In case anyone's interested, it appears that everything needed by DW2 is installed via the offline GOG installer. Evidently, the dotnet version 472 doesn't need installed with winetricks to register the libraries correctly. Everything just works.

The only thing I had to install with Winetricks was ...

I pulled my hair out, trying to keep DW1 from crashing. I had bought it on a GOG sale and was eager to try it out, but the game kept crashing.

I ended up buying DW2 and DLC on the GOG sale, too. I'm absolutely floored by how easy it was to get the game to run on Wine 9.5. The game looks amazing so ...

I suppose the followup question is: Is the expanded mod a required component? It's the expanded mod's DistantWorld.exe that I'm having a problem with under Wine, not this mod.

Hey friend!

The intent of that step is to make sure the mod loads properly. When you are in-game and activate a theme...the game will hang...spending up to 20-30 seconds activating the theme. The game will finally un-freeze...and you will see a message at the top along the lines of "Active Theme ...

I'm running the GOG version using Wine. I noticed I had to run winetricks dotnet48 to get the new version of DistantWorlds.exe to work. However, the universe screen is completely empty, i.e. no stars, planets, ships, etc.

Are there any additional requirements besides dotnet48 for this expansion?

I'm confused about the following step..

Step 3: Exit DWU and restart. (Yes, this is necessary). If you don't exit and restart, not all of the theme assets will be loaded. Just a quirk of DWU.

I'm running the GOG version using Wine. When I change the theme and restart DWU, it doesn't remember the ...