Cannot join a game when running on Linux

[jfsantos]

I installed OCTGN on Linux using the steps described on the tutorial. Wine version is 1.6-rc5 (newest version from winehq repository for Ubuntu). Whenever I try to join a game (either one that I started or one started by another player), a dialog with the message "Could not start game, there was an error with the specific game" pops up and while the game window opens, I am the only player there. I can load a deck, but if I try to do something (like playing a card, for example), OCTGN crashes inside wine.

Here are the related log files (from a solo game case):
OCTGN log - http://pastebin.com/TRnEkQ0N
Wine trace - http://pastebin.com/1uN6jGvw

Let me know if any other information that I can provide could be useful.

[kellyelton]

Looks like an issue with wine displaying custom fonts.

[jfsantos]

That's correct. Editing the game definition file and removing the custom fonts made it work properly. I didn't checked before but this was already reported at the Android: Netrunner game definition repository: db0/Android-Netrunner-OCTGN#251.

At first I thought that installing the fonts to Wine's default font dir (drive_c/windows/Fonts) and fixing the game definition file (to point to the font name instead of a font path) would work, but it doesn't. Is it possible to use installed fonts instead of fonts distributed with the game? Maybe using a system-installed font could be a temporary fix for this issue (while it does not work properly on Wine).

[kellyelton]

There are no settings for it, but I'm sure it is possible. You could always just edit the file until something like that gets implemented, or a workaround is found.