Application Details:
| Version: | 1.0 |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://www.microsoft.com/games... |
| Votes: | 3 |
| Latest Rating: | Gold |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 7.11 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
The game installs with just one hangup, I ended up having to hit Enter somewhere along the line to get it moving again (must have been a hidden dialog box). It seems to play fine. I've gone through maybe 15 campaign scenarios, with no problems. Sound works for me (OSS driver). No lockups. It seemed to work best in a 640x480 wine desktop.
What does not
Nothing that I tried.
Workarounds
What was not tested
I did not test multiplayer or random maps.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
The black text is annoying enough for me to rate this one as bronze. I have to play it with my desktop configuration window with the gamma settings open so I can up the gamma to read the text at certain times. Even then, the text is still unable to be read because it's writing black-on-black in some places.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal" (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jul 01 2022 | 7.11 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Stephan Sokolow | |
| Show | AntiX Linux 19 i686 (Debian Stable) | Dec 05 2020 | 6.0-rc1-staging | Yes | No | No | Garbage | Alex | |
| Show | Debian GNU/Linux 10.x "Buster" x86_64 | Jan 01 2021 | 5.0.3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | John W | |
| Show | Fedora 24 x86_64 | Nov 17 2016 | 1.9.22 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | Federico Guerra | |
| Show | Linux Mint 17 "Qiana" x86_64 | Aug 23 2014 | 1.7.24 | Yes | Yes | No | Bronze | an anonymous user |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 1830 | Multiplayer problem in age of empires (All versions) | NEW | View | |
| 3548 | .lnk file is created on the desktop together with the program icon... | NEW | View | |
| 4066 | Online Play Doesn't Work (DirectPlay) | NEW | View | |
| 17682 | AoE Help graphics immediately whitened, no text | NEW | View | |
| 34166 | Fullscreen flickering on Mac | RESOLVED | NOTOURBUG | View |
To prevent installer windows from being hidden, change Wine's settings so that the window manager is not allowed to control Wine applications (can be done with winecfg).
In Wine versions prior to 0.9.17, elements such as taskbars designed to cover other applications are not hidden when Age of Empires II is run in full-screen. This can be fixed by not allowing the window manager to control Wine applications (can be changed in winecfg), or by changing the taskbar's options so that windows are allowed to cover it.
Crack
If the game does not recognice your CD, use a crack. This may or may not be legal, depending on where you live.
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.
by Sastry Tumuluri on Thursday July 31st 2008, 8:42
a) long (2minutes +) pause at "listing files" or something like that
b) partial display / no display of buttons / menu items (during installation)
c) crib about Direct X 5.0 (I chose "Don't Install')
The game started up fine (except very dark button text) when I clicked "play" from the installer menu.
It also starts up fine whenever I insert the CD, navigate to it, start the installer and click "play" from the installer menu.
Real Problems:
1. It did not install any shortcuts on desktop; no addition to menu items. I added them manually through the menu-editor, and landed with the next (below) problem.
2. When I start wine (file) explorer , navigate to the game directory, and dbl-click on Empires.exe (or start the game through the manually added menu item), it says "Could not initialize the graphics system. Make sure your video card and driver are compatible with DirectDraw."
by Philip Wagenknecht on Wednesday November 26th 2008, 5:07
by Andurian on Saturday May 10th 2008, 6:34
aoe gave me some directdraw problem(dont ask, my video card is fine, i run aoe2 and others fine). and rise of rome crashes on me big time. go figure...
oh, and yes i did all the recommended steps and etc...
by Reuben on Sunday April 26th 2009, 7:06
by Hiperi0n on Wednesday May 7th 2008, 18:05
Also, I can't get the midi music to work.
(fixme:mcimidi:MIDI_mciPlay NIY: MIDI port=0, track=1 )
by Luuk de Waal Malefijt on Wednesday May 7th 2008, 7:31
by Tim Scharrenborg on Sunday January 20th 2008, 14:57
Anyone have a fix?
by Tim Scharrenborg on Sunday January 20th 2008, 17:00
bug?
by Martin Spelt on Tuesday January 3rd 2006, 8:41
I had the same problem during installation, the problem probably is that the window saying that the chosen directory does not exist, and asks if you want to create it, appears behind the normal installation window, so I couldn't choose OK.
Solution: Run wine in a virtual desktop, go to winecfg, Graphics, and choose emulate a virtual desktop (or something similar, I have a non-English version). The next time you try to install AoE the window should appear somewhere in the wine window and you're able to click OK and continue with the installation.
by Pavel Reznicek on Saturday July 23rd 2005, 5:14
I had problems with the multiplayer mode in AoE on WINE and I finally solved them and want to report my success for those who are intersted.
Generally, take a look at this discussion post:
www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-users/2004/02/0174.html
If I'm correct, you should follow these steps:
1) You should have DirectX installed. It doesn't need to be the current version. Why? Because of the native DLL's of DirectPlay network playing system.
2) Make sure your WINE registry file (~/.wine/system.reg) includes the registry information that can be found in the link mentioned above. These entries are absolutely necessary for the network play.
3) In order to play via TCP/IP protocol, you should configure WINE to prefer native form of these DLL's:
- dplayx
- dpnhpast
- dpwsock
- dpwsockx
I din't test other types of connection but, if you want, you can go through the registry entries mentioned above and figure out which other libraries do you need to connect other ways (let's say, serial line or modem). These may include:
- dpmodemx
- dpserial
4) Beware of the sound! WINE still has problems playing the sound from AoE. Playing with music & sound can cause WINE to crash. This is just another episode, but just for start, you can turn the sound off in AoE :-)
Tested with the latest WINE version (20050628) from Mandriva LE 2005 RPMs.