How to run the game
You need to run the game with the -C command line switch, like 'wine emperor.exe -C'.
Problems installing from CD?
Ok. This is howto for people who can't install Emperor directly form CD.
1) First of all visit website Dune2k.com and download Install patch for Emperor.
2) Coppy your Setup folder from the cd. Replace the Setup.exe with exe from the patch.
3) Run Setup.exe through terminal. It should be displaying: enter the cd to the drive.
4) Don't close message from your install. Run another terminal and enter wincfg. When you are in it, click on "Drives" button and create drive with D letter, set it as CD-ROM. Set path to this drive as /media/Emperor1/ (or whatever path you have to your CD-ROM). And apply changes. Don't close winecfg!
5) Switch to the installation and click ok on the "Insert cd" message. It should disappear and installation should began.
6) When you are going to play, enter the Emperor's folder and replace Emperor.exe with the same exe from patch.
Have fun ;]
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bash script
by Gorjan Stojchev on Thursday June 14th 2012, 13:26
Hi there I know it's an oldie :) but I wrote a quick bash script to automate loading of cd-s from iso files. Hope it helps someone :)
#---- cut from here ----
#!/bin/bash
echo "Starting Emperor battle for dune"\n
echo "Enter location dir of iso files"\n
read -e -p "Location: " lcis
cd "$lcis"
echo "Enter name of iso file without number an ext"\n
read -e -p "name: " nais
echo "Enter location to mount the image"\n
read -e -p "Location: " mnis
hmn=$HOME
scl='0'
while [[ "$scl" -ne "1" && "$scl" -ne "2" && "$scl" -ne "3" ]]
do
echo "Which house are you going to play"\n
echo "1 - House Artredis"\n
echo "2 - House Harkonen"\n
echo "3 - House Ordos"\n
read -p "Choise: " scl
done
scl=`expr $scl + 1`
case "$scl" in
[2])
if [[ -h $hmn"/.wine/dosdevices/d:" && -h $hmn"/.wine/dosdevices/d::" ]]; then
echo "Deleting previous drives"
cd $hmn"/.wine/dosdevices/"
rm d:
rm d::
sudo umount -l $mnis
sudo mount -o loop "$lcis"$nais$scl".iso" $mnis
ln -s $mnis d\:
ln -s "$lcis"$nais$scl".iso" d\:\:
cd c:
wine ./Westwood/Emperor/EMPEROR.EXE -C
else
cd $hmn"/.wine/dosdevices/"
sudo umount $mnis
sudo mount -o loop "$lcis"$nais$scl".iso" $mnis
ln -s $mnis d\:
ln -s "$lcis"$nais$scl".iso" d\:\:
cd c:
wine ./Westwood/Emperor/EMPEROR.EXE -C
fi
;;
[3])
if [[ -h $hmn"/.wine/dosdevices/d:" && -h $hmn"/.wine/dosdevices/d::" ]]; then
echo "Deleting previous drives"
cd $hmn"/.wine/dosdevices/"
rm d:
rm d::
sudo umount -l $mnis
sudo mount -o loop "$lcis"$nais$scl".iso" $mnis
ln -s $mnis d\:
ln -s "$lcis"$nais$scl".iso" d\:\:
cd c:
wine ./Westwood/Emperor/EMPEROR.EXE -C
else
cd $hmn"/.wine/dosdevices/"
sudo umount $mnis
sudo mount -o loop "$lcis"$nais$scl".iso" $mnis
ln -s $mnis d\:
ln -s "$lcis"$nais$scl".iso" d\:\:
cd c:
wine ./Westwood/Emperor/EMPEROR.EXE -C
fi
;;
[4])
if [[ -h $hmn"/.wine/dosdevices/d:" && -h $hmn"/.wine/dosdevices/d::" ]]; then
echo "Deleting previous drives"
cd $hmn"/.wine/dosdevices/"
rm d:
rm d::
sudo umount -l $mnis
sudo mount -o loop "$lcis"$nais$scl".iso" $mnis
ln -s $mnis d\:
ln -s "$lcis"$nais$scl".iso" d\:\:
cd c:
wine ./Westwood/Emperor/EMPEROR.EXE -C
else
cd $hmn"/.wine/dosdevices/"
sudo umount $mnis
sudo mount -o loop "$lcis"$nais$scl".iso" $mnis
ln -s $mnis d\:
ln -s "$lcis"$nais$scl".iso" d\:\:
cd c:
wine ./Westwood/Emperor/EMPEROR.EXE -C
fi
;;
Incredible slow cutscenes.
by Konstantin on Friday March 2nd 2012, 12:31
The gameplay works fine but the cutscenes were blurry and they only run at about 1 frame per second (same with the sound). Anyone knows what the problem is?
Please insert CD
by geby on Monday December 27th 2010, 3:01
Emperor looks for the CD in the D:\ partition (keep that in mind when mounting in winecfg)
Wine currently doesn't correctly handle volume labels. So when you specify a volume label for partition D:\ from within winecfg, it won't actually get set (check this by running "wine cmd" switching to D: and running "dir")
The only reliable way I found to set a volume label (for wine) is to create in the mounted folder a file named .windows-label and containing the desired label.
So, instructions are as follows:
1. copy the CD-1 contents to somewhere (say ~/Emperor_1)
2. execute in console: "echo EMPEROR1 ~/Emperor_1/.windows-label" - this will create a file named .windows label in the folder ~/Emperor_1/ and the file will contain the text EMPEROR1.
