Age of Empires II

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The HD update from Hidden Path Entertainment.

Application Details:

Version:	Steam
License:	Retail
URL:	http://www.microsoft.com/games...
Votes:	9
Latest Rating:	Gold
Latest Wine Version Tested:	5.0.3

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Test Results

Old test results

The test results you have selected are very old and may not represent the current state of Wine.

Selected Test Results

What works

Play, sound, save and load games.

What does not

Launcher has no text (see bug #43758) and crashes.

Workarounds

Open the folder /drive_c/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/Age2HD in the Steam wineprefix, rename or delete Launcher.exe and rename the file AoK HD.exe to Launcher.exe.

What was not tested

Scenario Editor and Multiplayer.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

GPU: AMD
Driver: open source

Additional Comments

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	macOS 10.13 "High Sierra"	Nov 29 2020	5.0.3	Yes	Yes	Yes	Gold	Charro
Show	Gentoo Linux	May 02 2020	5.7	Yes	Yes	Yes	Gold	Aristocrates
Current	Rosa Fresh 2016.1	May 12 2019	4.8-staging	Yes	Yes	Yes	Gold	Giovanni Mariani
Show	macOS 10.13 "High Sierra"	Nov 26 2018	3.0.3	Yes	Yes	Yes	Gold	YVES
Show	Gentoo Linux x86_64	Sep 21 2018	3.15-staging	Yes	Yes	No	Platinum	Erol M. Yasar

Known Bugs

Bug #	Description	Status	Resolution	Other apps affected
29384	Multiple applications expect correct handling of WRITECOPY memory protection (Voobly fails to launch Age of Empires II, MSYS2)	STAGED		View
38784	Age of Empires II: wine 1.7.x series do not work with the external monitor as the primary output	UNCONFIRMED		View
43758	Age of Empires 2 HD Launcher has missing text	NEW		View

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HowTo / Notes

White Screen (Main Map)

This is a known problem with older Intel GPUs. Try to use Wine 2.1. In most of case solve Direct3D glitch.

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)

Stuck scrolling (typically after Alt+tab)

Hit each direction key in succession while holding Ctrl. For instance:

Ctrl+Up
Ctrl+Left
Ctrl+Down
Ctrl+Right

Comments

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AoE II Definitive Edition
by Thibaud D on Saturday November 16th 2019, 2:41

Hi. Don't know if this is the correct location to post this, but anyboday managed to install AoE II Definitive Edition via wine? Mine says 'your OS doesn't support this game'... :(

RE: AoE II Definitive Edition
by Georg on Saturday November 16th 2019, 7:04

Hello,
installing the game isn't any problem. Getting the game to start successfully is complicated, look here: www.reddit.com/r/aoe2/comments/dwuplr/how_to_run_age_of_empires_2_definitive_edition_on/

Your above error message suggest that wine isn't installed correctly or it is too old, make sure to get wine-staging 4.19 if you try to run it.

RE: AoE II Definitive Edition
by Thibaud D on Sunday November 17th 2019, 3:27

Hi Georg. I have wine 4.19 staging. I think it's related to the 32/64-bit issue. With PlayOnMac I can't seem to use the 64-bit version of wine, and I can't really figure it out how to...

RE: AoE II Definitive Edition
by Thibaud D on Sunday November 17th 2019, 3:28

Actually the error is 'invalid platform'

RE: AoE II Definitive Edition
by Georg on Wednesday November 20th 2019, 7:42

Well I am sorry it s related to 64 bit wine, wasn't aware that 64bit wine isn't avaiable for Mac.

The game only runs on 64bit Windows, so you need 64 bit wine as well

Download from Steam isn't possible
by Korbinian on Saturday July 28th 2018, 16:45

Hi

This is the first time for me to download something to WineHQ. I want to download Age o Empires II from Steam but it didn't work. It says that „it's not available for you plattform“. What do I have to change in WineHQ to be able to download it and install it on my Mac?

RE: Download from Steam isn't possible
by Quentin Santos on Sunday July 29th 2018, 3:00

Steam does not integrate Wine. Instead, you have to install Steam with Wine. For instance, I have two installations of Steam on my computer: the native Steam client, with native games like CS:GO or Poral, and the Windows client under Wine, with Age of Empires II.

