Application Details:
| Version: | DoW: Demo |
| License: | Demo |
| URL: | http://www.dawnofwargame.com/ |
| Votes: | 0 |
| Latest Rating: | Silver |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 1.7.54 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Installing the game (even if the installed fails at the end)
Adjusting settings
Intro to the game and of course playing the game
What does not
The full installation of the games fail at the end but does not affect the game
Workarounds
What was not tested
Lan and Internet play; i just tested the game playing the tutorial
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | openSUSE Tumbleweed (rolling release) | Nov 15 2015 | 1.7.54 | Yes | Yes | Silver | Maik Wagner | ||
| Current | openSUSE Tumbleweed (rolling release) | Oct 30 2011 | 1.3.31 | Yes | Yes | Silver | Ursan Marius Bogdan | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Apr 20 2011 | 1.3.18 | Yes | Yes | Bronze | Ken Sharp | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Dec 09 2010 | 1.3.8 | Yes | Yes | Platinum | Athrun | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Aug 30 2010 | 1.2 | No | Not installable | Garbage | Andrew Gray |
After you installed the game you may get a performance boost if you use the latest version of DirectX 9.
The easiest way to do so, is using winetricks:
winetricks directx9
Read more about winetricks, here:
If you have problems with completely corrupted textures the problem might be that your systems lacks a library that is used for texture compression in Dawn of War.
Under Debian based system install the package "libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0" and try again.
