I'm trying to install the Beyond the Sword expansion pack for Civilization IV. Vanilla and Warlords installed just fine, but BtS is nothing but problems. If I can get the installer to run (it sometimes errors out, claiming a previous setup didn't finish properly, seemingly at random; clearing out the InstallShield files sometimes works, sometimes doesn't), it will eventually prompt for disk 2. I'm able to use wine eject here as I did for vanilla, but at the end, it will ask for disk 1 again. Here, wine eject fails - the command does nothing at all (no output, no errors, disk keeps spinning as if nothing happened), and I'm forced to cancel setup.
Before upgrading Linux Mint, I was able to get it to install by copying all files to a folder on the desktop and running setup from there. However, using that method, none of the .desktop files are created for menu entries, and creating one manually results in it having no icon - and since the icon is in the .exe file for the game, I cannot set one manually. I was willing to accept this workaround when just testing things out on an installation that would soon be blown away, but for a production system, I find it unacceptable. If someone could tell me how to get this to do a FULL install, including the .desktop menu entries, that would be a lifesaver!
One weird thing I noticed: when installing vanilla, the disk prompt used the Linux volume label and mount point in the dialog box, but for BtS, it only uses the drive letter (D:\).
I'm running Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon with Wine 5.0 stable (installed with their wine-installer package... I'd rather not have to switch to a different install).
Instaling Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
Re: Instaling Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
So eventually I found where the icons are stored and with that decided to just do the "copy files to folder" workaround. That icon wasn't the best, but it turned out that the installer for Fall From Heaven 2 clued Wine in to the icon problem, because the real one appeared in ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps like it's supposed to after that. All this said, I do still wonder why "wine eject" failed. This isn't even the only program it fails on - I also tested out SimCity 4 before upgrading Linux Mint, and it fails there too! I couldn't even get SC4 to install because I couldn't figure out a workaround.
There are a couple remaining glitches with civ4, though, so if anyone is familiar enough to figure out how to fix them, it would be appreciated. Sometimes I get a crash when the map generator/scenario loader is on "finishing". It's seemingly random, but often enough to be extremely annoying. The map, units, etc. all go black if I discover Calendar (which centers the world map), requiring a save and a reload. Finally, once in a while, the game will completely freeze when clicking end turn, requiring a force quit.
I tried downloading a native msxml3 and dropping it in the system32 folder and setting an override, but that just causes an xml parse error that prevents the game from loading (I also tried adding in msxml4 and msxml3r too, same result).
There are a couple remaining glitches with civ4, though, so if anyone is familiar enough to figure out how to fix them, it would be appreciated. Sometimes I get a crash when the map generator/scenario loader is on "finishing". It's seemingly random, but often enough to be extremely annoying. The map, units, etc. all go black if I discover Calendar (which centers the world map), requiring a save and a reload. Finally, once in a while, the game will completely freeze when clicking end turn, requiring a force quit.
I tried downloading a native msxml3 and dropping it in the system32 folder and setting an override, but that just causes an xml parse error that prevents the game from loading (I also tried adding in msxml4 and msxml3r too, same result).
Re: Instaling Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
Specifically, this is what happens when I get a crash when setting up the map. Does anyone know how to fix it?
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Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000004 in 32-bit code (0x00429ef6).