Multiplayer not working?
by ingreenheaven on Tuesday July 18th 2017, 23:59

Are you able to connect to the multiplayer games since the recent crashes/fix?

Wine version 2.0 doesn't work with Steam's Age of Empires II
by Zach on Wednesday April 19th 2017, 1:06

After the Steam's AOE2 update on April 18th, the game no longer launches with Wine 2.0

RE: Wine version 2.0 doesn't work with Steam's Age of Empires II
by Riley on Sunday April 23rd 2017, 8:17

Seems to be my problem... what wine do you use now? I'm bad at this.

RE: Wine version 2.0 doesn't work with Steam's Age of Empires II
by Zach on Sunday April 23rd 2017, 10:03

Unfortunately, I haven't found one that works yet.

RE: Wine version 2.0 doesn't work with Steam's Age of Empires II
by Andrea Orru on Saturday May 6th 2017, 12:05

Easy fix:
winetricks vcrun2005

RE: Wine version 2.0 doesn't work with Steam's Age of Empires II
by Andrea Orru on Saturday May 6th 2017, 12:06

Sorry. I meant vcrun2015.

RE: Wine version 2.0 doesn't work with Steam's Age of Empires II
by Jose G. López on Sunday May 7th 2017, 3:30

Thanks Andrea, it works!

RE: Wine version 2.0 doesn't work with Steam's Age of Empires II
by ingreenheaven on Tuesday July 18th 2017, 11:17

Are you able to connect to the multiplayer games?

RE: Wine version 2.0 doesn't work with Steam's Age of Empires II
by sofie on Saturday July 1st 2017, 16:40

Urm, sorry, could you perhaps explain that solution a bit more idiotproof for me?
How do make it work? ...I'm not a computer wizzard, just a sentimental AoE junkie...
Thanks a million!!

VCRUN2012 needed again?
by Patrick Maloney on Wednesday March 11th 2015, 15:10

I saw an update come down and now it's complaining about those two dlls. Won't run.

Compatibility with other WINE users
by Cody on Tuesday February 3rd 2015, 23:00

I can play the game with only a few minor bugs with other AOE2 players with Windows but when I try to play with friends we can't voice chat over steam or play online together. It gets stuck on the loading screen

hotkeys
by Andramos on Wednesday December 17th 2014, 18:16

Any chance to make possible to use keyboard on age?

Mouse issues
by pauli on Thursday April 11th 2013, 6:35

The game initially seems to work without any issues. Just setting -nostartup seemed to work with the current version of the game, but I might have all kinds of overrides from other Steam games.

However, upon building more units, buildings and/or exploring the map the game slowly chokes, but it only seems to affect selecting things with the mouse.

The selection rectangle initially just gets a bit choppy but later can lag behind as much as 10 seconds. Same thing with clicking on buildings or even the game menu button, the game might react 10 seconds later. The game is, understandably, unplayable at that point. Mouse scrolling on the other hand remains instant when the cursor reaches the edge.

There are some odd timing related things in the game anyway, so how much of this really has to do with Wine is unclear.

laggy game
by marcel on Thursday April 11th 2013, 1:32

Hi, when i run the game it starts normally but it;s laggy as hell. When i move with mouse the latency is like 10000ms. When i get mouse onto icon like "single player" it takesfor ever to be framed and after that i can click. Click is fast. When i started game it was same. Horrible latency. What can I do to change it? I don;t see anyone with this type of trouble.

Mouse issues scrolling edge
by Andre on Wednesday April 10th 2013, 14:57

Did someone recognize mouse issues too.

For me it is like if I point my cursor in any direction close to the edge, but not so far that it should start scrolling, the map is scrolled a tiny bit in that particular direction. After that tiny bit it stops.

After that pointing even more far to an edge, to actually scroll, it works just fine.

Visual C++ 2012 Runtime no longer needed
by Nell Hardcastle on Wednesday April 10th 2013, 3:33

There was a comment about installing msvcp110.dll and mfc110.dll. These both belong to the VC++ 2012 runtime and was a requirement of the game before build 58061. That was also causing problems on Windows XP, so the developers built against VC++ 2010 (winetricks vcrun2010) only.

This also means both bugs linked (17273 and 31487) no longer apply.

Update to the above
by Tobias Feldballe Petersen on Wednesday April 10th 2013, 3:13

Multiplayer does work too, flawlessly :P

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