[SOLVED] Trouble With Age of Empires 2 / Conquerors in Wine

Question

As the title indicates I'm trying to install and run Age of Empires 2 and the expansion Conquerors, with Wine. Looks like it should work: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p … n&iId=4184
So first I installed wine and the video driver like this...
pacman -Sy wine wine_gecko lib32-intel-dri
Then, for each iso I mounted it to a new folder and ran the install file on the image with wine. Here's how I mounted each iso...
mount -o loop aoe.iso /mnt/mydisk
Installation of both AOE2 and the Conquerors seemed to work fine. But then when I attempted to play the game from the installation menu, popping up a "Program Error" that "the program age2_x1.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to close." If I run AOCSETUP.EXE from the mounted iso right now, the main menu (with options "Play", "Add/Remove", "Web Connection", and "Register online") shows up but clicking "play" results in the same error. I've tried removing the dpwsockx.dll file that WineHQ mentions but it makes no difference.
I also tried loading wine with the option for Intel graphics, but had the same error as well as the following error in the console...
[karam@nikolai mydisk]$ env LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=/usr/lib32/xorg/modules/dri wine AOCSETUP.EXE
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"winemp3.acm": libmpg123.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"winemp3.acm": libmpg123.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[karam@nikolai mydisk]$ fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000 channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000 channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000 channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000 channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000 channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
fixme:alsa:AudioClient_GetMixFormat Don't know what to do with 10000 channels, pretending there's only 2 channels
wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0xcf8672fe at address 0x40d774 (thread 003b), starting debugger...
[karam@nikolai mydisk]$
Does anyone have any ideas?...
Last edited by tony5429 (2011-11-09 04:43:40)

Answer 1

Are you on x86_64? Might wanna run WINEARCH=win32 winecfg (wiki entry for winearch). WINE works with the video drivers that you use for xorg not sure if you really need to specify that intel-dri driver.
Another thing that works quite well for me is make sure the current working directory is the game directory, then use wine to run the .exe. I recently installed Anachronox and if I try to launch it from outside the game directory i get missing dll errors also, even though the dlls are present in the game directory.
Also did you follow the following How-To steps on the WINE game page?
    The game must be set to Windows 2000 compatibility. (seems to play equally well with XP mode too, though.)
    This game requires a NoCD patch to run. (you can play using aocsetup.exe from the cd, if you can’t afford to NoCD)
    If the game wont start (and wine hasn’t hang up(pkill wine && pkill exe)), either remove dpwsockx.dll from your system32 folder or follow the steps for multi-player below. ¹
Last edited by KingX (2011-11-01 08:25:10)