The Settlers IV

The original games, without the Trojan expansion.

Application Details:

Version:	1.0-2.50.1516
License:	Retail
URL:	https://www.gog.com/game/the_s...
Votes:	0
Latest Rating:	Gold
Latest Wine Version Tested:	1.3.26

Maintainers: About Maintainership

Aaron Franke

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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

Playing the game, most of the time.

What does not

Hardware acceleration. Occasional freeze, related to WINE_ALSA. Copy protection didnt work for me, so I had to use a no-cd exe.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Casting a Voodoo hex on the game

Hardware tested

Graphics:

GPU:
Driver:

Additional Comments

Had to config the GameSettings.cfg to not use Fullscreen, ie. setting it to 0. Failing to do so would set the X resolution to 640*480, and the game wouldnt display any gui. Running the game with LandscapeHardware=1 does actually work for me in the sence that it doesnt crash. However, I cant use hardware acceleration once entering the game. I also set the GameSettings.cfg to Read-Only, as it would otherwise turn Fullscreen back on, causing X to go bonkers the next time it was run.

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	Arch Linux x86_64	Aug 26 2011	1.3.26	Yes	Yes	No	Gold	Max Roder
Show	Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	May 27 2011	1.3.20	Yes	Yes	No	Silver	an anonymous user
Show	Gentoo Linux	Oct 31 2010	1.3.5	Yes	Yes	No	Gold	Emanuele
Show	Fedora 11	Dec 31 2009	1.1.32	Yes	No	No	Garbage	an anonymous user
Show	Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Sep 05 2009	1.1.29	Yes	Yes	No	Platinum	Suppen

Known Bugs

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HowTo / Notes

HOWTO

In order to install the BlueByte Game Channel software (required for Internet play), place cabinet.dll in Wine's windows/system32 directory (normally ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32). Then start winecfg and add a dll override for cabinet.
If the game runs slowly, use a Wine version prior to 0.9.16. Then you'll have to follow the instructions below; newer Wine versions run this game out of the box

Instructions for old Wine versions

If Settlers IV crashes when starting a game, edit 'Config/GameSettings.cfg' in the directory where you installed the game, and set 'LandscapeHardware' to 0.
Add a DLL override (this can be done with winecfg) for 'Exe/S4_Main.exe', so that it uses 'native' 'msvcrt' (msvcrt is installed with the game)

It is recommended to upgrade to the latest version, as you may have copy-protection problems otherwise.

Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting

The game runs slowly
Try switching to 16 bit colour depth. Use your distribution's program for changing display/graphics settings, or change DefaultDepth in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

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