Man of the House Troubleshooting Help

[43pass]

So I actually had an update, but it didn't change anything As for the codecs, I have already tried installing the K-lite one, found in the thread. My DirectX version is 12, but Idk if that can complicate anything.
Anyway, thank you for the help so far!

i am getting the same problem, i have my windows 10 up to date, my drivers, DirectX are all up to date and i evened moved the file location and still get the black screen

 

[cold_arctus]

So I actually had an update, but it didn't change anything As for the codecs, I have already tried installing the K-lite one, found in the thread. My DirectX version is 12, but Idk if that can complicate anything.
Anyway, thank you for the help so far!

i am getting the same problem, i have my windows 10 up to date, my drivers, DirectX are all up to date and i evened moved the file location and still get the black screen

Did you guys checked, if your event viewer has some entry after the animation?

 

[43pass]

Did you guys checked, if your event viewer has some entry after the animation?

i got it to work i had to turn the graphic quality all the way to beautiful

 

[cold_arctus]

i got it to work i had to turn the graphic quality all the way to beautiful

Glad to hear this! Now I wonder why 'Fantastic' - setting dosen't work? Even on my low-end laptop (using Intel HD 4600) I can choose Fantastic (tested on a vm win 10 32 & 64 bit).

 

[olemumsen]

Did you guys checked, if your event viewer has some entry after the animation?

Where do I find the event viewer?

 

[cold_arctus]

Where do I find the event viewer?

right click on start icon

 

[olemumsen]

right click on start icon

Found it, but there doesn't seem to be anything related to the game

 

[cold_arctus]

Found it, but there doesn't seem to be anything related to the game

did you try this?

i got it to work i had to turn the graphic quality all the way to beautiful

 

[olemumsen]

did you try this?

Yeah, tried all the settings, but no luck

 

[cold_arctus]

Yeah, tried all the settings, but no luck

As it looks for now, you are the only one, where the animation problem persist. So, it is clearly a problem with your setting.

Try all of this including reinstalling Windows Media Feature Pack.

To eliminate - a possible - hardware failure, you would have to reinstall Windows 10 and try the game on a fresh/clean environment. (Sorry, Mate!)

Not to sure about your problem but have you tried

- Reloading the game.
-Changeing the graphics quality.
- Moveing the game to another location (preferably with write permission).
- Running as administrator (to force those permissions).
- Make sure your anti-virus software is not blocking it.
- Excluding the whole game folder and subfolders in your Antivirus
-Changing your monitor's resolution and the resolution in the drop down menu of the game to match.

Ex: If your monitor's resolution is 1920 x 1080, you should set the game's resolution to the same setting.
For everyone having the resolution error at startup, these steps might help:

1 Reinstalling your graphics drivers.
2 Disabling Full Screen Optimization:
2.1 Right click on Man of the house.exe and select properties.
2.2 Click on compatibility.
2.3 Disable fullscreen optimization.
2.4 Click apply and ok.

 

[ananditha]

maybe for users windows 10 ver 1809 like me, it can't be played because there none installer Windows Media Feature Pack, so i just give up for playing video in this game, even though it make me sad.
(sorry for my bad english)

 

[cold_arctus]

maybe for users windows 10 ver 1809 like me, it can't be played because there none installer Windows Media Feature Pack, so i just give up for playing video in this game, even though it make me sad.
(sorry for my bad english)

Try to downgrade your Windows version to 1803 and try the game again.

 

[JakoCABJ]

hello, the game is good for me, the only thing that makes it difficult for me to play is that I have the screen stretched and there are options that I can not click on, the same when I open the phone. Does anyone know if it can be solved?
Thank you

 

[goobdoob]

when i try to run it it says

"could not execute
Main_seduction-0.15a-pc\Main_seduction-0.15a-pc\lib\windows-i686\Main_seduction.exe. Is it missing?"

pls help

First, I'd suggest posting in the Main/Mother Seduction thread!
Second, I'd check your antivirus. It may have quarantined the .exe.

