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Sid Meier's Railroads!

Version 1.x

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Application Details:

Version: 1.x
License: Retail
URL: http://www.sidmeiersrailroads....
Votes: 3
Latest Rating: Platinum
Latest Wine Version Tested: 2.2

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Test Results

Old test results
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Selected Test Results

What works

Local play.

To reduce crashes, had to run the 3gb patch http://smrsimple.com/2010/11/s...

Did not add any DLL overrides.

Running in windowed mode inside a virtual window.

What does not

Workarounds

What was not tested

I have not run it long enough to verify it won't crash.

Only tested in windowed mode.  Did not test in full screen mode.

Did not test online pay.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

  • GPU:
  • Driver:

Additional Comments

Ran this, inside wine, to patch the game. http://smrsimple.com/2010/11/simple-guide-to-the-3gb-enabler/

selected in Test Results table below
Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?
RatingSubmitter
CurrentUbuntu 16.04 "Xenial" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Mar 14 20172.2Yes Yes NoPlatinumdavid 
ShowArch Linux x86_64Jul 14 20161.9.14Yes Yes NoGoldan anonymous user 
ShowLinux Mint 17.3 "Rosa" x86_64Mar 02 20161.9.4Yes Yes NoGarbagean anonymous user 
ShowGentoo Linux x86_64Jun 02 20121.5.3Yes Yes NoPlatinumAndrew Aladjev 
ShowGentoo Linux x86_64Jun 02 20121.5.3Yes Yes NoGoldAndrew Aladjev 

Known Bugs

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HowTo / Notes

HOWTO
Installing/running doesn't work out of the box, but following the instructions from Godfrey Payans, which I copy-paste here for your convenience, I get the game installed and running.

- Make new directory.
- Set WINEPREFIX to new directory.
- Create $WINEPREFIX/drive_c and $WINEPREFIX/dosdevices.
- cd dosdevices
- ln -s ../drive_c c:
- ln -s /mnt/cdrom d:
- Run wineprefixcreate.
- Load CD image with cdemu, and mount it on /mnt/cdrom.
- wine d:\\setup.exe
- Copy cracked RailRoad.exe over original version.
- Copy d3dx9_28.dll from real Windows install to windows/system32.
- Copy msxml* from real Windows install to windows/system32.
- Run regsrv32 msxml3.dll
- Run winecfg to set
graphics to a 1024x768 virtual desktop
library override to native for msxml3.dll
map shell folders
- Run game, which went to hung screen and cheerful music.
- Edit Settings.ini file in My Documents/My Games/... to set
SkipOpeningMovies = 1
VBlankSynch = 0
- Run game.

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