Application Details:
| Version: | The Conquerors Expansion: Demo |
| License: | Demo |
| URL: | http://www.microsoft.com/games... |
| Votes: | 0 |
| Latest Rating: | Gold |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 1.5.11 |
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What works
Installing the demo.
Starting the game into the Main Menu( though the Font colors are in black -- trivial)
Playing the game
What does not
In-game music
Workarounds
What was not tested
Multiplayer
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Fedora 17 x86_64 | Sep 14 2012 | 1.5.11 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | an anonymous user | |
| Show | Debian GNU/Linux 5.x "Lenny" | Jan 25 2009 | 1.1.13 | Yes | No | No | Garbage | Dennis Hedegaard | |
| Current | Slackware 12.1 | May 29 2008 | 1.0-rc1 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | abez | |
| Show | Linux From Scratch | Feb 24 2008 | 0.9.56. | N/A | Yes | No | Garbage | David J Kyle | |
| Show | Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Feb 27 2008 | 0.9.51. | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | an anonymous user |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
In Wine versions prior to 0.9.17, elements such as taskbars designed to cover other applications are not hidden when Age of Empires II is run in full-screen. This can be fixed by not allowing the window manager to control Wine applications (can be changed in winecfg), or by changing the taskbar's options so that windows are allowed to cover it.
Multiplayer
To get multiplayer working, place the DLLs in this archive
in Wine's windows/system32 directory. Then, start winecfg and add dll
overrides (native, builtin) for the following DLLs: dplayx, dpnet,
dpnhpast and dpwsockx.
NOTE: the game freezes when exiting a multiplayer game.
Multiplayer
To get multiplayer working you have to use by now the directplay libraries from microsoft, still (since 2006) no open source libraries for direct play that include libraries to open sockets and close to play games, so install winetricks:
(in ubuntu/debian) sudo apt-get install winetricks
and then exec:
winetricks directplay
It will download the directplay libraries from microsoft and install them, that's all, tcp/ip will work with direct connect.
If you get only a black screen upon starting a game
winetricks ddr=gdi (see https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43627)winetricks csmt=off (see https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44796)