Application Details:
| Version: | 1.0x |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://www.infinite-interactiv... |
| Votes: | 0 |
| Latest Rating: | Gold |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 4.0-rc2 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Everything tested:
- Campaign
- Skirmish
- After Battle (see below)
- Creating Heros
- Playing Intro from options
- switching to higher resolution
What does not
I had two random issues after battles were over:
- annoying: once when leveling a hero the game crashed (with the state reverting to before the battle)
- minor inconvenience: once after battle (when selecting retinue) graphics got garbled (a lot of black, graphics mostly half width) and stayed like this, worked though and restarting solved this
Workarounds
The game comes with extra information in the form of .chm files for which shortcuts are installed in the menu. These have path escaping issues and the wine builtin stuff is not really able to display it (as opposed to the software delivered with windows), but there are linux native chm-readers. I sucessfully used xchm.
What was not tested
Multiplayer
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
This is about the GOG version, which has version 2.0.0.4 in its download name - which is listed as (regular) 1.0.0.4 ingame. But the difference to my old game CD is that the GOG version works - and the old one does not. I guess they must have fixed something (small?).
Tested with wine-3.0-rc2, selecting 4.0 'cause that is considered too old (but not giving a good feedback about the release currently in LTS Ubuntu does not seem right either...).
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Current | Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu) | Feb 03 2019 | 4.0-rc2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | axm | |
| Show | Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Sep 19 2017 | 2.0.2 | Yes | Yes | No | Garbage | axm | |
| Show | Mandriva Cooker | Aug 10 2009 | 1.1.27 | Yes | Yes | Gold | Grzegorz Åuszczek | ||
| Show | Mandriva Cooker | Mar 16 2009 | 1.1.17 | Yes | Yes | Gold | Grzegorz Åuszczek | ||
| Show | Mandriva Cooker | Mar 12 2009 | 1.1.16 | Yes | Yes | Gold | Grzegorz Åuszczek |
Elements such as taskbars designed to cover other applications are not hidden when Warlords Battlecry 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.
Multiplayer
To get multiplayer working, place the DLLs in this archive
in Wine's windows/system32 directory. Then, start winecfg and add dll
overrides (native, builtin) for the following DLLs: dplayx, dpnet,
dpnhpast and dpwsockx.
NOTE: the game freezes when exiting a multiplayer game.
