Age of Empires

What works

Almost everything works, no to very little lag compared to before and as an added bonus , there is keyboard support, where previously I had none! Directional arrow scrolling anyone?

I needed to copy these dll's , from my windows/system32/ folder on my Windows XP 64bit system as I am dual boot, into the folder for it the work much better, though note that it takes a couple seconds longer to load up. I haven't managed to determine which files are essential yet but I will try to figure that out later when I have time, or one of you can help me in doing so.

advapi32.dll
apphelp.dll
avifil32.dll
clbcatq.dll
comctl32.dll
comres.dll
crypt32.dll
dciman32.dll
ddraw.dll
ddrawex.dll
dsound.dll
fltlib.dll
gdi32.dll
imagehlp.dll
imm32.dll
mciavi32.dll
midimap.dll
msacm32.dll
msasn1.dll
msctf.dll
msctfime.ime
msvcrt.dll
msvfw32.dll
msvidc32.dll
netapi32.dll
ntdll.dll
ole32.dll
oleaut32.dll
secur32.dll
shell32.dll
shlwapi.dll
user32.dll
usp10.dll
winmm.dll
ws2_32.dll
ws2help.dll
wsock32.dll

The technique I used for deciding to use these dlls was to start the game in windows, run processexplorer from sysinternals.com, select the game's process from the list and make note of which dlls were loaded for it.Then copy those dlls into the game folder in linux and test in wine to see if there is better performance.

There is a debug function for wine in the help &documentation section of this website that can help narrow down the dlls, but I will look at that later as I mentioned before.

What does not

The music doesn't work yet(but the sound effects do now):

I believe once the following midi error has been resolved either through my efforts or another the game will run perfectly.Note that this is one line of this error repeating for different tracks.

fixme:mcimidi:MIDI_mciPlay NIY: MIDI port=0, track=1

Workarounds

What was not tested

Well , I haven't played through the whole game yet to know what hasn't been tested yet.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

To prevent installer windows from being hidden, change Wine's settings so that the window manager is not allowed to control Wine applications (can be done with winecfg).

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.

Crack
If the game does not recognice your CD, you may need to use a crack. This may or may not be legal, depending on where you live.

Multiplayer
To get multiplayer working, place the following DLLs in Wine's windows/system32 directory, then start winecfg and add dll overrides (native, builtin) for them: dplayx, dpnet, dpnhpast and dpwsockx.
NOTE: the game freezes when exiting a multiplayer game.