopters won't start - Bad Serial Number Given In Setup

protonopen appid 65730Game compatibility - UnofficialXAudio2

ValveSoftware/Proton#3010 · opened 2019-08-25 by infidelus · updated 2019-08-27 · 1 comments · github · game page · search this game

Iinfidelus 2019-08-25 github

Compatibility Report

Name of the game with compatibility issues: Take on Helicopters
Steam AppID of the game: 65730

System Information

GPU: GeForce RTX 2070
Driver/LLVM version: NVIDIA 430.40
Kernel version: 5.0.0
Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/infidelus/082a5496542dc91e451c240ded9c97ba
Proton version: 4.11-2

I confirm:

[x] that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
[x] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

steam-65730.log

Symptoms

Game fails to launch - product code not added to Windows registry. Splash screen loads then game crashes to desktop with Bad Serial Number error

Reproduction

Install Take On Helicopters on Linux, then launch.

I have managed to fix the issue manually by installing Take On Helicopters on Windows 10, then running regedit and exporting the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\bohemia interactive studio.

I then imported this key into the Linux version and launched the game successfully.

Rryao 2019-08-27 github

This might be the same bug that I reported in ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#6436, but it is unclear from your report whether it is the same.

There is a similar bug affecting ARMA 2, but the registry keys get reset on every start, so unless you launch the game directly, you cannot play it. :/

Nothing extracted yet.