Age of Empires II

Gold Edtion: Latest version of Age of Empires II (Age of Kings) and it's expansion, The Conquerors

Application Details:

Version:	Gold Edition
License:	Retail
URL:	http://www.microsoft.com/games...
Votes:	0
Latest Rating:	Gold
Latest Wine Version Tested:	2.0.1

Maintainers: About Maintainership

azrdev

Test Results

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What works

Campaign
Custom game / Skirmish
LAN Multiplayer
Changing the settings
Map editor

What does not

Intros

Workarounds

What was not tested

Internet multiplayer

Hardware tested

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Additional Comments

== My system == PC: ASUS Laptop (K55VD) CPU: Intel i7 Ivy CPU (2.3 GHz, 4 cores) RAM: 8Gb DDR3 Memory GPU1: Intel HD Graphics 4000 GPU2: Nvidia GeForce 610M (2Gb DDR3) OS: Arch Linux 64bit (Linux kernel 4.4.1) DE: GNOME Shell 3.18.3 Wine: 1.9.3 USED GPU: In this test I used GPU1 to run the game

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Jun 05 2017	2.0.1	Yes	Yes		Gold	Rocky
Show	Arch Linux x86_64	Jul 13 2016	1.9.14	Yes	Yes		Platinum	u312302109381290
Show	Arch Linux x86_64	Jun 18 2016	1.9.12	Yes	Yes		Platinum	u312302109381290
Current	Arch Linux x86_64	Feb 12 2016	1.9.3	Yes	Yes		Platinum	u312302109381290
Show	Arch Linux x86_64	Dec 26 2015	1.9.0	Yes	Yes		Platinum	u312302109381290

Known Bugs

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HowTo / Notes

HOWTO PLAY ONLINE

Multiplayer
To get multiplayer working you have to use by now the directplay libraries from microsoft, still (since 2006) no open source libraries for direct play that include libraries to open sockets and close to play games, so install winetricks:

(in ubuntu/debian) sudo apt-get install winetricks

and then exec:
winetricks directplay

It will download the directplay libraries from microsoft and install them, that's all, tcp/ip will work with direct connect.

Black screen issues

If you get only a black screen upon starting a game

after wine 2.13, fix it with winetricks ddr=gdi (see https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43627)
after wine 3.2, fix it with winetricks csmt=off (see https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44796)

Comments

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Not Running
by John on Wednesday June 20th 2018, 3:55

I have installed Aoe2 Gold edition and put a no-cd patch but when i try running empires2.exe nothing happens. I tried opening the game for the terminal ("wine empires2.exe") but it gives me this error ----> "0009:err:module:import_dll Library DPLAYX.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\home\\john\\Games\\Age of Empires II\\empires2.exe") not found
0009:err:module:attach_dlls Importing dlls for L"Z:\\home\\john\\Games\\Age of Empires II\\empires2.exe" failed, status c0000135"

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RE: Not Running
by John on Wednesday June 20th 2018, 4:04

After running the command "winetricks directplay" everything was working. The game is working now.

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RE: Not Running
by azrdev on Wednesday June 20th 2018, 6:55

cool that this solved your issue! do you mind filing a test result?

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Directplay
by Jacob Cameron on Thursday January 5th 2017, 15:48

Whenever I install direct-play on the admin account on my system it never works on other accounts. Is there a fix for this?

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RE: Directplay
by u312302109381290 on Wednesday June 7th 2017, 4:13

Do you mean you installed it as root? If so it won't work, as each user has it's own wine prefix (by default) and also using WINE as root is dangerous.

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RE: Directplay
by Jacob Cameron on Thursday June 8th 2017, 19:24

Yes I did and I figured it wouldn't work( I ended up figuring everything else out wine related.) As that was more than three months ago. Thanks for your speedy and yet helpful response.

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