This is the basic version of Empire Earth, without the AOC expansion.
There are 3 versions:
1.0, 1.04 and 2.0. These verions don't make any noticeable difference in Wine.
The 2.0 version is NOT Empire Earth II
Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)
What works
-Installation
-Patches
-Main Menu
-Keyboard
-Music
-Multiplayer lobby
-In-game appears to work
What does not
-Mouse
What was not tested
-LAN and internet gaming
Additional Comments
Tested using retail version patched to 2.0
Requires winetricks dmusic for music support (music can be disabled by setting HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SSSI\Empire Earth\Music Enabled to "0")
Requires native msvcrt.dll AND msvcp60.dll for multiplayer lobby support (otherwise a "runtime error" dialog appears)
If music is disabled and player enters multiplayer lobby music re-enables and stays enabled (if using builtin dmusic, music sounds choppy)
Mouse does not moves with builtin dinput.dll. Mouse moves but it is uncontrollable using native dinput.dll. However when entering the multiplayer lobby mouse seems to work OK, using any kind of dinput. Mouse brokens again when returning to main menu and in-game. Artifacts appear in places where the mouse had moved.
In-game seems OK, but not much testing was possible because mouse issues.
Summary: requieres mouse fix. seems to be fully playable.
Empire Earth will freeze if you end the game by clicking on the "Quit Game" button in the menu.
Empire Earth 1.0 (happens in 0.9.50)
Bugs:
Empire Earth's Mouse will hang if you tab out of the game(and back in).
Empire Earth 1.0 (happens in 0.9.50)
HOWTO
To allow EE to find the CD you should open winecfg and add a drive mapping, setting it to CDROM.
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.
Mouse Fix
by Iago Caran on Saturday November 17th 2012, 21:00
I actually got the mouse working by only using native dinput.dll, I didn't have time to test a lot, but it appears to be working.
If this helped please comment, if not, at least I tried.
Who can I fix the mouse problem?
by Tomas Gustavsson on Sunday May 3rd 2009, 4:13
I see that some of you guys have been able to play through Empire Earth and I wonder how, I as many other have had the problem that the mouse is too low which makes it more or less unplayable.
