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Niram96

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Registered: 2021-09-08

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[Solved] Problems of resolution with Age of Empires Gold Edition 1 & 2

Hi,

I want to play some good old games with a friend like Age of Empires Gold Edition 1 & 2 but they doesn't work properly.
I use Wine 8.0 and PlayOnLinux and have all updates done on my laptop on ArchLinux.

The installations runs with no problems but when I launch the games with latest versions of Wine, I have a black screen.
I tried with a lot of previous versions of Wine (7.0, 6.11, 6.0, 5.5; 4.0-rc7, 3.1, 2.22...) and can't have a game that runs correctly.

If the game launched (with Wine 3.1 for exemple), I can't put the 1024*768 resolution.

With Age of Empires nothing happens, it stays at 800*600 and with Age of Empires 2 the game crashes.

I think I installed all necessaries packages.

The thing I don't understand is that with my Ubuntu laptop the 2 games works perfectly with the latest wine's versions.

If someone can help me, I'll appreciate !

Last edited by Niram96 (2023-01-29 17:08:59)

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V1del

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Re: [Solved] Problems of resolution with Age of Empires Gold Edition 1 & 2

Playonlinux often has broken libs/path handling, did you try normal wine from the repos? Terminal output of running an affected game?

Last edited by V1del (2023-01-29 15:45:01)

seth

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Re: [Solved] Problems of resolution with Age of Empires Gold Edition 1 & 2

my Ubuntu laptop

Different HW, is it?

Please post the output of

xrandr -q

and your xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General

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Niram96

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Registered: 2021-09-08

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Re: [Solved] Problems of resolution with Age of Empires Gold Edition 1 & 2

Playonlinux often has broken libs/path handling, did you try normal wine from the repos? Terminal output of running an affected game?

No, I usually play my games via PlayOnLinux. The others games have no problem.
For example, Age of Empires III works perfectly.

Different HW, is it?

Please post the output of

xrandr -q

and your xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General

Yes, my laptop is a little better. but both are old laptops.

[user@archlinux-user ~]$ xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1600 x 900, maximum 16384 x 16384
eDP connected 1600x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 382mm x 214mm
   1600x900      60.01*+  40.01  
   1440x900      60.01  
   1280x800      60.01  
   1280x720      60.01  
   1024x768      60.01  
   800x600       60.01  
   640x480       60.01  
HDMI-A-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DisplayPort-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
[user@archlinux-user ~]$ 

The thing is when I used ubuntu on this laptop the games run very well.
Seems like the problem comes from Arch or missed packages / wrong config.

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seth

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Re: [Solved] Problems of resolution with Age of Empires Gold Edition 1 & 2

Terminal output of running an affected game?

and your xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General

Typically you'll miss the multilib repo and some lib32 libraries.

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Niram96

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Re: [Solved] Problems of resolution with Age of Empires Gold Edition 1 & 2

However I activated it days ago.

But I reinstalled the games and now both games work well
I don't know where the problem cames from lol.

Edit : I use Wine 3.1

Thank you for your help

Last edited by Niram96 (2023-01-29 17:38:49)

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