empire total war stuck at startup (copyright) page

[krenault35]

Hi,

This is my second day since owning empire total war. Really looking forward to playing it, but I have not. I'm using the latest wine program. I follow the winehq 's description for installing empire total war (installing d3dx9, changing registry, placing MSVCP80.dll at system32 and winecfg). Now, I'm stuck at the startup page (where all the copyright details are). Loading stops and if i drag anything pass this page, it leaves a shadow.

I would really appreciate if anyone helps me out. I will paste the terminal output in another post.

Thanks ahead of time.

[krenault35]

The ending output from terminal before the game crash


kelvin@kelvin-laptop:~$ wine "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\empire total war\Empire.exe"

...


Opening database: trigger_effects_table (34ms delta, 3421ms total, 0MB allocated total, 0 bytes delta allocated, total UniStrings:409943)
Opening database: trigger_event_to_excluded_agent_types_table (2ms delta, 3423ms total, 0MB allocated total, 0 bytes delta allocated, total UniStrings:410765)
Opening database: trigger_events_table (1ms delta, 3424ms total, 0MB allocated total, 0 bytes delta allocated, total UniStrings:410780)
Opening database: campaign_walk_anim_sets_table (1ms delta, 3425ms total, 0MB allocated total, 0 bytes delta allocated, total UniStrings:411205)
Opening database: campaign_character_anim_walk_anim_junctions_table (768ms delta, 4193ms total, 0MB allocated total, 0 bytes delta allocated, total UniStrings:411286)
Opening database: campaign_character_anims_junctions_table (1ms delta, 4194ms total, 0MB allocated total, 0 bytes delta allocated, total UniStrings:411402)
Opening database: campaign_character_anim_sets_table (5ms delta, 4199ms total, 0MB allocated total, 0 bytes delta allocated, total UniStrings:413132)
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x03e1f000 at address 0x12a716a (thread 0040), starting debugger...
err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code c0000005 flags 0 addr 0x7a88e1e2
Done Loading database


Please help me! Thanks

[krenault35]

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[dimesio]

I'm using the latest wine program. I follow the winehq 's description for installing empire total war (installing d3dx9, changing registry, placing MSVCP80.dll at system32 and winecfg).

Where did you see those instructions? There's no howto in the AppDB for any of the versions of this game.

MSVCP80.dll does not belong in system32. If you really need it, install it with winetricks vcrun2005, which will put it in the right place. But I see nothing in the AppDB to suggest you do need it for this game.

Exactly what registry changes did you make?

Note there's also a known bug affecting this game. There's a patch in the bug report. http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18490

[krenault35]

Somehow the instructions I saw in the AppDB are no longer there. The link to that is

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=15915

It told me to add these values to HKEY_CURRENT_USER//Software//Wine//Direct3D

"DirectDrawRenderer"="gdi"
"OffscreenRenderingMode"="fbo"
"PixelShaderMode"="enabled"
"SoftwareEmulation"="enabled"
"UseGLSL"="enabled"
"VertexShaderMode"="hardware"
"VideoDescription"="NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT"
"VideoDriver"="nv4_disp.dll"
"VideoMemorySize"="1024"

which I did.

To see if it is these changes that are preventing me from running the games, I deleted them and ran the game. Now i have a C++ R6034 error message.

Also, I went to the page with the bug report. I don't really know how to install the patch of the bug (I see it is an attachment to the bug but I don't know how to install it)

Please help. Thanks

[krenault35]

Another thing, with MSVCP80.dll in the system32 or in the same folder as empire.exe, this terminal output happens


fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.VC80.CRT" (8.0.50727.762)
err:module:import_dll Library MSVCP80.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Steam\\steamapps\\common\\empire total war\\tbb.dll") not found
err:module:import_dll Library tbb.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Steam\\steamapps\\common\\empire total war\\Empire.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\Program Files\\Steam\\steamapps\\common\\empire total war\\Empire.exe" failed, status c0000135

[James McKenzie]

krenault35 wrote:

Another thing, with MSVCP80.dll in the system32 or in the same folder as empire.exe, this terminal output happens


fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.VC80.CRT" (8.0.50727.762)
err:module:import_dll Library MSVCP80.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Steam\\steamapps\\common\\empire total war\\tbb.dll") not found
err:module:import_dll Library tbb.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Steam\\steamapps\\common\\empire total war\\Empire.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\Program Files\\Steam\\steamapps\\common\\empire total war\\Empire.exe" failed, status c0000135

Remove the dll file you installed and follow the instructions dimensio
gave you.

If you need help with winetricks:

http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks

is the place to look.

James McKenzie