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AAVVIronAlex

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From: Yerevan

Registered: 2023-09-05

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Failing to run Age Of Empires 2: The Conquerors on Wine

I have seen people having this issue since I have been using Linux. People using Manjaro (Arch based) were surprised that I easily installed the game using Ubuntu. It was a fairly easy process, but now that I have tried to launch my game from the wineprefix I created and it just refuses to launch, giving me errors like the ones which were specified in that post I linked.

I have DX files installed, the thing that I do think is the issue here is that Arch's wine does not come with a package which is required to run some games, because I have noticed that not all the games which ran on Ubuntu work on Arch. It has not bothered me until this very title.

When the game does launch it brings this up: https://imgur.com/H6223js

I am using wine 9.14, but other wine versions I have either just do not launch or do give me better results.

I am using System Winetricks in Lutris.

I tried running the game using the wine command, so out of the Lutris interface, nothing changed.

My main goal with this game is to make it run through Voobly which is essentially a server browser for Age Of Empires 2 servers. The server browser works just fine as it did with the OP in the Reddit post linked above.

If there are things that are missing from wine's base installation on Arch and may be essential for running Age Of Empires 2, please tell me. I would try those "packages".

Thanks for reading, please ask me anything if you want more information about my configuration.

A post I followed to make it playable on Ubuntu: https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe2/comments/ … with_wine/

Last edited by AAVVIronAlex (2024-08-12 23:25:50)