Application Details:
| Version: | Thrones and Patriots Gold |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://www.microsoft.com/games... |
| Votes: | 4 |
| Latest Rating: | Bronze |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 8.8 |
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What works
With the specific workarounds, the game runs perfectly
What does not
There are workarounds for all of them. 1 the game would not install, 2 the sound was not working, 3 the menus were not responsive (one had to press the right button first, keep it pressed and press the left one; at any rate the drop down menus didn't work).
Graphics are corrupted as mentioned in Bug 43590
Workarounds
0. Install in a new win32 prefix; I keep one only for this game. In winecfg I selected Windows7 and made no other changes. I didn't install any Directx from winetricks.
1. Install with winetricks: corefonts; mfc42 (necessary to install the game); mfc40; msxml4; vcrun6. Install the game calling Setup.exe in the game CD or ISO.
2. To enable audio: [prefix] winetricks sound=alsa
[prefix] winetricks directmusic
[prefix] winetricks directplay
3. To enable mouse and have responsive menus: edit rise2.ini in: /home/USER/.wine32/drive_c/users/alberto/Application Data/Microsoft Games/Rise of Nations (replace "USER" with actual user)
Change the following:
ForceHardwareCursor=1
ForceGDICursor=1
ForceLowCPUBackgroundVid=1
What was not tested
Multiplayer
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
As I already said: I strongly advise to make a specific 32 prefix for the game (2 GB in all). When I installed it in another prefix, with some directx dlls in it, the graphics was very buggy.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Manjaro Linux 23 | Jun 29 2023 | 8.8 | No, but has workaround | Yes | Yes | Bronze | Bob Niemöller | |
| Show | Arch Linux | May 14 2023 | 8.7 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Silver | Krock | |
| Show | Manjaro Linux 21.3 | Jul 03 2022 | 7.10 | No, but has workaround | Yes | Yes | Bronze | Bob Niemöller | |
| Current | Linux Mint 19.3 "Tricia" | Jan 02 2020 | 4.16 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Silver | alberto | |
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Aug 05 2018 | 3.13 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Bronze | Isira Seneviratne |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 657 | Many games and applications need 'mfc42.dll' ('winetricks -q mfc42' is a workaround) | NEW | View | |
| 17614 | Rise of Nations: Both mouse keys required for single left-click | NEW | View | |
| 43590 | Rise of Nations Thrones & Patriots weird graphics | NEW | View | |
| 53306 | Rise of Nations Thrones and Patriots: Intros and menu background video not showing (missing Windows Media Video 7 decoder) | UNCONFIRMED | View |
You may have difficulty joining online multiplayer games. To resolve this, read this article from the FAQ.
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.
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by Phil on Friday July 27th 2018, 23:01
MSXML4 has been the bane of my existence with this game, nothing i did would fix it
wine version 2.22 Staging
OS = Windows XP / Windows 7 (in the end i set it to Windows Vista
by Ilya on Sunday December 31st 2017, 11:22
I'd used wineprefix linked with separated directory. Before installing I executed next commands:
export WINEPREFIX="my/home/dir/my/game/dir"
wineboot -u
Then I installed everything wine wants (mono and gecko)
winetricks sound=pulse
winetricks directx9
winecfg
In opened window, section libraries, I removed all overrides. Then:
winetricks directmusic
cd dir/with/rise.exe
wine rise.exe
And it works! Cursor and sound too.
Thanks!
by dmknght on Thursday September 1st 2016, 11:11
www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-bugs/2014-February/378415.html
I tried install wmp9 and everything is ok now
by Dglider on Wednesday March 30th 2016, 11:54
I used a fresh copy of Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" amd64.
A fresh copy of Wine 1.9.6
And a fresh copy of Winetricks
The date is March 30th, 2016.
Using winetricks I installed the following .dlls:
dx3dx9 MS d3dx9_??.dll from DirectX 9 redistributable. (To get the ingame menu working)
directmusic (To get sound working)
dsound (Im unsure if this one was necessary)
directplay (To get networking working)
vcrun6 (For the installer to work, i believe)
vcrun6sp6 (For the installer to work, i believe)
The rest of the .dlls were automatically selected by winetricks.
I then updated the rise2.ini file to include SkipIntroMovies=1 and ForceLowCPUBackgroundVid=1
After forwarding the necessary port on the router(Default:34987), I was able to connect the the game my brother was hosting.
I have no idea if my computer would be able to host a game.
directplay is REQUIRED to host a multiplayer game.
by hynner on Friday June 5th 2015, 12:34
bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20041
I can confirm that LAN game works fine with version 1.7.43 even over hamachi. In fact the whole game works just fine (I had to install mfc40, mfc42, msxml4 and possibly directplay).
by Sisinda Dinusha on Friday April 10th 2015, 0:47