Rise of Nations

What works

Menus and most gameplay with workaround.

Music (workaround).

What does not

Terrain and fog graphics are garbled

Workarounds

Menus and gameplay were made usable with the workaround found in other tests.

From
https://appdb.winehq.org/objec...:

1. The installer did not work after entering in the product key and presented this error about a missing DLL: "Cannot load pidgin.dll". This can be installed with winetricks:

$ winetricks mfc42

2. Sound did not work at all in game until directmusic was installed (which also installs dsound as a dependency):
$ winetrick directmusic

3. For getting the mouse to work, to disable the video in the background of menus, and to skip the intro movie that doesn't work these settings need to be defined in the "rise2.ini" configuration file:
$ vim drive_c/users/$USER/Application Data/Microsoft Games/Rise of Nations/rise2.ini
[RISE OF NATIONS]
ForceHardwareCursor=1
ForceGDICursor=1
ForceLowCPUBackgroundVid=1

SkipIntroMovies=1

Although the game worked near-flawlessly in the 2.0 releases, 3.0 has caused terrain and shadows to be incredibly buggy. This makes the game very hard to play.

What was not tested

Multiplayer, settings, tutorial campaigns

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Intel
• Driver: open source

Additional Comments

You may have difficulty joining online multiplayer games.  To resolve this, read this article from the FAQ.

There is a cursor bug that can:

• Cause the mouse buttons to not do what you expect; or
• Cause a transparency problem with the cursor; or
  
• All of the above
  

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.