Sins of a Solar Empire

What works

Everything from single player to multi-player games.

What does not

Resolution Settings, you must do this manually with a text editor at '/Local Settings/Application Data/Ironclad Games/Sins of a Solar Empire/Setting/diplomacy.user.setting' file before you start the game.

Fonts are really big (overflow on game GUI) unless you download the font over-ride pack for the game.

Workarounds

What was not tested

NA

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Works very well with the font override pack to fix the monster big text.

There's a quite detailed howto on installing the game on stardocks own forum, check there for the most up to date information:

http://forums.stardock.com/?aid=171844

Font fix

Fix 1

1. In the game's directory inside the "Font" folder are 3 .ttf files, you have to copy to your local font folder (if you use gnome you can open with gnome-font-viewer and click on install). and in a terminal run:
fc-cache -fr ~/.fonts

2. Using a terminal enter the game's Font directory and run:
sed 's/SinsAgencyBold/AgencyFB-Bold/g' -i.bak *.font 

Thanks to Marcos

Fix 2

Download fixed fonts from here www.honorguardonline.com/sins/sinsfontfix.tar.gz  unpack and copy to Font sub-directory in Sins of a Solar Empire folder.
This fix is from the "Unofficial guide to SoaSE under Wine"  http://forums.stardock.com/?aid=171844  .

NOTE

None of this is perfect, particularly the fix 2 which just edits the fonts to be smaller. It is possible that some text will still overlap.
For more detailed explanation of the problem see: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17015

Changing resolution

When using NVIDIA proprietary drivers, game resolution cannot be changed in game. You need to change it manually in user.setting file located in ".wine/drive_c/users/username/Local Settings/Application Data/Ironclad Games/Sins of a Solar Empire/Setting/".

Resolution can be changed just fine with mesa drivers. I haven't tested fglrx.