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What works
everything tested, especially:
sound
starting a singleplayer game
saving and loading
What does not
no errors were found
What was not tested
multiplayer
Additional Comments
With wine 1.3.30 this game works considerably well for the first time. The sound and the mouse pointer sutters in exactly the same way as in Mircosoft Windows XP (tested with game version 1.31 and unofficial mouse pointer patch, unplayable without on Windows). Even the occasional graphics corruption looks the same (someone did a great job here - even Microsoft's glitches are now simulated by wine). However, you need to disable wine's hardware pixel shader support (in winecfg's graphics tab) when used on a system with the Intel i915 driver (it looks like a known bug or incompatibility). Closing the game through it's menu crashes the game just like in Windows. The game needs approximately three times as much CPU compared to Windows, but wine amazingly creates multiple threads so even a slow (but multicore) Intel Atom CPU can run the game at decent speed (and wine performs way better than dosbox for this game). It looks like the expensive graphic operations are now handled by D3D surface blitting, which unfortunately floods the console (messages can be suppressed with WINEDEBUG="-all").
Although playing Moo2 on wine is possible, the game is best played on dosbox
It would be best if you patch the game using this; PATCH
The patch only provides an updated dos executable, and you can use the dosbox built in ipx to tcp/ip emulator for multiplayer (which is very quick for turn processing).
To put it in perspective, Moo2 on wine is silver rating, game would get platinum on dosbox.
HOWTO work around the input problems: Use Wine 0.9.15
Since Wine 0.9.16 there are serious input (mouse+keyboard) problems in several menus that make the game practically unplayable.
As a workaround, Wine you can compile Wine 0.9.15 yourself and use that version.
Due to a different bug, a virtual desktop has to be used when running Master of Orion 2 with Wine 0.9.15: Run "winecfg" and enable "Graphics/Emulate a
virtual desktop".
If the window is too small, it can be made fullscreen by starting Master of Orion 2, and then in a different shell "xrandr -s 640x480". The resolution can be changed back with "xrandr -s 0".
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dos version
by mike on Friday April 3rd 2009, 8:32
QUACK!
by luke on Saturday January 10th 2009, 1:29
I have come to the conclusion that this mouse cursor lagging like crazy problem really sucks. There seems to be no perfect fix out there, but there is this:
lordbrazen.blogspot.com/2005/01/download.html
Grab the unofficial mouse patch and apply it. It didn't fix the problem for me, but it made it way better, to an (almost?) playable level. YMMV
Right click the mouse when it's stuck
by Michael Downey on Friday January 9th 2009, 23:25
Are you right clicking the mouse when you get the hangs? You just right click and then you should get a new pop up which then seems to unhang the mouse. Then move the mouse to where you want it to be and then click twice.
It's not great but it does work at least for me. I've played a few games all the way through now.
1.1.12 is pretty good
by Michael Downey on Monday January 5th 2009, 14:19
Using 1.1.12 it looks like the mouse hanging issue is a lot less. It is still there but you can right click and then move the mouse when it does happen. Definitely playable now!!!
Workaround version 0.9.15 does not work for me
by Florian S on Friday October 17th 2008, 10:18
wine-0.9.15 generally works, however the following is a reliable way to produce a crash/segfalut:
- hire a ship commander
- click on the leader button in the main screen
- click on the ship command button at the top
The above procedure under the same savegame does work with orion2.exe under dosbox, and with wine-1.0 (but of course the rest of the game doesn't work in wine-1.0)
Problems with newest Wine
by Leslie on Tuesday September 27th 2005, 15:16
Beginning with the early 2005 releases of Wine, when running MOO2 the sound tends to stutter badly, and it locks up if you so much as move the cursor too quickly.
