Age of Empires III complete collection available on steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/105450
Application Details:
| Version: | Steam version |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://www.ageofempires3.com/ |
| Votes: | 0 |
| Latest Rating: | Silver |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 4.18-staging |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Everything with workarounds
What does not
1) game does not start
2) Game ask for serial at launch but you can not enter it, even if it is the right serial.
3) game ask for Frauenhoser librairy
Workarounds
set WIne config OS to XP
and override this DLL with WInetricks:
winetricks corefonts l3codecx mfc42
will resolve the 3 problems above.
What was not tested
nothing
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
You don't need to install quartz, dsound, d3dx9 or dotnet2 anymore with this new Wine version, nice work Wine team ;)
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Gentoo Linux x86_64 | Nov 01 2019 | 4.18-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Silver | nva | |
| Show | Rosa Fresh 2016.1 | May 12 2019 | 4.8-staging | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Giovanni Mariani | |
| Current | Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu) | Sep 20 2018 | 3.16 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Le Gluon du Net | |
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Mar 13 2018 | 3.3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Emeraude | |
| Show | Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful" i386 (+variants like Kubuntu) | Jan 23 2018 | 2.0.4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Riki |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 657 | Many games and applications need 'mfc42.dll' ('winetricks -q mfc42' is a workaround) | NEW | View | |
| 20456 | Multiple applications have text rendering issues with 'Courier New' font using distro provided Liberation fonts (cut off/partial text display)(FEAR, AoE 3, Supreme Commander, fasmw 1.x) | STAGED | View | |
| 34565 | Setting shadows detail to medium or higher in Age Of Empires III creates a lot of colorfull artifacts | UNCONFIRMED | View |
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by ZleNaes on Thursday June 28th 2018, 9:16
(winetricks --force corefonts dsound l3codecx quartz, winetricks -q mfc42 ,winetricks d3dx9, winetricks dotnet20), but the CD Key input doesnt work properly. I can't write all 25 numbers but just 24 or less.
Im using Ubuntu 16.04. Any Idea how to solve this problem?
by BumbaGET on Tuesday October 30th 2018, 13:35