Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords

Retail versions between 1.0 to 1.5.

Application Details:

Version:	1.x
License:	Retail
URL:	http://www.galciv2.com/
Votes:	22
Latest Rating:	Platinum
Latest Wine Version Tested:	1.5.2

Maintainers: About Maintainership

Maquis196

Test Results

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Selected Test Results

What works

* installing

* running with wine GalCiv2.exe

* Opening video

* Options

What does not

* New Game

* Campaign

Workarounds

What was not tested

* Metaverse

Hardware tested

Graphics:

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	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Apr 14 2012	1.5.2	Yes	Yes	No	Platinum	an anonymous user
Show	Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Jun 01 2010	1.2-rc1	Yes	Yes	No	Silver	emkay
Show	Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Jul 21 2009	1.1.25	Yes	Yes	No	Silver	lwolf
Show	Linux Mint 5 "Elyssa"	Apr 13 2009	1.1.19	Yes	Yes	No	Silver	an anonymous user
Current	Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Apr 09 2009	1.1.18	Yes	No	No	Garbage	an anonymous user

HowTo / Notes

Adding msttcorefonts

GalCiv2 requires a number of TrueType fonts to be available.

On Ubuntu and Debian these are found in a package called msttcorefonts. This can be found in the non free Universe repository and installed using your favourite package manager such as Synaptic, or via the command line:

$ sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

Fixing mouse pointer

Mouse pointer changes to large white square block in Options menu. Enabling hardware mouse cursor in Video options menu corrects this but leaves block on screen until options are saved and game restarted.

Font artefacts

There are minor artefacts on some text when running in Windows XP emulation. Switching to Windows 98 resolution corrects this. This has been logged as a bug.

Carriage returns are not rendered correctly and were shown as a box outline in Wine prior to 0.9.34, and as a '<' since. Although cosmetically distracting this has not caused any major problems with gameplay so far.

Ship Textures

On my ATI graphics card using the fglrx driver there are no textures displayed for ships.

A workaround is to Disable Ship Textures in the Video Options menu.

Fix for the 'Out of memory' error

1.) When does this happen:

This error is thrown when the game used up all the allocated memory (RAM) and there is no more left to complete the game saving process, and results in a crash and possibly corrupted save games.

2.) Why does this happen:

It usually happens on immense galaxies with abundant planets and many races and units on the map at the same time.

Those conditions result in a huge amount of RAM being used. This game is a 32bit game, which means that it can only access a maximum of 2Gb RAM. (So no, this error is not caused by WINE)

3.) How can this be fixed / worked around:

Luckily, there are tools out there to trick 32bit applications into using 4Gb RAM (which is the maximum amount of RAM that a 32bit system can use as a whole). Even more fortunate is the fact that this game works perfectly with this "patch".

The tool can be downloaded here

Just run "wine 4gb_patch.exe {path_to_game_exe}" and that's it. The tool will automatically back up the original executable so there's no need to do that manually.

After that's done (it should be done in an instant) you can run the game just like you normally would.

4.) Possible issues:

If your system has less or exactly 4Gb RAM and your game will somehow use all of them, this might cause problems for your other applications and possibly even for your operating system, because there may not be any more RAM free for anything on your machine.

I'm not sure how Linux (or Mac) reacts when all RAM is used up, but I'd recommend closing all non-essential applications while playing this game with this path, because this game eats through your RAM like there's no tomorrow when you play on big maps.

If your system has more than 4Gb RAM then there shouldn't be any issue at all.

Comments

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Starting new game or campaign freeze!
by lwolf on Thursday April 9th 2009, 13:25

When starting new game or campaign in GC2 (demo and Dread Lords also tested), not just Wine, but also X Server stops responding!! => only Reset button helps.
(Galactic Civilization 1 working fine on this config)

- Wine 1.1.18 + DirectX 9 DLL overrides
- ATI Radeon 9600 card with AMD fglrx 8.582 driver (3D OpenGL works)
- 1 GB RAM
- 2,4GHz Celeron
- Ubuntu 8.10

I have no idea... :(