Register dump:
CS:0023 SS:002b DS:002b ES:002b FS:006b GS:0063
EIP:00429ef6 ESP:0032f944 EBP:365fdb50 EFLAGS:00010202( R- -- I - - - )
EAX:00000000 EBX:351dca50 ECX:35234d00 EDX:35234d00
ESI:0032fa1c EDI:00c950b0
Stack dump:
0x0032f944: 365fdb50 3541aed0 0032fa1c 0edfdb88
0x0032f954: 00000000 0032f968 7bc5737d 015a0064
0x0032f964: ffffffff 0032f998 7bc57f60 015a0064
0x0032f974: 34560000 35234d00 000000b8 00be2790
0x0032f984: 003f8000 00000010 0000a277 0032f9b0
0x0032f994: 0032fa00 0032f9e8 7bc73b31 37aa6fd8
Backtrace:
=>0 0x00429ef6 EntryPoint+0xffffffff() in civ4beyondsword (0x365fdb50)
1 0x00000000 (0x00ae4c14)
2 0x004298d0 EntryPoint+0xffffffff() in civ4beyondsword (0x004299f0)
3 0x00000018 (0xe8f18b56)
0x00429ef6 EntryPoint+0xffffffff in civ4beyondsword: movl 0x4(%eax),%ecx
Modules:
Module Address Debug info Name (58 modules)
PE 330000- 343000 Deferred zlib1
PE 350000- 35e000 Deferred hapdbg
PE 400000- 100a000 Export civ4beyondsword
PE 1010000- 137f000 Deferred d3dx9_33
PE 1ec0000- 238d000 Deferred cvgamecoredll
PE ff40000- ff4a000 Deferred mssdolby.flt
PE 10000000-1002b000 Deferred boost_python-vc71-mt-1_32
PE 18000000-18038000 Deferred binkw32
PE 1cb00000-1cb2e000 Deferred mssmp3.asi
PE 1cc40000-1cc7a000 Deferred mssvoice.asi
PE 1cea0000-1ceac000 Deferred mssds3d.flt
PE 1cfc0000-1cfde000 Deferred mssdsp.flt
PE 1d0f0000-1d110000 Deferred msseax.flt
PE 1d220000-1d22d000 Deferred msssrs.flt
PE 1e000000-1e1ca000 Deferred python24
PE 20190000-203f7000 Deferred d3dx9_31
PE 21100000-2118c000 Deferred mss32
PE 7a840000-7a844000 Deferred opengl32
PE 7b020000-7b023000 Deferred kernelbase
PE 7b420000-7b5db000 Deferred kernel32
PE 7bc30000-7bc34000 Deferred ntdll
PE 7e030000-7e034000 Deferred imm32
PE 7e2a0000-7e2a4000 Deferred ucrtbase
PE 7e390000-7e394000 Deferred dsound
PE 7e410000-7e418000 Deferred oleaut32
PE 7e520000-7e524000 Deferred ws2_32
PE 7e560000-7e569000 Deferred msacm32
PE 7e590000-7e60d000 Deferred winmm
PE 7e6a0000-7e71b000 Deferred msvcp71
PE 7e7d0000-7e826000 Deferred msvcr71
PE 7e8a0000-7e8a4000 Deferred rpcrt4
PE 7e950000-7e978000 Deferred ole32
PE 7ea90000-7ea93000 Deferred shcore
PE 7ead0000-7ead8000 Deferred shlwapi
PE 7eb50000-7f426000 Deferred shell32
PE 7f560000-7f564000 Deferred msvcrt
PE 7f620000-7f624000 Deferred advapi32
PE 7f6b0000-7f6b7000 Deferred gdi32
PE 7f820000-7f908000 Deferred user32
PE 7ffd0000-7ffd4000 Deferred version
PE e0950000-e0954000 Deferred wined3d
PE e37d0000-e37d4000 Deferred d3d9
PE e4720000-e4764000 Deferred crypt32
PE f4960000-f4964000 Deferred bcrypt
PE f4990000-f4994000 Deferred rsaenh
PE f4f00000-f4f03000 Deferred winepulse
PE f4f30000-f4f34000 Deferred mmdevapi
PE f5000000-f5004000 Deferred uxtheme
PE f5040000-f5043000 Deferred usp10
PE f50b0000-f512e000 Deferred comctl32
PE f5310000-f5313000 Deferred wtsapi32
PE f5350000-f535b000 Deferred mpr
PE f5390000-f53af000 Deferred wininet
PE f5430000-f5442000 Deferred urlmon
PE f75b0000-f75d3000 Deferred msxml3
PE f7690000-f7696000 Deferred gameux
PE f7870000-f787f000 Deferred setupapi
PE f7ae0000-f7ae4000 Deferred winex11
Threads:
process tid prio (all id:s are in hex)
0000000e services.exe
00000029 0
00000022 0
0000001f 0
0000001a 0
00000013 0
00000010 0
0000000f 0
00000011 plugplay.exe
00000017 0
00000016 0
00000012 0
00000018 winedevice.exe
0000001c 0
0000001b 0
00000019 0
0000001d winedevice.exe
00000026 0
00000023 0
00000021 0
00000020 0
0000001e 0
00000024 explorer.exe
0000002f 0
0000002e 0
0000002d 0
00000025 0
00000027 winedevice.exe
0000002c 0
0000002b 0
0000002a 0
00000028 0
00000050 (D) C:\Program Files (x86)\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Beyond the Sword\Civ4BeyondSword.exe
00000074 0
00000071 0
0000006e 0
0000006d 0
0000006c 0
0000006b 15
0000006a 15
00000068 15
00000067 0
00000066 0
00000051 0 <==
System information:
Wine build: wine-5.0 (Ubuntu 5.0-3ubuntu1)
Platform: i386 (WOW64)
Version: Windows 7
Host system: Linux
Host version: 5.4.0-40-generic
