Age of Empires III Sound problem

sarandaris · Post by **sarandaris** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 10:58 am

I'm trying to run Age of Empires III on Fedora 17 using Wine 1.5.8. The sound is OK when the opening videos run but when the game itself starts there is no sound. I had no problems at all with Fedora 16 and a previous version of Wine, and yes you could say: "Well why don't you ...?" but I would prefer not to go back to Fedora 16.

Anybody else had this issue, and solved it?

mogorva · Post by **mogorva** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 12:10 pm

Please upgrade to Wine 1.5.9 and try again...the missing sound issue should be fixed in 1.5.9. At least that's what I see when running AoE 3 with Wine 1.5.9. Indeed, there was no sound in AoE 3 with 1.5.8.

Also make sure that you have the l3codec installed (winetricks l3codecx).

Fedora 17 x86
Alsa 1.0.25
Pulseaudio is not running here

sarandaris · Post by **sarandaris** » Fri Jul 20, 2012 1:23 pm

I did as you suggested and upgraded Wine and that fixed it.

Thank you very much for that advice!