The game soldiers inc, looking for options

Gps2010 · December 15, 2020, 5:03pm

I am for years now playing soldiers inc. This is a browser game and it uses flash.

What still works for me logging into the game through facebook with Chrome, like I have been for years.

Then I get a pop up which tells me that because flash is gonna stop being supported, I need to save my progress.

I already contacted support, and this is the answer I got >:(

Hello!
Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
The thing is that Plarium Play is only available for macOS High Sierra or later and Windows 7 or later.

You need to use a device running on one of the above OS.
Vadym
Player Support Team

(For the transfer of the accounts on windows ( away from facebook) you get an exe file to install.

I am looking for options. Although my pc is dual boot, so I could use windows 10, I don’t want too.

I am wondering could I set up a virtual machine ? How hard will that be ?

Also wondering about wine?

The ****** at plarium also claim they are working on a HTML 5 version, but need more time for that.
So the ymade a temp ? solution to keep using flash.
That annoys me because I know for years now that flash is gonna end. I even ones ranted about this to plarium, because I saw this coming.

nrickert · December 15, 2020, 5:40pm

I don’t have an answer, and I don’t play that game.

However, flash is still working for me with the “falkon” browser, and it doesn’t complain. There’s a site where I play a flash “sudoku”, and I used to do that with “firefox”. But firefox complaints about flash got so annoying, that I switched to “falkon”.

Yes, I assume this will eventually stop working in “falkon”. But at least I am spared the annoying complaints for now.

Gps2010 · December 16, 2020, 12:14am

Booted, while being quite annoyed windows 10.

Did the game account transfer and looked in the task manager.

They are using a flash wrapper, and I suspect some kind of web browser for there games specific.

That browser launches when you start there application. That application is 500MB and probably has flash in it.

How else can something to start a web game be 500MB?

So I need to find a way to either install that application through wine, or set up a virtual windows machine with chrome and or firefox.

After some googling on setting up a virtual machine, I am already confused.
I need to start yast, and then have 3 options.

How do I know what to choose?
Xen ? KVM ? or that third option ?

Gps2010 · December 16, 2020, 3:35am

I tried to use wine to install that program, and that failed.

I might give play on Linux a try.

Already saw other Linux users complaining on facebook, but I doubt plarium cares.

Gps2010 · December 17, 2020, 12:49am

Trying to use wine failed, trying to use play on Linux failed too.

Is there a page explaining more on setting up a virtual machine ?

Do I want KVM or Xen ?

larryr · December 17, 2020, 1:10am

I find Virtualbox is the easiest for novice to work for Windows 10.

There are ways to import your Windows 10 into VirtualBox.

It is probably a mute point as all flash ends on Dec 31, 2020 - link to end of life.

https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html

Gps2010 · December 17, 2020, 4:46am

I will try virtualbox, and see how that goes.

Been wondering if its possible to use the already installed windows 10.

This problem starts with flash ending, and Plarium.
I am playing this game for more then 4 years now, through facebook with chrome on Linux.
Firefox works too but has some minor issues. Its an online game, you play in a browser.

The solution of plarium is to keep using flash beyond the end of this year, because (their words) the HTML5 version is not fully working yet. >:(

So they build an installer to join the game. That installer is Windows and Mac only.
500 MB and I am willing to bet flash is in there.

When I looked in the task manager on win 10, I saw a flash wrapper.exe running, and plarium.exe.

I already saw other Linux users complain about this action.
I am not optimistic though, that there are enough Linux users for plarium to care.

Gps2010 · December 18, 2020, 1:57am

I have made my first virtual machine on Linux.

Then managed to install windows 10, but failed at trying to download the plarium.exe

I wonder if this is caused by the vid card setting in virtualbox. I left about every thing to default.

Gonna set it to more memory, bigger screen, and try again.

Rumours on facebook suggest people got it working through wine.
So I might also try wine again, and see why that was not working for me.

Gps2010 · December 18, 2020, 6:21pm

Does anybody know how to increase the vid card memory in virtualbox?

After some googling I found this:

vboxmanage modifyvm “winddows10” --vram 256

but
If ‘vboxmanage’ is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the package that contains it, like this:
cnf vboxmanage

What am I doing wrong ?

larryr · December 18, 2020, 7:49pm

it’s VBoxManage not vboxmanage - Linux is case sensitive

llr@LLR1:~> whereis VBoxManage
VBoxManage: /usr/bin/VBoxManage
llr@LLR1:~>

Gps2010 · December 18, 2020, 8:59pm

Thank you and LOL

I had tried capital V but not that capital B and M

Going to the usr/bin and then

VBoxManage modifyvm "Winddows10" --vram 256

Worked.

For others Winddows10 is the name I gave the virtual machine.
Funny how I only now notice that typo.

Gps2010 · December 18, 2020, 11:27pm

We have a winner

I just installed plarium play in the virtual mahine on windows 10 and it works.

Also changed a setting in VB, it now uses 4 cores.

Thing to do:

Turn of updates in win 10.

I also wonder how long it will take, before windows will start to complain, I have not yet put in a key.

I do have a key but not sure I want to use it. That key is already in use on a win10 install, also on this pc.

Gps2010 · December 20, 2020, 2:59am

The resolution does not look right in virtual-box, after I searched with google, I found I need to install (video) drivers.

http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.14/

Do I need the win exe ?
VirtualBox-5.0.14-105127-Win.exe

If you are facing full-screen resolution problem. Then you will need to install drivers for that Operating system. Oracle VirtualBox has included drivers for all OS virtual machines. The driver CD name is Virtualbox Guest additions.

Or do I go into yast and get:virtualbox-guest-x11 - VirtualBox X11 drivers for mouse and video.

larryr · December 20, 2020, 4:21am

On the virtualbox for windows menu select Device> Install Guest Additions - if it is not present it will fetch it for you.

Download and install in Windows (you get a short windows to install it in Windows 10)

Gps2010 · December 20, 2020, 3:56pm

Thank you.

Gps2010 · December 22, 2020, 4:08pm

Its working almost perfect now.

I think you should not install guest additions through yast.

I removed them in yast, then started virtualbox, and did as explained above.

Resolution is a little bit weird, but its also almost perfect now.

brunomcl · December 25, 2020, 1:14am

AFAIK Yast’s guest addition packages are only for openSUSE VMs. For W10 VMs you do as larryr wrote. It is a windows executable (.exe) that virtualbox downloads for you or, if it fails, you can download directly from oracle. Also check that you installed the extensions package, also from oracle, that gives you extended capabilities (usb, local shares, etc. IINM).

You can configure most settings from the GUI (apps>system>virtual machine in the menu or run VirtualBox from a terminal), besides installing the extensions.

You only install extensions once. Guest additions must be installed inside each VM, from the OS-specific executable/package.