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Category: Main Games Strategy Games Real-Time Strategy Rise of Nations Thrones and Patriots Gold

Rise of Nations

Final release of Rise of Nations with the expansion pack.

Application Details:

Version: Thrones and Patriots Gold
License: Retail
URL: http://www.microsoft.com/games...
Votes: 5
Latest Rating: Bronze
Latest Wine Version Tested: 9.8

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What works

Installation

(and after steps described below)

Menu

Sound

Single Player



What does not

Introduction movies

Workarounds

What was not tested

Multiplayer

Hardware tested

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Additional Comments

Pidgen.dll has to be copied from installation media (CD1) to .wine/drive_c/windows/sytem32/ folder. Game did not start after installing directx9 with winetricks. Only used: "winetricks mfc42". At the end of installation game installs MSXML parser 4.0. Without directx9 game started, but no response in ingame menu. Not even after editing rise2.ini. Used old directx9 from: http://www.oldapps.com/directx.php?old_directx=10 [DirectX 9.0c (Dec 2005) lucky pick, wanted and old version, released after game itself]. With this directx version single player worked, without sound. Sound works when setting dsound, dmime, dmsynth, dmusic and dswave all to native in Winecfg. Edit rise2.ini for specific needs. Location: .wine/drive_c/users/(username)/Application Data/Microsoft Games/Rise of Nations/rise2.ini My edits (other parts of file left intact): [RISE OF NATIONS] Windowed Width=1400 [Native Resolution of my laptop] Windowed Height=1050 SkipIntroMovies=1 [Intro movies not playing] ForceHardwareCursor=1 [For problem mouse 'click' in ingame menu] ForceGDICursor=1 ForceBWCursor=1 ForceLowCPUBackgroundVid=1 [Forces picture as background in ingame menu, else background black, cause slideshow and video background not working; same as intro movies] Extra info: installation or gameplay failed with Wine 1.6 beause of this http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34238 bug [Wine 1.6 Fails To Initialize Direct X in old Intel cards]. Laptop has Intel 945GM Chipset (i915).

selected in Test Results table below
Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?
RatingSubmitter
ShowManjaro Linux 24May 15 20249.8No, but has workaround Yes YesBronzeBob Niemöller 
ShowManjaro Linux 23Jun 29 20238.8No, but has workaround Yes YesBronzeBob Niemöller 
ShowArch LinuxMay 14 20238.7Yes Yes YesSilverKrock 
ShowManjaro Linux 21.3Jul 03 20227.10No, but has workaround Yes YesBronzeBob Niemöller 
ShowLinux Mint 19.3 "Tricia"Jan 02 20204.16Yes Yes YesSilveralberto 

Known Bugs

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

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HowTo / Notes

Online Multiplayer

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

Cursor Bug

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.

Comments

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MSXML4 Issues
by Phil on Friday July 27th 2018, 23:01
Up until today, I had all but given up hope on EVER playing this game again (I will never use windows as a primary again :) )

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
Yes, it works!
by Ilya on Sunday December 31st 2017, 11:22
Everything works fine. But with some notes.
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!
install wpm9 will make intro video run and fix mouse click on menu not working
by dmknght on Thursday September 1st 2016, 11:11
After I ran debug Rise of Nation, i have found this bug
www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-bugs/2014-February/378415.html
I tried install wmp9 and everything is ok now
I did a LAN game with by brother.
by Dglider on Wednesday March 30th 2016, 11:54
If the installer doesn't work, you can copy the game files and export registry information from another computer. Just be sure to change any file paths in the exported registry file.

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.
LAN game
by hynner on Friday June 5th 2015, 12:34
If LAN game doesn't work for you upgrade to wine >= 1.7.41, there was a bug fixed in that version that was causing some problems in RoN.

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).
Fix for PIDGEN.DLL error
by Sisinda Dinusha on Friday April 10th 2015, 0:47
Install mfc42 and mfc40 using winetricks
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