Still present the black text color bug with Wine 1.2-rc2 by marco on Tuesday June 1st 2010, 19:06 Still present the black text color bug with Wine 1.2-rc2 [post new] [reply to this]

Successfully running on Kubuntu 10.04 by labosch on Sunday May 16th 2010, 5:37 The game runs smoothly on my rather old system with Kubuntu 10.04 and wine 1.1.42. What I did: 1. Installed the game via CD 2. Patched it to version 2.0a 3. Fetched a NoCd-exe 4. Selected "Emulate Virtual Desktop" in winecfg/Graphics as Miaz Akemapa suggested (otherwise the game crashed at startup) 5. Disabled "Desktop Effects" in Kubuntu's System Settings as this makes the mouse flicker Minor problems: 1. Black font in main menu 2. Scrolling the map in the game is a bit choppy The rest works perfectly, I have no performance issues or sound problems. [post new] [reply to this]

DirectDraw Error by William Haggie on Monday February 22nd 2010, 13:01 I saw in the test that someone had managed to get AoE running on Snow Leopard under Wine, I just get the error "Check your graphics card is compatible with DirectDraw" does anyone know how I can get around this? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: DirectDraw Error by William Haggie on Saturday March 6th 2010, 17:20

Ubuntu 9.10 ; Wine 1.1.31 ; Age of Empires II not running! by Ery Hartanto on Saturday January 16th 2010, 9:37 I have Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic, with Wine 1.1.31, I am having problem running Age of Empires II. I copied the whole directory of Age of Empires II to my program files under Wine. When I run it from "browse" I am having this "Could not initialize Graphics System. Make sure that your video card and driver are compatible with DirecDraw. Can somebody enlighten me on this? How do I run Age of Empires II under my Ubuntu? Thanks! [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Ubuntu 9.10 ; Wine 1.1.31 ; Age of Empires II not running! by anton on Thursday February 18th 2010, 13:29

Working well (with sound too) by Miaz Akemapa on Tuesday January 12th 2010, 3:36 I have this game working well with sound and no lagged. running this on window mode at ubuntu 9.10. open winecfg, select Graphics tab, and check "Emulate a Virtual Desktop" and type your desktop size. but when i run this on fullsize (not window mode), it always restart my desktop. [post new] [reply to this]

Sound problem by Sasan Rose on Thursday August 27th 2009, 14:52 I have strange sound problems. When i run the game i have sound in menus but when i start the game i don't have any sounds. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Sound problem by Wellington_Jr on Sunday December 6th 2009, 8:39

runing fine, out of the box by Andurian on Saturday January 3rd 2009, 2:58 all i did was add -nostartup at the 'command' section of the shortcut(the one at the desktop). decent gameplay speeds too. for further info, check for my comments on the conquerors section. cheers~ [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: runing fine, out of the box by Samu Voutilainen on Saturday January 3rd 2009, 20:01

• RE: runing fine, out of the box by Andurian on Saturday January 3rd 2009, 22:41

• RE: runing fine, out of the box by Samu Voutilainen on Sunday January 4th 2009, 2:37

• RE: runing fine, out of the box by Andurian on Sunday January 4th 2009, 14:20

Game installs/runs but very choppy. by Alan on Monday December 29th 2008, 21:46 I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid and I have Wine 1.1.11 and the game and the game installer works under Windows XP emulator. The game is very choppy and so slow as to be unplayable. The cursor also blinks in some menus. The game installs and runs, but it is not playable. [post new] [reply to this]

Game does not run by Matt Smith on Friday August 15th 2008, 7:30 I am using openSUSE 10.3 with PulseAudio. The game installs ok. When I run the game the splash screen is displayed for several seconds, the following lines are printed in the console, but the game doesn't start and no errors: ALSA lib pcm.c:2106:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so ALSA lib pcm.c:2106:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet ReadStyleSheet: skipping optional destination err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet ReadStyleSheet: skipping optional destination err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet ReadStyleSheet: skipping optional destination err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet ReadStyleSheet: skipping optional destination err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet ReadStyleSheet: skipping optional destination I have tried full and typical installs, with and without no CD crack, with and without the dll patch. What can I do? [post new] [reply to this]

RE: Fedora 8 wine 9.56 Intel X3100 age of conquers fails to start by Michel Aartsen on Thursday March 27th 2008, 14:39 Hi Patrik, I've got the same issue, but then with BF1942. So it looks like a bug in Wine and not in the game. Can anybody tell us what the problem can be?? [post new] [reply to this]

