Application Details:
| Version: | 1.0 |
| License: | |
| URL: | |
| Votes: | 5 |
| Latest Rating: | Gold |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 6.3 |
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What works
Nearly everything works well.
What does not
At the end of the install process, the game crashes. You have to kill it, change your current directory to the game root dir, and then 'wine civ2.exe'.
Workarounds
What was not tested
Everything was tested.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Gentoo Linux x86_64 | Mar 08 2021 | 6.3 | No, but has workaround | Yes | Yes | Gold | Montjoie | |
| Show | Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Feb 01 2013 | 1.5.22 | Yes | No | Garbage | an anonymous user | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Mar 01 2013 | 1.4.1 | N/A | Yes | Bronze | an anonymous user | ||
| Show | Slackware 12.1 | Oct 21 2011 | 1.3.31 | Yes | No | Garbage | an anonymous user | ||
| Show | Slackware 12.1 | Oct 02 2011 | 1.3.29 | Yes | No | Garbage | an anonymous user |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 2181 | Civilization 2: crashes because of WM_SETFOCUS message | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 5349 | Wine crashes on attempt to run SimTower with sound | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 6495 | Civilization 2 crashes on load after game complains about audio driver | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 6927 | Civilization 2: civ2.exe and civ2map.exe dont start (unhandled exeption) | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 11064 | Civ2 crashes before game. | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 12871 | Civilization 2 Test of Time is Unplayable | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 20816 | Civilization II crashes on startup when sound is enabled in Wine | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 21069 | 16 bit apps crashes on exit | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 21087 | Civilization 2 crashes during installation | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 23253 | Civilization II crashes when trying to start a new game | CLOSED | ABANDONED | View |
| 53008 | winevdm crash playing Civilization 2 | UNCONFIRMED | View |
I can no longer locate any official patches or the microprose website, but I managed to find patches here
http://www.civfanatics.com/civ2/downloads/
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