Total War: Medieval 2

What works

The installation.

What does not

Everything that is not the installation. 

Workarounds

What was not tested

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

I did install the game via iso files taken from the DVD's I had of the retail game. I mounted them on my file system as my laptop does not have an optical drive. There is an option to install directx3d during the installation of them game. I choose to decline it and instead install direct3d via winetricks. The game would not run with the iso files mounted even though winecfg could find them and identify them as CD-ROM. I applied a no-cd patch and I could run the game but the graphics would not render properly and it would crash before getting to the main menu.

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.
   

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

Do not install directx wine acts as windows and directx under Linux. Submissions with directx installed are invalid and will be deleted.