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Age of Empires II

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It's a pack published by Ubisoft with Age of Empires 1 and 2 and their Expansions. CodeGame series.

Application Details:

Version: Collectors Edition by Ubisoft
License: Retail
URL: http://www.microsoft.com/games...
Votes: 0
Latest Rating: Gold
Latest Wine Version Tested: 1.9.13

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Test Results

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What works

Gameplay works a treat and the ingame sounds are there. Textures are rendered fine. Random map gameplay and scenarios work. You can read the history as well.

What does not

No music. Can be solved in AOE one by installing timidity. In AOE II this problem is caused by the fact that the collectors edition doesn't come with the music required.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Multiplayer features were not tested.

Hardware tested

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Additional Comments

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Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?
RatingSubmitter
ShowArch Linux x86_64Jul 06 20161.9.13Yes Yes NoGoldazrdev 
CurrentUbuntu 15.04 "Vivid" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Aug 25 20151.7.45Yes Yes NoGoldan anonymous user 
ShowLinux Mint 17.3 "Rosa" x86_64Apr 16 20161.6.2Yes Yes NoSilverKyle Nokes 
ShowUbuntu 15.04 "Vivid" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Aug 26 20151.6.2Yes Yes NoGoldan anonymous user 
ShowMac OS X 10.10 "Yosemite"Jan 06 20151.6.2Yes Yes NoSilveran anonymous user 

Known Bugs

Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
30814 Age of Empires II scrolling gets stuck after Alt-Tab away and back CLOSED FIXED View

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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

Comments

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Update Black Screen Issue
by JogiB�r on Sunday February 4th 2024, 3:48
with wine Vers. 6 I had to use both:
after wine 2.13, fix it with winetricks ddr=gdi (see bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43627)
after wine 3.2, fix it with winetricks csmt=off (see bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44796)
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