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Total War: Medieval 2

This is the original retail CD version of Medievel 2: Total War. It includes all the patches up to 1.5

 Early test results might be 1.0/1.1/1.2 - Please patch to latest version before submitting test results.

 


Application Details:

Version: Retail CD 1.x
License: Retail
URL: http://www.totalwar.com/
Votes: 27
Latest Rating: Gold
Latest Wine Version Tested: 5.0.1

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What works

I was able to run wine to install the game from the DVDs. Initial install works fine. Patching required winetricks to install .NET to get the launcher to start that was added with the 1.2 patch.

What does not

The launcher that was added in 1.2 patch needs .NET installed but I think that was a problem in windows as well.

I installed .NET via winetricks dotnet35 and dotnet462. Both versions worked

Workarounds

When patching I had to install the .NET framework using winetricks.

3.5 .NET worked for me


I also installed vcrun2012 from winetricks and I installed .NET 4.6.2, dotnet462 and both also worked with the 1.2 patch

What was not tested

I have not played the game that much. I only tested key parts of it. I did quick battles to see if it would run and I started the campaign to see if units would move.

They worked in both cases. Not much was tested after that

Hardware tested

Graphics:

  • GPU: Intel
  • Driver: open source

Additional Comments

One can play the game with a platinum rating if one does not patch it.


Loading screens look strange. Everything else is great


I was the same guy that gave the game a garbage rating. Now I am fixing it by using an external optical drive.

selected in Test Results table below
Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?
RatingSubmitter
CurrentUbuntu 20.04 "Focal" (+ variants like Kubuntu)Jul 20 20205.0.1Yes Yes YesGoldPeter Baumgarten 
ShowFedora 20 x86_64Mar 07 20141.7.13Yes No NoGarbagean anonymous user 
ShowDebian GNU/Linux 6.x "Squeeze"Oct 20 20111.3.30Yes Yes NoGoldan anonymous user 
ShowUbuntu 10.04 "Lucid" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Jul 20 20111.3.24Yes Yes NoPlatinuman anonymous user 
ShowDebian GNU/Linux 6.x "Squeeze"Apr 04 20111.3.16Yes Yes NoGoldan anonymous user 

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HowTo / Notes

HOWTO

This is a quick step-by-step on how to configure Wine to get Medieval II: Total War running (currently as best possbile). This how-to will be updated to as we make progress in getting the game to work.

  1. Download and install a no-CD patch. Currently only the one for game version 1.0 works (the popular no-CD patch for game version 1.1 doesn't work under wine at this time). Usually the installation merely requires extracting an archive and replacing the game EXE file. Before you replace it, be sure to rename the existing 'medieval2.exe' to something like 'medieval2_orig.exe' just in case you need to undo the no-CD patch at a later time.
  2. Run "winetricks" at the command line (make sure you have the latest version installed) and select "d3dx9" from the menu.
HOWTO

This is a general Ubuntu 6.10 How-To, which helped me get this game working (will also help with various other software). I didn't know where to put a general how-to, so I'll put it here for now.

Follow the instructions at http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=297280&highlight=open+%2Fdev%2Fsnd%2Fseq+failed to get all the dependencies that you need under Ubuntu. Especially the following helped me get up and running. In particular this fixed audio, and keyboard and mouse input when there is no cursor present:

sudo aptitude install build-essential flex bison libc6-i386 libc6-dev-i386
sudo aptitude install libasound2-dev libaudiofile-dev libesd0-dev libjack0.100.0-dev
sudo aptitude install libaudio-dev libcapi20-dev liblcms1-dev libcupsys2-dev
sudo aptitude install libsane-dev libfreetype6-dev fontforge freeglut3-dev
sudo aptitude install libexpat1-dev libfontconfig1-dev libgcrypt11-dev libglib1.2-dev
sudo aptitude install libglib2.0-dev libgnutls-dev libgpg-error-dev libice-dev
sudo aptitude install libieee1284-3-dev libjpeg62-dev libldap2-dev libltdl3-dev
sudo aptitude install libmad0-dev libmng-dev libncurses5-dev libogg-dev
sudo aptitude install libopencdk8-dev libpng12-dev libqt3-mt-dev libsm-dev
sudo aptitude install libtasn1-3-dev libusb-dev libvorbis-dev libx11-dev
sudo aptitude install libxcursor-dev libxext-dev libxft-dev libxi-dev
sudo aptitude install libxml2-dev libxmu-dev libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev
sudo aptitude install libxslt1-dev libxt-dev libxv-dev render-dev
sudo aptitude install unixodbc-dev x-dev zlib1g-dev xlibs-dev
sudo aptitude install libxxf86dga-dev libxxf86vm-dev libungif4-dev libssl-dev
sudo aptitude install libgphoto2-dev ia32-libs
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