 

[Sycho]

@goobdoob @cold_arctus Would either of you mind looking over the revised version of the installation guide just to make sure I didn't leave anything out for Linux/Mac users, please?

Thanks, you guys!

 

[goobdoob]

@goobdoob @cold_arctus Would either of you mind looking over the revised version of the installation guide just to make sure I didn't leave anything out for Linux/Mac users, please?

Thanks, you guys!

Mac part looks good!

 

[Sycho]

Mac part looks good!

Awesome sauce! I wasn't sure if I had left something out. Thank you for looking it over for me. I greatly appreciate it.

 

[cold_arctus]

@goobdoob @cold_arctus Would either of you mind looking over the revised version of the installation guide just to make sure I didn't leave anything out for Linux/Mac users, please?

Thanks, you guys!

I would recommend some minor changes:
Red text: Things you can delete.
Green text: Something "new" to add.
Notes: Are just some background information and not for the installation guide.

"Animations work with Wine Staging (only in windowed-mode!) 3.19." -> Note: Wine-Staging is a "bleeding edge" version, updated every two weeks.
"Get the latest Mac version here:

You must be registered to see the links

" switch link to:

You must be registered to see the links

[Add: "Get the latest Linux version and install instruction here:

You must be registered to see the links

]

"For Linux users:
If you need to check to see which architecture your version of Wine is, please visit this link
for assistance:

You must be registered to see the links

If videos don’t play on Linux, try disabling winegstreamer.dll in Wine:
1. Start winecfg.
2. Add from library tab the winegstreamer.dll.
3. Choose winegstreamer.dll again from list and click EDIT -> Set to deactivate
Note:
1. Wine installs 64bit versions by default (you need to activate the 32bit architecture for 32bit packages). Starting Wine for the first time will always create a 64bit prefix/bottle, if not explicit changed by you. However, Man of the House runs on both 32bit and 64bit prefix.
2. Videos not playing part is already mentioned under "Troubleshooting/FAQ"


For Mac users:
You can download this Mac command script to launch MotH under wine:

You must be registered to see the links

.
You will need to edit it with the location of Wine Staging, or use Wine Staging 3.19 and put it in /Applications (the default installation location). To Use, unzip and drop it into the MotH folder. Double click to launch.

(FAQ part)
The videos don’t play on Linux
Try disabling winegstreamer.dll and set quartz as native in Wine:
1. Start winecfg.
2. Add from library tab the winegstreamer.dll.
3. Choose winegstreamer.dll again from list and click EDIT -> Set to deactivate.
4. Choose *quartz from list and click EDIT -> Set to native.
5. Start MotH in windowed-mode.

[Add: Wine window doesn't respond/freeze after switching to Desktop
Try unmark window-decoration in Wine:
1. Start winecfg.
2. Switch to tab "Graphics".
3. Unmark "allow window-decoration".]

 

[Sycho]

I would recommend some minor changes:
Red text: Things you can delete.
Green text: Something "new" to add.
Notes: Are just some background information and not for the installation guide.

"Animations work with Wine Staging (only in windowed-mode!) 3.19." -> Note: Wine-Staging is a "bleeding edge" version, updated every two weeks.
"Get the latest Mac version here:

You must be registered to see the links

" switch link to:

You must be registered to see the links

[Add: "Get the latest Linux version and install instruction here:

You must be registered to see the links

]

"For Linux users:
If you need to check to see which architecture your version of Wine is, please visit this link
for assistance:

You must be registered to see the links

If videos don’t play on Linux, try disabling winegstreamer.dll in Wine:
1. Start winecfg.
2. Add from library tab the winegstreamer.dll.
3. Choose winegstreamer.dll again from list and click EDIT -> Set to deactivate
Note:
1. Wine installs 64bit versions by default (you need to activate the 32bit architecture for 32bit packages). Starting Wine for the first time will always create a 64bit prefix/bottle, if not explicit changed by you. However, Man of the House runs on both 32bit and 64bit prefix.
2. Videos not playing part is already mentioned under "Troubleshooting/FAQ"


For Mac users:
You can download this Mac command script to launch MotH under wine:

You must be registered to see the links

.
You will need to edit it with the location of Wine Staging, or use Wine Staging 3.19 and put it in /Applications (the default installation location). To Use, unzip and drop it into the MotH folder. Double click to launch.

