Europa Universalis III

What works

- Singleplayer Mode

- Broder drawing

- Sound

What does not

- Install of .Net 2.0

- Mod administration helper

- tutorials hang EU3 when they are finished

Workarounds

What was not tested

- Multiplayer
- Long term stability (not tested yet)

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

- set KEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/Direct3D/MaxVideoMemory to 128 (or more if your card supports it) - set KEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/DirectSound/MaxShadowSize to 0 - set OffscreenRenderingMode to pbuffer - set d3dxof.dll and msvcp60.dll to native, not builtin - put a copy of d3dxof.dll and msvcp60.dll to the game directory (d3dxof is delivered with the game in the directx cab files. use cabextract. msvcp60.dll is available f.e. on dll-files.com) - the file terrain_2_0.fx will need to get patched to fix the border drawing (details and patch soon) - start the game with "wine eu3game.exe"

• The Setup tries to install Net 2.0 and fails, as a result, you must start eu3game.exe instead of eu3.exe
• You must copy d3dxof.dll and msvcp60.dll into in Wine's windows/system32 directory and set them to (Native/Buildin) in winecfg
  
• Some flags are not drawn, but i'm unable to display them in my Gnome/Gimp either, so i think it's a GTK+ bug ( the flags are stored in GAMEDIRECTORY/gfx/flags as *.tga, if someone knows this bug or a solution please e-mail me )
  
• Set "VideoMemorySize = 128" in ~/.wine/user.reg
• You have to set "OffscreenRenderingMode = fbo", because in the default mode the MapColors in Political- or Religious- Mapmode are wrong or simply not there
  
• Set "master_volume=-1" in settings.txt to disable sound, otherwise startup will fail with a SegFault in eu3game->dsound->libc ( ! every time you enter the option menu ingame, the master_volume will be set to 0 and the game will die on the next startup ! )
  
• You must setup a virtual desktop in winecfg and put the same values in settings.txt, otherwise the game will crash before it enters the mainmenu ( it seems that the emulated getSystemMetrics() in wine does only work with VirtualDesktop )
• An alternative is to use a Desktop Window IE: wine explorer /desktop=ref,800x600 eu3game.exe
• The Map-Borders are drawn incorrect
• The game hangs for 2 minutes at the and of every tutorial and when you click the back button in the single player menu ( maybe the loading of the menus is extremely slow )