Slow game play not linked to CPU or RAM! by Barry Bingham on Sunday February 10th 2008, 12:37 I've been trying to play AoE2 & Conquerors on and off for some time using Crossover and vanilla Wine. Under 0.9.54 play is as good as it's ever been, but is still compromised by the slowdown that occurs when you select a building (especially town centre or castle) or a unit (especially military units). Until recently I've played using an AMD 3000 64 bit CPU and 1GB of RAM and assumed, as others have said that the problem was that for some bizarre reason this elderly Win98 era game was eating masses of power and RAM. I've now played the game on a tiny Koolu micro PC with an AMD Geode 800 processor and just 512MB RAM running Ubuntu Feisty. To my amazement it's pretty much at the same playability state as on the vastly more powerful tower system: meaning it looks great but cannot be properly played because of the slowdown on unit selection..... Anyone got round this, or any idea what the cause might be?? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Slow game play not linked to CPU or RAM! by Thomas Beimel on Wednesday September 10th 2008, 5:05

Can run without CD crack by Brad on Wednesday January 23rd 2008, 14:20 I got it to run without the nocd crack. I had to Configure Wine, and under drives, make sure that the cdrom is there, and that type is CD drive. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Can run without CD crack by Alcudra on Thursday February 21st 2008, 10:55

Some buttons missing by Thomas on Friday November 30th 2007, 16:42 When a military unit is selected, there should be several buttons available in order to change their behaviour eg. "do not attack" or "agressive". These buttons are just not there. As allready recognized by my precedator, when a building is selected, the game becomes really slow. Probably those two problems are related one to the other. Might be difficult to backtrace. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Some buttons missing by fenerli on Wednesday December 12th 2007, 23:05

slow down by roberto zandonà on Friday November 2nd 2007, 1:43 there are strange slow-down when i create units and the building is select if you create many units (units go in the queue) the game become unplayable but if you select a unit the slow-down disappear similar behaviuos in starcraft [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: slow down by Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes on Thursday November 8th 2007, 1:44

by James on Sunday August 12th 2007, 11:26 Perfect installation. Followed the steps given on this page correctly. Applied the multiplayer DLL fix and the removal of that one DLL. Yet whenever I launch the game, I get the following error: "Could not initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video card and driver are compatible with DirectDraw." I am using Ubuntu 7.04 and I have the nVidia Accelerated Driver installed correctly and it is working. All other programs and packages are working correctly. I also have the latest Wine version (0.9.43) and have installed it correctly as well and configured it, as it too is working properly. Any suggestions? I see this use to be a bug for this game, but it has since been labeled as "FIXED". If I don't get a solution though, I'm going to reopen it with my information. Thanks in advance. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: by James on Sunday August 12th 2007, 17:52

• THE SOLUTION by Hermann Höhne on Saturday October 13th 2007, 12:48

the screen keeps scrolling up by jeremy on Saturday May 5th 2007, 20:36 Everytime I start a game on my brand new Age of Empires 2 the screen scrolls diagnally up. Its making me real mad, I even downloaded a demo to my labtop and it did the same thing. Is there anyway i can fix this???????? [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: the screen keeps scrolling up by Brynley on Saturday May 5th 2007, 22:12
• RE: the screen keeps scrolling up by Thomas on Tuesday March 11th 2008, 20:15

Added On by Brynley on Friday April 13th 2007, 15:21 Also I am running wine version 0.9.29 (as it says in winecfg) and have installed crack and installed 2.0a update please help [post new] [reply to this]

Help Me!! by Brynley on Friday April 13th 2007, 15:17 I am running suse 10.1 install works fine but when i run this command in terminal: wine empires2.exe it gives me this error message: wine: could not load L"c:\\windows\\system32\\empires2.exe": Module not found can someone help me [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Help Me!! by linux-planet@gmx.net on Friday August 31st 2007, 7:08

by Matthias Deissenberger on Sunday April 8th 2007, 9:27 Hi I installed the the game today, added the no cd crack, but nevertheless I can't get it running. I always get the following errors: fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 110 (SPI_GETSHOWIMEUI) fixme:d3d:IWineD3DDeviceImpl_GetAvailableTextureMem (0x168de8) : stub, simulating 64MB for now, returning 64MB left fixme:ddraw:IDirectDrawImpl_SetCooperativeLevel (0x163810)->((nil),00000008) fixme:d3d:IWineD3DStateBlockImpl_Release Releasing primary stateblock And a popup saying that the Graphicsystem can't be initialized.I'm using Opensuse 10.2 and wine 0.9.34 On an older Suse Version it worked last year. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: by Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes on Sunday April 8th 2007, 13:03

