Age of Wonders

What works

Everything that tested works, except of intro movie, but see notes.
- Gameplay
- Sound
- Installation
- etc.
Even cursor is properly blanked!
Game runs out-of-box.

What does not

Intro movie.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Fullscreen mode. Multiplayer. Full game walkthrough.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Note: Tested version is 1.36.0054, Polish, distributed by CD Project. It seems it's got some bugs that are not present worldwide. It is nearly sure that your version of the game will not have the problems listed here. *** After upgrade from 0.9.34 to 0.9.53 the game creates an additional black window while starting. It covers the whole screen, gets no focus but is displayed on top. It can be dismissed by Alt-Tab, Alt-F4. I deleted my .wine folder and reinstalled the game, but it didn't remove the problem. However, the game is fully playable. If the black window was closed before quitting the game, AoW displays two errors. However, they do not affect anything. *** No NoCD-Crack was required. No DLL overrides were made. Runs well with Compiz. *** My sys spec: Pentium M 730, 512 MB DDR2, Intel GMA 900 kernel 2.6.22-14, xorg 1:7.2-5ubuntu13, xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.1.1-0ubuntu9.1

Currently Age of Wonders installs and runs out of the box on recent versions of wine.

winecfg settings (for older wine versions)

This isn't needed on wine 1.2.0 or more recent wine versions.

 In order to get Age of Wonders working in wine 1.1.X or lesser you need to follow next steps:

In a terminal run winecfg.

Press "Add and application"

Navigate until you find AoW.exe (usually found at /home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Age of Wonders/AoW.exe ) and press open.

And with AoW.exe selected in Application Settings, go to the Graphics tab and uncheck the "Allow the windows manager to control the windows"

Press Ok and should be done.

Age of Wonders intro movie is enconded with Indeo3.2 video codec [IV32] which can't be found in a standard wine prefix, in order to fix this, IntelVideo codec needs to be installed.

Google for a copy of iv5setup.exe and run:

wine iv5setup.exe

When asked about which type of install do you want, select Custom (this is because Indeo5 codec fails to install and the installation is dropped), then select only, Indeo Video 3.2 codec and Indeo Audio Codec, press next.

If the installer asks about searching for backups press No.

This should fix it and the intro movie will show without problems.