Populous: The Beginning

What works

Only the installation, which has to be run from the setup folder on the Populous CD. Using the setup file in the CD's root leaves you stuck at an options screen.

What does not

The game itself. A small window in the center of the screen appears, but only its borders show. The whole screen turns black, and the window disappears. Populous never runs. Tried it both unpatched and after the 1.03 patch, and from the wine-generated shortcut and directly, both PopTB.exe and D3DPopTB.exe. All had the same result.

Workarounds

What was not tested

The game, since it won't even start.

Hardware tested

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Additional Comments

This game works with Wine 1.1.29, but not with the newer versions until 1.3.32, which works even better!

Additional infor for 1.1.29:

• Make sure you have the MouseWarpOverride registry key (if it does not exist, you will have to create it).
  
• Do not attempt to use hardware acceleration - unfortunate things will happen.
• In my experience, it works a lot better to run it in a window.
• If you have difficulty with a non 1:1 mouse movement ratio (e.g. your mouse sometimes pops out of the window before it reaches the edge), try moving your mouse rapidly to another portion of the window, and then slowly approach the portion you wish to reach.

• Install in win98 mode: when running the installer do not use the autorun, Navigate to $CDROM/setup/English (or whatever your language is) and run the SETUP.EXE found there.
• Apply patch 1.03
• Run in win98 mode

Mouse override is not needed anymore!

I suggest to play the game inside a wine desktop due to low resolution supported by the game, however fullscreen should works too