Application Details:
| Version: | 1.0 |
| License: | |
| URL: | http://www.microsoft.com/games... |
| Votes: | 2 |
| Latest Rating: | Bronze |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 1.6.2 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Game installs and appears run properly. Once single left mouse button click needing both mouse buttons at the same time was corrected via a work around (see below), I could change all the in game graphical settings to high and 1600x1200 resolution display which would show with the correct aspect ratio and there did not appear to be any graphical flaws that I could see.
What does not
The mouse would not do a single left click without pressing both left and right mouse buttons. The game was unusable this way as I could not open drop down menus to change game settings. The work around that worked for me was to open ".wine/drive_c/users/gaming/Application Data/Microsoft Games/Rise of Nations/rise2.ini" in notepad and change the following setting from 0 to 1.
ForceLowCPUBackgroundVid=0
Sound does not work at all. I couldn't find a work around that worked that didn't involve using winetricks which I don't want to use so that the developers here have the proper data they need to fix this issue.
Workarounds
What was not tested
Playing any full game. I just spent a few minutes in a quick game to see if things worked.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
System specifications: LinuxMint 17 XFCE 64-bit CPU - AMD Phenom II X6 1055T (2.8Ghz) RAM - 4GB GPU - AMD HD5770 1GB Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5, v2.1, F6 BIOS version Chipset - AMD 890FX and AMD SB850 Sound card - HT Omega Striker 7.1 Using AMD proprietary graphic driver 14.6 beta 7/14/2014. Shows as version 14.20-140529a-173820E in AMDCCCLE.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Current | Linux Mint 17 "Qiana" x86_64 | Jul 26 2014 | 1.6.2 | Yes | Yes | Bronze | an anonymous user | ||
| Show | Arch Linux | Jan 04 2013 | 1.5.20 | Yes | Yes | Bronze | an anonymous user | ||
| Show | Scientific Linux 6 | Jul 04 2012 | 1.2.3 | Yes | No | Garbage | an anonymous user | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Sep 23 2010 | 1.3.3 | Yes | Yes | Bronze | Matrim Cauthon | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | May 23 2010 | 1.1.44 | Yes | Yes | Bronze | an anonymous user |
Installation
The following DLLs are required to install and run Rise of Nations:
You may have difficulty joining online multiplayer games. To resolve this, read this article from the FAQ.
There is a cursor bug that can:
To work around this, edit the rise2.ini file (~/.wine/drive_c/users/{user}/Application Data/Microsoft Games/Thrones and Patriots Trial/rise2.ini) and set "ForceGDICursor=1".
Please report if you had to do this when submitting reports.
