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The Settlers III

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The multiplayer version of the demo.

Application Details:

Version: Multiplayer demo
License: Demo
URL: http://www.settlers3.com
Votes: 0
Latest Rating: Bronze
Latest Wine Version Tested: 1.7.55

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What works

  • Installation
  • Singleplayer demo

What does not

Workarounds

What was not tested

  • Multiplayer (requires "winetricks directplay")

Hardware tested

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Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?		RatingSubmitter
ShowUbuntu 14.04 "Trusty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Nov 27 20151.7.55Yes Yes NoBronzeAdrian Kalla 
ShowUbuntu 14.04 "Trusty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Nov 08 20151.7.54Yes Yes NoPlatinumAdrian Kalla 
CurrentUbuntu 13.10 "Saucy" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Jan 05 20141.7.9Yes Yes NoPlatinumAdrian Kalla 
ShowUbuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Jul 15 20091.1.25Yes No NoGarbageJaime Rave Torres 

Known Bugs

Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
4066 Online Play Doesn't Work (DirectPlay) NEW View
19333 The Settlers III demo hangs while starting CLOSED DUPLICATE View
32478 The Settlers III heavy performance issue on multicore cpus NEW View
38169 The Settlers 3 eats a full CPU core, even on a Intel Core i7 UNCONFIRMED View
49347 Settlers III: mouse not working on start screen, game entry and statistics screen after a game, if "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows" is on in winecfg CLOSED FIXED View

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HowTo / Notes

Wine versions recommended for The Settlers 3

The Settlers 3 and the aLobby work without major issues only with the following Wine versions* (as of 2024-08-05):

  • 8.15+ (and probably some earlier 8.x versions)
  • 5.19-5.22
  • 5.0-5.5
  • 4.5-4.21
  • 4.0.2-4.0.4
  • 1.7.53-1.7.54

* tested versions were usually the "Staging" versions


Below is a list of versions known to cause major problems:

  • Wine versions starting with 8.16 introduced some strange problems when trying to start the VPN of the aLobby for Multiplayer gaming
    • Fixed with newer aLobby versions
  • Wine versions starting with 6.0-rc1 introduced major crash issues ("Structured Exception" / "SE") into the game
  • Wine versions between 5.6 and 5.18 cause mouse problems when starting the game (bug 49347)
  • Wine versions 5.7 and 5.8 cause problems with the aLobby. Fixed in Wine 5.9.
  • Wine version 5.6 breaks the aLobby VPN (bug 48937). Fixed in Wine 5.7.
  • Wine versions starting with 1.7.55 and below 4.0.2 (on the stable branch) and below 4.5 (on the devel-branch) introduced major mouse problems into the game (bug 38087)
    • On the staging-branch the affected versions are all below 1.9.0
  • Wine versions below 1.7.53 crash on the Settlers 3 intro-movie (bug 5771) (the workaround for this bug is to disable the intro in the S3-settings)
  • Wine versions below 1.5.26 cause freezes in multi player games (bug 29499)
Performance issues


This game requires much more processing power than it should, so unless you are using a relatively fast computer, it may run slowly (Bug 32478 and Bug 38169).

The used graphics card may also be of importance here: with NVIDIA (binary driver) the game is the fastest on Linux, with INTEL the slowest.


A workaround which makes at least the lag occurring every few seconds go away, is to start Settlers 3 on 1 CPU only with:

taskset -c 0 wine S3.EXE

If you want to play online using the aLobby, you have to start the aLobby the same way:

taskset -c 0 wine alobby.exe

Hint: taskset is only available on Linux, not on macOS


Only applicable to old Wine versions (< 8.0):

  • Disabling CSMT (only easily possible with Wine Staging) increases the performance
  • ATTENTION: Using the above taskset command without CSMT disabled decreases the performance instead of improving it!

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