(FAQ part)
The videos don’t play on Linux
Try disabling winegstreamer.dll and set quartz as native in Wine:
1. Start winecfg.
2. Add from library tab the winegstreamer.dll.
3. Choose winegstreamer.dll again from list and click EDIT -> Set to deactivate.
4. Choose *quartz from list and click EDIT -> Set to native.
5. Start MotH in windowed-mode.

[Add: Wine window doesn't respond/freeze after switching to Desktop
Try unmark window-decoration in Wine:
1. Start winecfg.
2. Switch to tab "Graphics".
3. Unmark "allow window-decoration".]

I've added that to the revised installation guide and it's been submitted to Faerin for inclusion in the next update. You guys have been a huge help. So much thanks to the both of you.

 

[Thermophob]

I would recommend some minor changes:
Red text: Things you can delete.
Green text: Something "new" to add.
Notes: Are just some background information and not for the installation guide.

"Animations work with Wine Staging (only in windowed-mode!) 3.19." -> Note: Wine-Staging is a "bleeding edge" version, updated every two weeks.
"Get the latest Mac version here:

You must be registered to see the links

" switch link to:

You must be registered to see the links

[Add: "Get the latest Linux version and install instruction here:

You must be registered to see the links

]

"For Linux users:
If you need to check to see which architecture your version of Wine is, please visit this link
for assistance:

You must be registered to see the links

If videos don’t play on Linux, try disabling winegstreamer.dll in Wine:
1. Start winecfg.
2. Add from library tab the winegstreamer.dll.
3. Choose winegstreamer.dll again from list and click EDIT -> Set to deactivate
Note:
1. Wine installs 64bit versions by default (you need to activate the 32bit architecture for 32bit packages). Starting Wine for the first time will always create a 64bit prefix/bottle, if not explicit changed by you. However, Man of the House runs on both 32bit and 64bit prefix.
2. Videos not playing part is already mentioned under "Troubleshooting/FAQ"


For Mac users:
You can download this Mac command script to launch MotH under wine:

You must be registered to see the links

.
You will need to edit it with the location of Wine Staging, or use Wine Staging 3.19 and put it in /Applications (the default installation location). To Use, unzip and drop it into the MotH folder. Double click to launch.

(FAQ part)
The videos don’t play on Linux
Try disabling winegstreamer.dll and set quartz as native in Wine:
1. Start winecfg.
2. Add from library tab the winegstreamer.dll.
3. Choose winegstreamer.dll again from list and click EDIT -> Set to deactivate.
4. Choose *quartz from list and click EDIT -> Set to native.
5. Start MotH in windowed-mode.

[Add: Wine window doesn't respond/freeze after switching to Desktop
Try unmark window-decoration in Wine:
1. Start winecfg.
2. Switch to tab "Graphics".
3. Unmark "allow window-decoration".

Well, just to avoid confusion, we might need to separate installation instructions for Linux and Mac. While, in essence, we speak about same things (installing of wine, cabextract and winetricks), there are some differences due to, well we speak about different Operating systems.
First, Linux users use bash as default shell, so sh before commands is obsolete. Also, homebrew is not needed in Linux (it's system of porting Linux tools at MacOS, those tools are already included in Linux repos.
It would go like this:

1. Install wine, cabextract and winetricks. Type in terminal:

   sudo aptitude install wine cabextract winetricks

   Important note: this command is Debian based systems, if you use other distributions, use their package managers instead (packman for Arch, zipper for Suse, dnf for Fedora etc...). If you don't have sudo enabled, just use root terminal, and type commands without sudo prefix.
2. Install ms fonts, ffdshow devenum and quartz with winetricks

   winetricks corefonts devenum quartz ffdshow

Also, with part about disabling winegstreamer, window decoration etc... winecfg is command line interface application. In order to use gui you must start app with winecfg --gui. (Launch it with Alt+F2, or from terminal).