If you're using the dot net runtime anyway, why aren't you just running ppex AA2 in the first place? I believe it works, but I have no way of testing it or writing a guide since all hardware I have with Linux is too weak. Heroic games launcher might be easier to use with AA2 than Lutris, or so I've been told.
Probably because I don’t know it. I only recently got into AA2 and I’m still sorting out the glorious mess of information available—often conflicting, e.g., ppexcli wasn’t in the extra folder of my Mini version (v14) and I had to hunt it down myself. I’m sure there is a better setup available but that’s how I’ve managed to make it work under Linux—I’m actually amazed I managed to get it to work at all!
Thanks for the encouragement and detailed explanation. I have already tried re-installing vcredist and direct x 9, but my OS won't let me install at least one of those because it says that "something newer has been installed, too bad. Halt." It's more than likely that my other (job-use) programs need the newere stuf so I don't want to yank all that. I do have an old beater Win 7 laptop that if hobby tome permits I may re-visit this someday, In the meantime Better Repack's KKS and HS2 both ran right out of the box, so paths of lesser resistance have been discovered.
I don't know if there's a module but in the base game you can do that by going to one of them and spreading bad rumors about their lover and then doing it again for the lover if you're successful eventually they might break up if they end up hating each other enough. You could also do romantic interactions with one of them if their lover is nearby as that'll also lower their relationship and make it more likely for them to break up.
Adding the Credible and/or Eris modules to your character will also make the rumor spreading more effective.
Now I'm no expert, but I'm 99% sure that is not how Windows works at all. You either have the DLLs and they work or you don't. Microsoft keeps all their old cruft, it's even present in Win11. Not allowing you to install those packages again isn't abnormal but there is no scenario I've ever heard of where you have "newer version" and that'll cause it to malfunction. Doesn't sound like you ran Windows SFC (Microsoft has instructions for that), but you really should even if you don't plan to play this game ever. Since getting that error at all is a bad indicator for your system health and it's not the game that's causing it. It could have effects that you aren't aware of or which might hit you somewhere else.
Are you changing the clothes the creator gave them? Because if so that's probably due to them using the chubby or thin body types for the card but some clothes only work for the default body type and will cause the legs to look weird if you use one of the other two body types with said clothes. If not maybe try seeing if you can find another version of the card maybe the one you have is messed up somehow?
I leave them unchanged, it's actually usually the more popular mod cards that have this problem, and having to settle for lesser versions (if they exist) kinda ruins the experience
