Medieval: Total War

What works

• Installation. In order to get the installer to recognize the files on the second disc, I had to copy them to my hard drive and then point the installer there. (You can manually specify the path to the files on disc 2 from within the installer.)
  

What does not

 The game won't run.

• Launching the game in Windows XP mode leads to apparent success (the CD is checked in the drive, and a splash screen comes up). In the debugging information printed to standard error, an unhandled exception is noted, however, and then the game exits.
• Launching the game in Windows 98 mode leads to a dialog box titled, "A debugger has been detected," which reads, "Remove the debugger and try again." After dismissing this box, the game exits.
  

Workarounds

What was not tested

Nothing was tested past installation and game launch.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

This is a huge jump over the last time I tried to play the game in Wine. Previously, it could not complete installation and, if a Windows installation were copied over and used in Wine, there was no way to avoid the message about a debugger being present.