Can't get it running by Matthias Deissenberger on Sunday April 8th 2007, 9:20 Hi I installed the the game today, added the no cd crack, but nevertheless I can't get it running. I always get the following errors: [post new] [reply to this]

Multiplayer doesn't work by Martin Klapetek on Saturday March 17th 2007, 16:40 Hi, I've added those libraries stated above, but I can't get the multiplayer runing. I can play the singleplayer (slowly, but that's not the problem here), but when I choose the multiplayer, I can't see any LAN games. When I try to create a LAN game, no one sees me and if I click on the 'IP' button, it shows that my IP is 127.0.0.1. I've also tried Internet TCP/IP, when I create, it is the same (I have public IP and it still shows 127.0.0.1) and no one can connect to me, nor can I connect to anyone. Furthermore, I tried it with compiled hamachi...no effect. I'm using wine 0.9.32, Hamachi the latest release for linux and Fedora Core 6. What can I do to get the multiplayer running? Thanks in advance [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Multiplayer doesn't work by Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes on Saturday March 17th 2007, 17:32

• RE: Multiplayer doesn't work by Martin Klapetek on Thursday March 29th 2007, 13:21

It works well by Dark Apostrophe on Sunday December 31st 2006, 9:31 The game works pretty well. As I said in the test data form, it runs but crashes once in a while, though probably due to bugs in the software. Initially, I needed to fiddle around with winecfg to get it running properly, but other than that, the only thing I had to do was find a crack. I haven't tested multiplayer. Here's a link to a screenshot: img235.imageshack.us/img235/2518/aoe2rz1.jpg Running Debian Etch, kernel 2.6.18.3-k7, KDE 3.5. [post new] [reply to this]

Font distortion fixed. by Robert Schuster on Monday October 16th 2006, 12:16 As of Wine 0.9.23 the problem that ingame fonts where unreadable is fixed. [post new] [reply to this]

by federico on Tuesday July 18th 2006, 20:35 I tested AOE2 v2.0 on slackware 10.2 with wine0.9.17, the game runs very good in single player (only with some small audio bugs). And Multiplayer works very good too. you have to download dxplay dlls and set as native in winecfg(for more info read at the top of the page). Also Age of empires 2: the conquerors 1.0c runs great [post new] [reply to this]

yeah by thunderduck3141 on Sunday July 16th 2006, 22:03 tried windows versions 98 200 ans xp my graphics card is an nvidia geforce fx 5700 le (i know, oooold) but i know its supported, i have run the game in cedega, but i disapprove of transgaming so im quitting them and going for wine [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: yeah by Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes on Monday July 17th 2006, 8:42

Wine 20050419 by Debarshi Ray on Wednesday July 27th 2005, 16:39 I used the Wine released in April 2005 to run Age of Kings and the Conqueror's Expansion. Everything is ok except the fonts which are black and so the stockpile can not be seen. The fonts are missing in other places too. Moreover I miss the sound and the multiplayer. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Wine 20050419 by Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes on Wednesday December 21st 2005, 11:24

Age of empire II by oneforall on Saturday July 9th 2005, 5:16 Its installed 20050211 cvs But its the sound thats a problem lots of echo wich slows the game down If you goto the games ooption and turn off the sound it plays a bit better. But the sound is good for warning etc. I noticed that glib with nptl it cut down the sound probnlem a bit . eg:as the gqmeloads the load bar goes farther before you hear the echo. and it stops for a bit and starts again. Before when it started about have loaded it never stoped This was a 2 ganme pack Gold Edition it has Conquerors expantion. couldn't get that to install [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Age of empire II sound problems by linux-planet@gmx.net on Friday August 31st 2007, 6:50

Update by Ivan Leo on Friday December 3rd 2004, 16:32 At time of writing (03/12/2004) the installation program works, and the trial version runs correctly (but slowly) in single player mode. More work is needed for multiplayer, and the full version fails because of copy protection. [post new] [reply to this]

• RE: Update by Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes on Saturday May 13th 2006, 14:42