Application Details:
Version: | Ultimate Edition |
License: | Retail |
URL: | http://www.galciv2.com/ |
Votes: | 1 |
Latest Rating: | Platinum |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 2.12-staging |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Game instals successfully either viea Steam or "Digital Download" from Stardock's website. Both a 32-bit and a 64-bit WINEPREFIX was attempted for the digital download version, but only 64 bit was tested with Steam (the same problem is encountered either way).
What does not
Game crashes on launch with an error.
Workarounds
What was not tested
Anything else.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
This used to work for me on older versions of Wine, maybe there is some kind of regression? As noted, this test was made with Wine 1.9.5 on a current and up to date copy of Antergos 64-bit (ArchLinux-like)
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Show | Linux Mint 18.2 "Sonya" x86_64 | Aug 04 2017 | 2.12-staging | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | David Nicholson | |
Show | Gentoo Linux x86_64 | Apr 21 2017 | 2.3-staging | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Michele | |
Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Oct 12 2016 | 1.9.20 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | u312302109381290 | |
Current | Antergos x86_64 | Mar 12 2016 | 1.9.5 | Yes | No | No | Garbage | an anonymous user | |
Show | Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Sep 29 2015 | 1.7.51 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Steven Wilson |
This error is thrown when the game used up all the allocated memory (RAM) and there is no more left to complete the game saving process, and results in a crash and possibly corrupted save games.
It usually happens on immense galaxies with abundant planets and many races and units on the map at the same time.
Those conditions result in a huge amount of RAM being used. This game is a 32bit game, which means that it can only access a maximum of 2Gb RAM. (So no, this error is not caused by WINE)
Luckily, there are tools out there to trick 32bit applications into using 4Gb RAM (which is the maximum amount of RAM that a 32bit system can use as a whole). Even more fortunate is the fact that this game works perfectly with this "patch".
The tool can be downloaded here
Just run "wine 4gb_patch.exe {path_to_game_exe}" and that's it. The tool will automatically back up the original executable so there's no need to do that manually.
After that's done (it should be done in an instant) you can run the game just like you normally would.
If your system has less or exactly 4Gb RAM and your game will somehow use all of them, this might cause problems for your other applications and possibly even for your operating system, because there may not be any more RAM free for anything on your machine.
I'm not sure how Linux (or Mac) reacts when all RAM is used up, but I'd recommend closing all non-essential applications while playing this game with this path, because this game eats through your RAM like there's no tomorrow when you play on big maps.
If your system has more than 4Gb RAM then there shouldn't be any issue at all.
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.
by Steven Wilson on Thursday October 1st 2015, 21:30
by Kaeru on Saturday September 20th 2014, 8:38
by Yanis Lukes on Tuesday July 22nd 2014, 3:53
by Mariano on Tuesday September 25th 2012, 19:35
by Mariano on Monday October 8th 2012, 21:38
by Lars Lucomo on Thursday August 28th 2014, 12:30
by Dan on Saturday August 11th 2012, 4:27
Same error with wine 1.5.10 and the last known working version 1.3.35.
Standard gentoo install for 1.5.10, 1.3.35 is a manual build from source.
by Ioannis Galanomatis on Sunday September 2nd 2012, 18:47
These messages you said about resolution etc happen also to me, but game runs normally.
by Dan on Saturday August 11th 2012, 4:24
Anyone got any advice?