+ Роман Трахтенберг: В поисках идеального анекдота

Hello everyone,

I post this in an effort to both receive help and help anyone in the rare chance decides to play Роман Трахтенберг: В поисках идеального анекдота.

So these are the instructions I followed to play the game:

* On a Macbook (Specs added at the bottom of this point), I installed Windows XP SP3 (Spanish version) on a VMWare virtual machine (VMWare Fusion Professional 25H2 (24995814)) and installed the guest additions (so I can drop files to it). Then, I installed the game through the ISO, installed the 1.1 patch and finally installed a NoCD patch. After that, I set the non-Unicode language to Russian so text isn't jumbled (Àèêöóâ). Then, I start up the game, finding these messages once I get past the graphical setup previous to the actual game:

Message on Spanish Windows XP:
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Видеосистема не поддерживается
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Отсутствует поддержка отрисовки в текстуру
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Aceptar
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Ошибка инициализации!
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Видеокарта не поддерживается приложением или установлена старая версия драйвера.
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Aceptar
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After that, the game closes.

* For the Linux machine, I used a Steam Deck (early LCD Model), installed the game through Proton Experimental, and spoofed the GPUs stats to a (VideoPciVendorID=DWORD 10de) (VideoPciDeviceID=DWORD 402) (980 Ti). I obtained the following errors:

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Main pbuffer not created
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Ошибка инициализации!
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Видеокарта не поддерживается приложением или установлена старая версия драйвера.
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Aceptar
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* But, if I started up the game using UMU-Proton-9.0-3.2, even though the setup menu would appear offscreen on my setup (1024x768 simulated desktop) the game would start normally and without issues.

* For the Windows 11 setup, I used a Dell Latitude 3410 with the specs indicated at the bottom, and attempted to transfer the files normally like they're on a zip file without installing the game, thinking that I could hypothetically install some program that came with the game and break the computer. I received the exact same errors as the XP VM, and used Administrator + Windows XP Service Pack 3 compatibility mode.



As seen here, I managed to get the game going in one configuration. Windows is still not working and will probably not be nice and user-friendly (inside of torrenting standards I'd think) to make the user install Linux to use a Proton fork to play Роман's game.

 

I use VMWare Workstation, which cannot do passthrough.

 

Correction: it's VMWare Fusion (Workstation is only for Windows, Fusion is the MacOS version).