Empire at War installs but won't run

[Unifying Theory]

Hey guys,

Anyone out there still playing this game? I have the regular release on disc.
It looks like others have had success getting this to work, so I need your help figuring out how.

It installs and then I can apply the 1.5 update, but it crashes when trying to run.

Wine version: 4.0.3
Linux Mint 19.1

Thanks in advance!

[jkfloris]

According to a user on the AppDB there is a bug in Empire at War (or in Wine):

My Wine installation uses the french locale, and for some reason the game doesn't properly start when it was installed that way. It will display the splash screen and then exit immediately without even an error message.
WINEDEBUG=warn+all helps you see what's wrong.

In this case, I had several files in the Data/ directory that the game was looking for with a _english name. Sure enough, those files didn't exist, but they did with _french. A symbolic link solved the issue.

Do you have the same problem?

[Unifying Theory]

Everything in my computer is English, so I don't think so.

[jkfloris]

Could you post a terminal output?

[Unifying Theory]

Bump. Was my post deleted? I posted terminal output several days ago and the message needed approved by a mod.

[dimesio]

According to the moderator log that post was disapproved because you mentioned using a no-DVD patch. Illegal software is not supported and discussion of it is against forum rules.

[Unifying Theory]

All righty, no problem.

I installed wine-5.0-rc6 and created a fresh prefix.
The game installs fine. The 1.05 patch installs fine.
The launcher starts fine. When I click "start game", it crashes and gives an exception:

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~/.wine-eaw/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/LucasArts/Star Wars Empire at War$ wine LaunchEAW.exe 
0009:fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION
0009:fixme:wbemprox:wbem_services_CreateInstanceEnum unsupported flags 0x00000030
0009:fixme:wbemprox:enum_class_object_Next timeout not supported
0009:fixme:ddraw:ddraw7_Initialize Ignoring guid {aeb2cdd4-6e41-43ea-941c-8361cc760781}.
0009:err:winediag:MIDIMAP_drvOpen No software synthesizer midi port found, Midi sound output probably won't work.
0051:fixme:ntdll:NtQueryObject Unsupported information class 3
0051:err:rpc:I_RpcGetBuffer no binding
0051:fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION
wine: Read access denied for device L"\\??\\z:\\", FS volume label and serial are not available.
0051:fixme:file:K32EnumPageFilesA (0xe37b00, 0x1597734) stub
0051:fixme:file:K32EnumPageFilesA (0xe37b00, 0x1565c5c) stub
0051:fixme:cdrom:CDROM_GetMediaType : faking success
0051:fixme:ntdll:server_ioctl_file Unsupported ioctl 2d1400 (device=2d access=0 func=500 method=0)
0051:fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x2005e,00007f00),stub!
0051:fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x1007e,00007f00),stub!
0051:fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x1008c,00007f8a),stub!
0051:fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x1009a,00007f03),stub!
0051:fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x100a8,00007f01),stub!
0051:fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x100b6,00007f88),stub!
0051:fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x100c4,00007f86),stub!
0051:fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x100d2,00007f83),stub!
0051:fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x100e0,00007f82),stub!
0051:fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x100ee,00007f84),stub!
0051:fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x100fc,00007f04),stub!
0051:fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x1010a,00007f02),stub!
0051:fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x2005e,00007f00),stub!
0051:fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x50042,00007f8a),stub!
0051:fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x130058,00007f00),stub!
0051:fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x20054,00007f03),stub!
0051:fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x20056,00007f01),stub!
0051:fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x40062,00007f88),stub!
0051:fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x30064,00007f86),stub!
0051:fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x10068,00007f83),stub!
0051:fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x1006c,00007f85),stub!
0051:fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x10070,00007f82),stub!
0051:fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x10074,00007f84),stub!
0051:fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x10078,00007f04),stub!
0051:fixme:cursor:SetSystemCursor (0x1007c,00007f02),stub!
0051:fixme:ntdll:NtQueryObject Unsupported information class 3
0051:err:rpc:I_RpcGetBuffer no binding
0051:fixme:imm:ImmReleaseContext (0001011E, 01E7AA18): stub
0051:fixme:font:get_outline_text_metrics failed to read full_nameW for font L"Ani"!
0051:fixme:d3d:wined3d_check_device_format_conversion wined3d 0x169e860, adapter_idx 0, device_type WINED3D_DEVICE_TYPE_HAL, src_format WINED3DFMT_B8G8R8A8_UNORM, dst_format WINED3DFMT_B8G8R8X8_UNORM stub!
0051:fixme:d3d:wined3d_check_device_format_conversion wined3d 0x169e860, adapter_idx 0, device_type WINED3D_DEVICE_TYPE_HAL, src_format WINED3DFMT_B8G8R8A8_UNORM, dst_format WINED3DFMT_B5G6R5_UNORM stub!
0051:fixme:d3d:wined3d_check_device_format_conversion wined3d 0x169e860, adapter_idx 0, device_type WINED3D_DEVICE_TYPE_SW, src_format WINED3DFMT_B8G8R8A8_UNORM, dst_format WINED3DFMT_B8G8R8X8_UNORM stub!
0051:fixme:d3d:wined3d_check_device_format_conversion wined3d 0x169e860, adapter_idx 0, device_type WINED3D_DEVICE_TYPE_SW, src_format WINED3DFMT_B8G8R8A8_UNORM, dst_format WINED3DFMT_B5G6R5_UNORM stub!
0051:fixme:d3d:wined3d_check_device_format_conversion wined3d 0x169e860, adapter_idx 0, device_type WINED3D_DEVICE_TYPE_REF, src_format WINED3DFMT_B8G8R8A8_UNORM, dst_format WINED3DFMT_B8G8R8X8_UNORM stub!
0051:fixme:d3d:wined3d_check_device_format_conversion wined3d 0x169e860, adapter_idx 0, device_type WINED3D_DEVICE_TYPE_REF, src_format WINED3DFMT_B8G8R8A8_UNORM, dst_format WINED3DFMT_B5G6R5_UNORM stub!
0051:fixme:d3dcompiler:compile_shader Compilation target "fx_2_0" not yet supported