Application Details:
| Version: | 1.0 Demo |
| License: | Demo |
| URL: | http://www.microsoft.com/games... |
| Votes: | 0 |
| Latest Rating: | Gold |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 1.1.29 |
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What works
With wine 0.9.45 almost everything works. Maybe a few fuzzy fonts (not bad at all), played a solo game with 1 computer with no problems, but played a solo game with 7 computers and went flawless for about 10 minutes before crashing. The graphics were pretty much identical to playing in XP, though I had to setup the linux Nvidia binary driver.
What does not
Besides a crash, I found no functionality that didn't work.
Workarounds
What was not tested
Did not try the learn as you go option, nor did I change many basic setup options (simply varied number of computer opponents). I
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Had one hard crash when playing with 7 computers.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Sep 13 2009 | 1.1.29 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | mizipzor | |
| Show | Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | May 25 2009 | 1.1.22 | Yes | No | No | Garbage | Ken Sharp | |
| Show | Fedora 7 | Dec 27 2007 | 0.9.49. | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Hamish Paul Wilson | |
| Current | Ubuntu 7.04 "Feisty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Sep 16 2007 | 0.9.45. | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | an anonymous user | |
| Show | Ubuntu 7.04 "Feisty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jul 21 2007 | 0.9.41. | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | an anonymous user |
Cursor Bug
To get around the cursor/pointer bug, you will need to edit the "/home/test/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Rise of Nations Trial" file and set ForceGDICursor=1.
There is a cursor bug that can:
To work around this, edit the rise2.ini file (~/.wine/drive_c/users/{user}/Application Data/Microsoft Games/Thrones and Patriots Trial/rise2.ini) and set "ForceGDICursor=1".
Please report if you had to do this when submitting reports.
