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 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Conquer The World-campaign (complete, ~1h)
Saving/Loading
What does not
Installation due to entering of CD-key error (pidgen.dll)
Intro movies/Cinematics
Sound in-game
Menu background image missing
Distorted graphics/shadows in scenarios
Workarounds
Installation issue fixed with winetricks mfc42
Menu background image is brought back with ForceLowCPUBackgroundVid=1 in game config file
Sound in-game fixed with winetricks directmusic
What was not tested
Multiplayer
Other campaigns than Conquer the World
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Tested in clean 64-bit prefix with no additional overrides than described in "Workarounds".
When installing the Thrones and Patriots-expansion a popup appears with an error for "Was unable to find (or could not read) the language-specific resource download, unable to continue. please reboot and try again". A thread over at Toms Hardware shows that this is a bug in the game and the provided workaround worked.
The workaround from Toms Hardware works as following:
Perhaps if you use another installation language this issue might be resolved using one of the other language folders present (DE/FR/IT/SP/UK). My OS is in english so I use the UK one.
My version is the Gold edition DVD (1x disc) which is fully updated with the last patches for standalone-versions.
The garbled graphics really is a downer, but nothing functional is affected by it. All movements, units, sight lengths etc are working as expected which makes the game playable.
RTX 3070, driver 550.78
i9-10900K
Kernel 6.1.90-1
Budgie DE
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Current | Manjaro Linux 24 | May 15 2024 | 9.8 | No, but has workaround | Yes | Yes | Bronze | Bob Niemöller | |
| 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 | |
| Show | Linux Mint 19.3 "Tricia" | Jan 02 2020 | 4.16 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Silver | alberto |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 657 | Many games and applications need 'mfc42.dll' ('winetricks -q mfc42' is a workaround) | NEW | View | |
| 9027 | No sound for rise of nations - all versions | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 17144 | Rise of Nations Unhandled Exception | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 17614 | Rise of Nations: Both mouse keys required for single left-click | NEW | View | |
| 18601 | Many games and applications crash due to incorrect handling of TLS slots in urlmon (Google Sketchup 7, TomeRaider3, Sling Player 2.0, Counter Strike Source, Troopmaster 2009, Warhammer Online) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 20041 | DirectPlay8 requires some IP_ADAPTER_UNICAST_ADDRESS parameters to be correct in GetAdaptersAddresses (Rise of Nations, Two Worlds, Cultures Northland) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 25287 | Rise of Nations Gold Edition Nuclear Blast Effect Looks Awful | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 25303 | MSXML4 parser treats tabs as characters | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 25308 | Rise of Nations installer hangs on "Removing icons..." | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 30962 | Rise of Nations Gold Edition : the characters animation is weird | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 43590 | Rise of Nations Thrones & Patriots weird graphics | NEW | View | |
| 46104 | winepulse-PulseAudio_Support patch cause application to hang with native dsound.dll | CLOSED | FIXED | 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