3. Do the same when "inserting" the other CD's.
For future reference:
EMPEROR1 - Install CD
EMPEROR2 - Atreides CD
EMPEROR3 - Harkonnen CD
EMPEROR4 - Ordos CD
Can't get it to run
by Aaron Whitehouse on Wednesday September 23rd 2009, 0:59
Hello,
I can't get this to work for me in CX Games 8.0 (Wine 1.1.25) and I'm hoping that someone can help me get it going.
Here is what I have done:
1) Install into a Win2000 bottle (I also tried WinXP), using defaults for all options except "Register Online", which I deselected;
2) Click "Return to Windows" when it completes. This froze the system (repeatedly), resizing the screen so that the Emperor window is in the top left with my desktop wallpaper in the background. It doesn't exit Emperor nor load the desktop properly (icons, taskbars etc.);
3) I moved to another virtual desktop and went into WineCfg Task Manager. I ended the Emperor application and "Visual C++ Runtime". The Emperor window then closed;
4) Ran a "Reboot" for the bottle;
5) Double-clicked the icon on the desktop. The screen refreshed to different resolutions before freezing black. The system was frozen hard (Ctrl + Alt + Backspace didn't do anything), so I had to hard power off;
6) I selected to emulate an 800x600 virtual desktop in the settings for the bottle;
7) Double-clicked the icon and had another hard freeze;
8) I patched Emperor to version 1.09 by running the patch from dune2k.com/Duniverse/Games/Emperor/Downloads/Patches ;
9) I tried running again and the system froze as before; and
10) I tried to run with the -C option by choosing "Run a Windows Command", selecting both the "Emperor" and "Game" executables and adding a "-C" to the command. This didn't seem to do anything.
Any help that anyone can give would be appreciated.
I am pretty sure that I got a lot further than this when I tried with previous versions (though I can't remember the version and it could have been Wine), so would be keen to hear whether others have more luck.
sporadic lowering framerate running Emperor on ubuntu
by Morten Silcowitz on Sunday November 30th 2008, 15:44
Hi everyone.
I'm running Emperor 1.09 using wine 1.1.9 and 8.10 ubuntu on a thinkpad t61 with a nvidia quadro 140M card.
The game seems to run smooth and flawlessly, until framerate suddenly drops drastically and the game lags horribly, Then after a like 20 seconds, the lagging disappears and everything is fine again. This repeats itself more or less often, i think like every minute or so, but not in a straight pattern.
Iv tried tweaking graphics settings, disabling sound, even running the game using a clean boot with out starting gdm (gnome desktop manager), but no matter what its always the same problem.
Anyone experienced something like that? Any ideas on the cause of this?
Emperor is really the only game i have been running using wine, so im not really sure if this problem would exist in other games too. I will try to investigate that...
missing textures on nvidia drivers
by Paweł Zaskórski on Saturday August 2nd 2008, 4:59
Hi!
I have Nvidia NV43 [GeForce 6600] card and the latest Nvidia drivers (173.14.12). I have also disabled composite extensions and updated Emperor to the latest 1.09 patch. The game runs, but when I load a map (with tutorial, for example or start a campaign) I have something like this:
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When Emperor is running, I have in console a lot of messages like this:
ixme:d3d_surface:surface_convert_format Cannot find a conversion function from format WINED3DFMT_R8G8B8 to WINED3DFMT_DXT1
fixme:d3d_surface:surface_convert_format Cannot find a conversion function from format WINED3DFMT_R8G8B8 to WINED3DFMT_DXT1
fixme:d3d_surface:surface_convert_format Cannot find a conversion function from format WINED3DFMT_R8G8B8 to WINED3DFMT_DXT1
fixme:d3d_surface:surface_convert_format Cannot find a conversion function from format WINED3DFMT_X1R5G5B5 to WINED3DFMT_DXT1
fixme:d3d_surface:surface_convert_format Cannot find a conversion function from format WINED3DFMT_R8G8B8 to WINED3DFMT_DXT1
fixme:d3d_surface:surface_convert_format Cannot find a conversion function from format WINED3DFMT_R8G8B8 to WINED3DFMT_DXT1
fixme:d3d_surface:surface_convert_format Cannot find a conversion function from format WINED3DFMT_A1R5G5B5 to WINED3DFMT_DXT1
fixme:d3d_surface:surface_convert_format Cannot find a conversion function from format WINED3DFMT_X1R5G5B5 to WINED3DFMT_DXT1
This problem persists in Wine 1.1.0 and 1.1.2. Any sugestion?
dont work for me
by OSuKaRu on Wednesday July 23rd 2008, 8:31
i copied the cd into the HD and put the cracked SETUP.EXE in it.
fine so far. but, when i put "wine SETUP.EXE" in a term, i get this:
fixme:mountmgr:harddisk_ioctl unsupported ioctl 560000
fixme:mountmgr:harddisk_ioctl unsupported ioctl 560000
fixme:mountmgr:harddisk_ioctl unsupported ioctl 560000
fixme:reg:RegSetKeySecurity :(0x58,4,0x3c5a50): stub
and holds up (Yes, holds up because the System.exe, winserver.exe... etc are still opened)
Incredibly Slow Intro
by Mike on Friday March 14th 2008, 9:29
This game is working well for me (though some effects are not working like fire from smokestacks.) The only problem I have is with the game logo videos when the game is first started. There are two videos (one for EA and the other for Westwood) that display before either the game movies or the menu. Under normal circumstances these take between 5 and 10 seconds to display. Under wine they don't actually display but you sporadically hear the sounds of them. They take between 3 and 5 minutes to pass. They cannot be skipped so you have to wait for them before getting to the menu. Has anyone found a solution to this?
