Rise of Nations

What works

I used winetricks to install steam in a new 64-bit wineprefix, and applied a few workarounds as mentioned below. My results are similar to tahm's previous results, screenshots attached.

What does not

Most UI elements, units, rare resources and other map placements are all invisible.

However gameplay works if you can correctly guess where the UI is.

Other observations:

• In the pre-loading screen, using alt-mouse-move you can drag around the main window and the UI elements separately.
• fixme:d3d11 (with WINEDEBUG=fixme+all) does not appear in the pre-loading screen, it only appears after you start the main game (by clicking the top empty button). This suggests that the invisible elements are problems with existing code and not with missing DX10/DX11 stubs.

Workarounds

• `winetricks devenum directmusic quartz vcrun2015`
• MaxVersionGL = 0x00040003 (DWORD) to HKCU\Software\Wine\Direct3D
  • this number should match your OpenGL version, which you can see by running `glxinfo | grep OpenGL`, version 4.3 becomes 0x00040003
• As described in previous reports, set the following entries in %appdata%\Microsoft Games\Rise of Nations\rise2.ini
  • ForceHardwareCursor=1
  • ForceGDICursor=1
  • ForceLowCPUBackgroundVid=1
  • SkipIntroMovies=1

What was not tested

Most things, because they were invisible

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Nvidia
• Driver: open source

Additional Comments