Age of Empire 2 GOLD with Expansion The Conqueror not work

zaion84 · Post by **zaion84** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:02 pm

Hello everyone,
i'm new in world of ubuntu and generally little ferrate on linux (i have studied it at school 7 years ago).
Grin said that I wanted your help to run this game original and which I still play very often on Direct Connect.

I have the 1.1.7 version of Wine which I run perfectly SPORE without any problem, and even installations AGEII and AGEIITheConqueror be successful. I configured Wine with the dll following WineHQ guide and put the nocd (reluctantly).

My problem is on starting game, in the menu and in the game.. Cry Cry Cry

1) if i not start the game with parameter -nostartup it run, show the video intro but then the menu is unreadable.
2) with the parameter it start without Intro and the menu, apart fot the written black, works correctly.
3) if I start a game I get a black screen even however the music works and feel the selection of buildings and characters.

Questions:
1) It may be the nocd to have problems? Perhaps replacing it?
2) You can solve the problems with black text?
3) You can start it in full screen? (A standard for me 1024x768 but I see the bars above and below ubuntu that I cover the buttons)

zaion84 · Post by **zaion84** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:03 pm

sorry for my bad english

rainbows_box · Post by **rainbows_box** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 9:33 am

Hello,
I'm also a newbie in Wine use.

You have to install the version 1.0.0 of Wine because following versions doesn't make AOE working.

But I suggest you to use PlayOnLinux which can use multiple installation version of Wine at the same time. It allow you to use the best suitable Wine version for each Windows application you have installed.

So, when you want to install a new Windows application, check before in AppDB the Wine version that gives the best results with your application and use this version (not the last version).

baDibere · Post by **baDibere** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:09 am

Hello everyone,

I've similar problem with AOC.

Multiplayer section doesn't work using Wine 1.1.8. All text are black, sound comes from backward, single player works but multiplayer doesn't work.

At multiplayer section connection types aren't there, so I cannot create game or cannot see any created game on line

What's the problem?

Thunderbird · Post by **Thunderbird** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:24 am

Black text is a known problem and further our directplay implementation is limited causing the network issues. Appdb.winehq.org might contain info for AOE2 to function properly in network using native dplay but I have no idea if that does the job for AOE2 or not.

baDibere · Post by **baDibere** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:34 am

I've found this topic that is related to my/our problem. There is a solution that I haven't tried yet.

http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t ... ge+empires

Alexander Nicolaysen S... · Wed Nov 26, 2008 7:53 am

On Wednesday 26 November 2008 11:24:28 Thunderbird wrote:

Black text is a known problem and further our directplay implementation is
limited causing the network issues. Appdb.winehq.org might contain info for
AOE2 to function properly in network using native dplay but I have no idea
if that does the job for AOE2 or not.

It used to work, at least. I'd imagine it still does

Alexander N. Sørnes

vnu007dl · Post by **vnu007dl** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 8:36 am

I have a different problem wit AoE. I can run the game, but, I can not play !! because game do not see cd. I have no idea how to overcome it?