By Faerin Games™

Installation Guide

About MotH:

In Man of the House™, you will play as a young adult male who is living together with 3 attractive
women in a city filled with even more gorgeous girls!

Each girl has her own story line and you get to decide when and where you would like to explore and
which girl you want to pursue.

Featuring:

• Over 3500 images.

• More than 100 animated scenes.
• 30-40 hours of game-play.
• 2 (optional) jobs with their own mini-game and reward scenes.
• An in-game hint system.
• Achievements.
• Collectable cosplay images.
• And many more!

For more information about Man of the House™ or to become a Patron and download your copy today,
please visit: https://www.patreon.com/faerin

For help with Man of the House™, please visit us on Discord.

Thank you for your support!

Minimum system requirements:

Operating system: Windows 7 or better.
MacOSX.
CPU: Dual-Core Intel processor (3.20 GHz) or better.
RAM: 2GB or better.
HDD Space: at least 5GB.
Minimum screen resolution: 1280 x 720 (full screen mode)
720 x 400 (windowed mode)
Recommended resolution: 1920 x 1080 (16:9 aspect ratio).
GPU: Graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities.
 Table of Contents
About Man of the House™ 1
System Requirements 1
Introduction 2
Windows Installation 2
Linux Installation 4
Troubleshooting 3
FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) 5
FAQ for MacOS 6
Credits 7

Introduction:
This document will help you install MotH and fix the most common problems you might run into. If the
solution to your problem is not listed in this document, please join us on Discord or email me at
[email protected].

Windows Installation:
To install MotH to your computer, please follow these steps:
1. If you don't already have a copy, download and install 7-Zip specifically for your operating system (32-
bit or 64-bit) from the following website: https://www.7-zip.org/
2. Right click and open the archive file containing the game and its contents.
3. Highlight the folder containing the game.
4. Click the blue “Extract” button.
5. Type the area of your computer's hard drive where you want the files to be extracted to in the “Copy
To:” box. Ex: C:\
6. Click “OK”.
7. In Windows 7, open “Computer”, click “Local Disk (C:)”, open the “Man of the House” folder and
double click on “Man of the House.exe”.
8. In Windows 10, open “File Explorer”, open “Local Disk (C:)”, open the “Man of the House” folder and
double click on “Man of the House.exe”.

Installation on Linux

In order to run this game under Linux you will need to install Wine, and some additional applications
(Cabextract for extraction of MS fonts, and winetricks for installation of additional Windows libraries).

1. Go in terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install wine cabextract winetricks
NOTE: this command is valid for Debian based system (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint etc..). If you are using other
distributions use their package manager (pacman for Arch, zipper for SUSE, dnf for Fedora). Also, if you
don’t have to enable sudo, just log in root terminal (with su command), and write command without
prefix sudo.

2. Set wine’s environment to 32bit. Open terminal and type:

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine WINEARCH=win32 wineboot
3 Install quartz, devenum, ffdshow and corefonts with winetricks. Go in terminal and type:
winetricks quartz devenum ffdshow corefonts

When installing ffdshow use same steps as described in installation guide for Mac OSX users (see above)
NOTE: It‘s reported that devenum is not necessary for recent versions of game, but we included this just
in case. Also, some users reported K-Lite Codec Pack can be used instead of ffdshow.

4. Launch the game by open the game with wine

Troubleshooting
Here are a list of common errors/issues when trying to run MotH:

“Failed to load Mono”

This is caused when the “Mono” directory is missing or incomplete. Make sure you have extracted all of
the contents from the RAR file to a directory on your hard drive.

“The game won’t load”

If you use Citrix for work purposes, open up a command prompt (type: cmd from the run [Win7] or
search [Win10] box). Type the following command: CitrixWorkspaceApp.exe
DDLOCAL=ReceiverInside,ICA_Client,AM,SELFSERVICE,DesktopViewer,Flash,Vd3d,WebHelper,BrowserEng
ine
Please note, there must be a space between CitrixWorkspaceApp.exe and DDLOCAL

Otherwise, make sure there are no unusual characters in the folder or file names.

“Couldn’t switch to requested monitor resolution”

This problem occurs due to missing Windows updates. Depending on your operating system, you will
need to download these missing files.

Windows 7 users:
• Please visit this link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36805
• Make sure you select the appropriate update for your system (x64 = 64-bit, x86 = 32-bit) after
clicking the “Download” button.
If you don’t know where to check this, there’s an explanation in the FAQ.
• Download then install the offline update and restart your computer.

Optional
Reinstall your graphics card drivers. The drivers you install will depend on the computer you are
using. Please look at the model number or SNID (depending on brand) of your computer and
search the manufacturer's website for the correct video card drivers appropriate for your
computer and operating system (32-bit or 64-bit).

For European and South Korean users of Windows N or KN, you will also need to install the following
update:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=16546

Windows 8.1 users:

For European and South Korean users, you will need to install the following update:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40744

Windows 10 users:
Please use Windows Update to check for updates for your operating system. Make sure you download
other updates as well.

In order to download any optional updates, click “Advanced options” in Windows Update, then place a
check in the box next to “Give me updates for other Microsoft products when I update Windows” then
restart your computer once the install of updates is completed.

