Age of Mythology

What works

Installing

As I had already installed other games the standard things like MSXML, MFC42 had already been sorted. I have also installed the dx9 runtime, needed to play rise of nations.

When asked to insert CD 2, I manually unmount the CD in Ubuntu by right clicking the CD icon on the desktop and selecting Unmount in the menu. When inserting the new CD, the installation continues automatically.

Running

When I tried to run the game it hung leaving me with a black screen. After reading some of the comments I added the +noIntroCinematics parameter and that made the game start.

The game window minimizes and I have to click on the taskbar button to get the window up again.
The game is now complaining about the sound (Title. Warning: failed to initialize sound), but clicking OK allows you to continue.

The game window resizes it self to 32 by 32 pixels and ends up in the top left corner. Double clicking the window maximizes it and now you can see the main menu.

You can play the game, frame rate is good on my ATI 2600 but the mouse hotspot is out.

What does not

The game window is drawn behind the Ubuntu/Gnome taskbar and top menu bar, this causes a problem in that you can't access certain menus along the bottom and top.

The mouse pointer seem to be draw 100 pixels below the hotspot, you can still click the buttons.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Did not play a complete game.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

To make the game enjoyable the sound and mouse hotspot issues will need to be fixed. I did not find a fix in the comments. I also upgraded to version 1.10 of aom but that did not fix these two issues.

These errors/problems have been reported on older versions of wine, but are listed here (along with possible solutions) in case they pop up again.

Problem:  Flickering water and/or memory leak
Solution:  Set graphics detail to low and increase your swap size. 

Problem:  MS EULA Appears below AoM logo on first launch.
Solution:  Focus the window using the taskbar or Alt+Tab and then use Alt+A to agree.

Problem:  You need MSXML 4.0
Solution:  Use the version included on the install CD.  Type "wine msiexec /i msxml.msi" to install.

Problem:  The installer can't find PidGen.DLL.
Solution:  Copy PidGen.DLL from the installation CD and place it in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32.

AoM installation may require:

* MFC42.DLL

If nothing happens after you click "Next" on the CD Key input screen, you may need this file.

Place the file in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32.  Add a new override (see below).

Adding an Override

Run "winecfg" from the command line.  Click the "Libraries" tab at the top of the window that appears.

Type the name of the library into "New override for library:" (type "pidgen" for PidGen.DLL).  Click "Add",

make sure that "(native, builtin)" appears next to the library you just added.  If it doesn't highlight the new

override and click "Edit" select "Native then builtin" and click "OK" and finally click "OK".