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Age of Wonders

Version from original CD-ROM plus patch 1.36

Application Details:

Version: 1.36
License: Retail
URL: http://www.triumphstudios.com/...
Votes: 2
Latest Rating: Garbage
Latest Wine Version Tested: 1.6

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What works

Everything not listed below.  Much slower than on Windows, but on a modern computer its still quite playable overall.

What does not

Intro movie doesn't work, nor does multiplayer out of the box (winetricks DirectPlay fixes that problem).  Game occasionally freezes on win/loss and when loading a new game.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Nothing.

Hardware tested

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Additional Comments

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Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?
RatingSubmitter
ShowUbuntu 13.04 "Raring" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Aug 28 20131.6Yes No NoGarbagean anonymous user 
ShowUbuntu 11.04 "Natty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Sep 26 20111.3.28Yes Yes NoGoldjamie 
ShowUbuntu 11.04 "Natty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Jul 30 20111.3.25Yes No NoGarbagejamie 
ShowUbuntu 10.10 "Maverick" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Jan 30 20111.2.2Yes Yes NoGoldan anonymous user 
ShowUbuntu 10.04 "Lucid" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Jun 09 20101.2-rc2Yes Yes NoGoldFelipe Moraes 

Known Bugs

Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
4066 Online Play Doesn't Work (DirectPlay) NEW View

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HowTo / Notes

HOWTO
Install and setup

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.

HOW-TO FIX INTRO MOVIE

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.



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