For European and South Korean users, you will also need to install the following update:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48231

Optional:
1. Reinstall your graphics card drivers. The drivers you install will depend on the computer and operating
system you are using. Please look at the model number or SNID (depending on brand) of your computer
and search the manufacturer's website for the correct video card drivers appropriate for your computer
and operating system (32-bit or 64-bit).
2. Disable Full Screen Optimization:
2.1 Right click on “Man of the house.exe” and select properties.
2.2 Click on compatibility.
2.3 Disable full screen optimization.
2.4 Click apply and “OK”.

Unable to see animations/black screen during animated scenes:

This could be due to a number of factors such as, but not limited to:
• Outdated video card driver.
• If you have an AMD video card installed, your video card drivers could be using Catalyst Control
Center which is known to cause problems with MotH. Search the AMD website for your
specific GPU and look for and download drivers that are either Adrenalin or Crimson. Uninstall
your drivers, restart if required and install the new drivers you just downloaded (another restart
may be required).
• Having dual video cards enabled. To check this, open “Control Panel” in Windows. If you are
using the “View by: Small icons” (recommended), click the “Device Manager” applet. Expand
“Display adapters”. It may look like similar to this:
Right click on one of the listed video cards and select “Disable”, then try loading the game. If the
animated scenes are still not displayed, follow the same steps above and disable the other video card
and enable the first one you disabled. Then try playing the game.

• Lastly, ensure that you have the latest version of the K-Lite Codec Pack installed. You can
download the “Basic” version here. There is no configuration required. Just use the default
settings.

The videos don’t play or freeze on Linux

Try disabling winegstreamer.dll and set quartz as native in Wine:
1. Start winecfg GUI. Press Alt+F2 and type: winecfg --gui. You can also launch it from console.
2. Go to tab Application -> Select Windows 7.
3. Go to tab library and add winegstreamer.dll from drop-down list
4. Choose winegstreamer.dll from list and click EDIT -> Set to deactivate.
5. Choose *quartz from list and click EDIT -> Set to native.
6. Go to tab Graphic and deactivate window-decoration.
7. (Graphic tab) Activate virtual desktop and set the size for your monitor, e.g. 1920x1080 (full screen),
1360x768 (windowed-mode).

FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

Does this game run on windows XP or Vista?

Those operating systems are no longer supported. You would need to upgrade to at least Windows 7 in
order to play future updates of MotH.

How can I transfer my savegames/Continue is locked!?

1. Open the folder of the game for the earlier version.
2. Open the “savegames” folder.
3. Use Control + A on your keyboard to select all files.
4. Use Control + C on your keyboard to copy the selected files.
5. Open the folder containing the updated version of the game.
6. Open the “savegames” folder.
7. Use Control + V on your keyboard to paste the files from the previous version into the empty
savegames folder.

I get a black screen/game freeze when launching the game!

1. Check if your virus software is not blocking the game.
2. Make sure you have extracted the game properly (as explained in the "Installation" page).

Why is my GPU temperature so high when playing the game?

Try switching on the "limit framerate to 30fps" option in the phone settings.

My savegames are missing!

This usually occurs when the game doesn't have write permission for the game directory.
1. Make sure you have extracted the game before launching it (as explained in the "Installation" page).
2. Try running the game as administrator. If this works, move the game to a different directory with
enough disk space and write permissions.
3. Make sure that you have saved your game.
• Click the down arrow on the phone.
• Click on “empty slot” (see fig1).
• Give your new save a name then click on the green check mark (see fig2).
• Now your save will be shown in the list (see fig3).

fig1 fig2 fig3

Is there a virus?!
No! Your anti-virus software is detecting a “false-positive” on the files within the game's folder. Add the
“Man of the House” folder to your anti-virus' “Exclusion” list if this occurs.

How do I find out if I'm using 32-bit or 64-bit Windows?

1. In Windows 7, go into Control Panel.
2. In the upper right-hand corner of the screen, change “View by:” to “Icons”.
3. Click “System” and look at “System type:” under the “System” sub-heading.
4. In Windows 10, go into “Control Panel”.
5. Click “System”.
6. Click “About” in the lower left-hand corner then look at “System Type:”.

FAQ for Mac

Q: Which Program can i use to extract the File?

A: any Zip-Extractor, I recommend: The Unarchiver.
Q: Where should i extract the File?
A: to any location, but make sure the hard-drive has write
Permissions!
Q: Can i use my old Saves / or my Windows Version Saves?
A: Yes, the Saves are compatible (up to Version 0.8.3)
Q: The Gatekeeper is blocking the Game.
A: left click on the App by holding the control key
- choose open and on the next window accept
- the Gatekeeper makes a last check
Q: Where is the Savegames Folder?
A: right click on the MotH App
- choose the second option (Show package contents)
- open a new tap (open the last Version and select the
Folder Savegames
- now copy past the Folder to the other Tap

Credits
First and foremost, a huge thank you to Sycho for taking the time to fix and document all these
problems.

Furthermore, thanks to the following users for their contributions:

Goobdoob, Bossapplesauce, Silvanus, cold_arctus and Thermophob

Once again, thank you to all the supporters of MotH!