Anno 2070

What works

Playing the game works with no issues so far.

What does not

The problem is the crappy Uplay installer they ship with their Steam version. You can't enter the activation key because some tiny error window pops up. (You then have to kill that process. The name is something with tmp and it doesn't have exe in the name.) Without registration you can't play the game.

Workarounds

I came up with the workaround from similar Windows issues. So it's for the most part not only related to wine. I used a guide from a forum located here: https://www.annothek.net/wbb4/... (Use the files at your own risk!)

1. Make sure you have mscorefonts installed as the Uplay window will be blank without it. E.g., use: winetricks corefonts
2. Set Windows version to Windows 10.
3. Download the game from Steam but under no circumstances start it.
4. Download the zip file from the above link: https://www.annothek.net/wbb4/...
5. Open the install directory. Most likely: ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Anno 2070
6. Rename or remove Anno5.exe and AutoPatcher.exe. you won't need them later.
7. Unpack autopatcher.exe (10.1 MB) from the archive and put it in the dirctory.
8. For both variants run the patcher repeatedly (!) until it succeeds. Ignore any error messages related to server not found: First run wine autopatcher.exe and then run it with the following arguments to patch the addon wine autopatcher.exe addon /autostart.
9. It should then start with an updated version of uplay and everything should go fine.

To start the game run wine Anno5.exe, wait some time and then kill it. Then it should start the game and everything should run.

What was not tested

Multiplayer.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Nvidia
• Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments