The Settlers III

The demo version of 'The Quest of the Amazons' add-on.

Application Details:

Version:	Quest of the Amazons: Demo
License:	Demo
URL:	http://www.settlers3.com
Votes:	0
Latest Rating:	Gold
Latest Wine Version Tested:	5.10-staging

Maintainers: About Maintainership

Adrian Kalla

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Test Results

Old test results

The test results for this version are very old, and as such they may not represent the current state of Wine. Please consider submitting a new test report.

Selected Test Results

What works

Installation
Singleplayer demo

What does not

The mouse works only under special conditions - see Bug 49347 for more details.

Workarounds

CSMT disabled and started with taskset -c 0

What was not tested

Multiplayer (requires "winetricks directplay")

Hardware tested

Graphics:

GPU: Nvidia
Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Current	Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu)	Jun 16 2020	5.10-staging	Yes	Yes	Yes	Gold	Adrian Kalla
Show	Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Nov 27 2015	1.7.55	Yes	Yes		Bronze	Adrian Kalla
Show	Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Nov 08 2015	1.7.54	Yes	Yes		Platinum	Adrian Kalla
Show	Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Mar 01 2015	1.7.34	Yes	Yes		Platinum	Adrian Kalla
Show	Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Jan 05 2014	1.7.9	Yes	Yes		Platinum	Adrian Kalla

Known Bugs

Bug #	Description	Status	Resolution	Other apps affected
421	Implement a DIB engine	CLOSED	FIXED	View
1410	Mouse always Recentered	CLOSED	FIXED	View
4066	Online Play Doesn't Work (DirectPlay)	NEW		View
7129	dinput: second mouse device not supported (scroll the map in settlers 3)	CLOSED	FIXED	View
7830	Settlers 3 does not run in fullscreen	CLOSED	FIXED	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 2020-12-20):

5.19-5.22
5.0-5.5
4.5-4.21
4.0.2-4.0.4
1.7.53-1.7.54

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

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 disable CSMT (only easily possible with Wine Staging) and 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

ATTENTION: Using the taskset command without CSMT disabled decreases the performance instead of improving it!

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