Age of Mythology and Wine (MSXML 4)

[Thetargos]

I thought to try my luck with Wine and Age of Mythology (as a close friend of mine has been insisting we have to play it on-line one of these days). I don't own a copy of the game, but a cousin of mine said I could use his copy which he is not using for the time being to perform my tests.

Anyway, so I installed it, and after looking at some of the posts over at the AppDB on whinehq, I was kind of expecting the process to fail. Anyway, so the game installed apparently "fine" and all, I was actually very surprised to see the entry movie actually play (I had never had such luck in the past with this game), however upon initializtion, there is an error about MSXML not being correctly installed. Anyone have tried this game with under wine?

I'm familiar with all the "network" magic to make it work behind a NAT network for direct IP connections on Windows, does Multiplayer work in Linux? I'm not too excited about this game, but I may even get it if that means me and my best buddy can play on-line.

[Thetargos]

It so happens that the installer wasn't able to actually install the necessary .dlls for msxml, I had to copy them from another Windows machine... Even the MSI installer failed to install the .msi, odd (as I believe Wine had fixed that problem)... Anyway, now it is running amazingly well, even under beryl:

[Seve]

Hello Thetargos:
I am not familiar with the game, however, the attached pictures look absolutely great. :cool:
And this is with beryl running ..... even better ?

Seve

[Thetargos]

Yes, it is with Beryl running... I thought my system was a bit on the low side (graphics wise) as I have a GeForce 5900, not as beefy as 6600 or 7600, not to mention any of the 6800 or 7900 series, but the game plays awesome and doesn't lag. I was even able to play it with copy protection, I thought I'd need a noCD crack, but it wasn't needed.

[Zero-Override]

i've had the same problems actually o_o

could you please tell me which files you copied or what folder or something like that? :)
thanks a lot in advance!!

[Thetargos]

Well, I pretty much got every xml dll file in the system32 directory, so I copied over my network shared folder in a Windows PC all the relevant files from the CMD with:


copy ms*xml*dll F:\


In my case, F is actually a network share on my FC5 server mounted as a network drive in my dad's Windows XP PC, then basically moved the files from the same share I have mounted via NFS on my FC6 workstation to the Windows/System32 folder under ~/.wine/drive_c, and that was pretty much it. For some reason I believe that the ncessary registry entries were made by the AOM installer, still I believe without those you'll be able to use the program.

[phkahler]

Yes, it is with Beryl running... I thought my system was a bit on the low side (graphics wise) as I have a GeForce 5900, not as beefy as 6600 or 7600, not to mention any of the 6800 or 7900 series, but the game plays awesome and doesn't lag. I was even able to play it with copy protection, I thought I'd need a noCD crack, but it wasn't needed.

My wife and I played all the AGE games (empires,kings,mythology) over the years. We have a more recent laptop, but the other machine is an Athlon 700MHz with a TNT2 32meg video card and Windows 98. All three games ran fine on it. This is one area where Microsoft really made an effort to get high performance from older hardware. I thought I read part of the reason was that people who played Age of Empires were most likely to play the sequels and they didn't want them to have to upgrade hardware to do it. Or that could be a myth. Anyway the system requirements aren't very high for those games.

Now I'll have to dig out the CD and try this on the Fedora box. I had no idea this game could be run that way. Thanks for telling the story. BTW, I think Age of Kings was my favorite of the three.

BTW, we could play AOM with only one machine having the CD. That implies it's OK to install it on 2 machines, but that doesn't sound like MS.

[Zero-Override]

thanks a lot for that explanation :) i'll try this as soon as possible ;)

[pstrang]

Interesting.....and good news. I installed mine too. After some internet searching and tweaking, got it to run, but I have no keyboard input while in the game....only mouse.

What Fedora r u running? What version of wine?

Thanks!
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FC6 updated to latest patches.

[Thetargos]

Interesting.....and good news. I installed mine too. After some internet searching and tweaking, got it to run, but I have no keyboard input while in the game....only mouse.

What Fedora r u running? What version of wine?

Thanks!
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FC6 updated to latest patches.
Indeed, if you run in fullscreen, you won't have keyboard input (known issue, see the many posts in the AppDB about that). However if you run in a WineDesktop window, you'll get keyboard input just fine (though mouse scrolling is a pain in the rear). I'm using Fedora Core 6 (x86_64), and those screenshots were taken with wine-0.9.32 (which is the latest in Extras, even though 0.9.33 is already out in winehq, guess it'll only be available for FD7)

[pstrang]

Thanks! Yea, I've check all over for a later build of wine for FC6. I'll have to compile from source or play in window mode.

[Shauly]

Hello, I installed Age of Empires II using crossover office, and I got it to start, but it exits almost right away. Does anyone know what is wrong and how I can fix it?

Thanks.

[pstrang]

Well, you need to try and determine the error message. It may be some missing DLLs.

[Shauly]

There is no error message. It just exits a second after I hit the play button. How can I tell if a dll is missing?

Thanks.

[Thetargos]

Hello, I installed Age of Empires II using crossover office, and I got it to start, but it exits almost right away. Does anyone know what is wrong and how I can fix it?

Thanks.
Hello, first of all, it is generally a good idea to start a new thread for a different game (even if it is one of the Age of * games) to give your topic maximum exposure...

Now, how are you trying to run the game? Are you running it from the launcher/desktop icon and expect an error message dialog box to appear? (that may very well never happen) or are you trying to run it from a command prompt? Any output in the console? (you should at least have something in the console, even messages that all seems OK.).

[pstrang]

Indeed, if you run in fullscreen, you won't have keyboard input (known issue, see the many posts in the AppDB about that). However if you run in a WineDesktop window, you'll get keyboard input just fine (though mouse scrolling is a pain in the rear). I'm using Fedora Core 6 (x86_64), and those screenshots were taken with wine-0.9.32 (which is the latest in Extras, even though 0.9.33 is already out in winehq, guess it'll only be available for FD7)

I updated to the latest wine for FC6, Wine 0.9.36. I thought they had patched wine to work in fullscreen for AoM. Still no luck. I only have keyboard input while in a virtual window. :(

[Thetargos]

I'm not even sure that this is a proper bug filed to the Wine tracker... It would certainly make a nice report, hehe... Will check with their tracker later.

[pstrang]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1798