Civ4- Linux : Warlords?

[monkeyman]

Hey all,

I have civ4 working quite well (haven't tested everything, but single player works perfectly) on KUbuntu Fiesty fawn with Cedega 6.0 and I have had thoughts of trying out Warlords. Has anyone tried Warlords on Wine or Cedega?

--mm

[petermarkab]

yeah works like a dream. I think the order in which i installed was as follows:

1. install civ 4. use the civ 4 settings from the games database.
2. install warlords and let it auto update civ 4 to v1.61
- warlords then installs. use civ 4 settings again.
(i don't use xfire or any other peripheral program from the disk.)
3. download the warlords patch and install using civ 4 settings.

i use ubuntu 6.10.
i have the game in full screen and use alt-tab or ctrl-alt-left arrow to get to the desktop.

Hmm there's probably more things i've done to smooth the running but i can't remember right now.

oh yeah, you don't need directx - cedega takes care of all that for you.

only issue i have is occasional crashes which i resolve by stopping the application with cedega then restarting it.
there are a few graphical issues but this could be nvidia related - not sure.

in any case, installing the patch (2.08 i think) resolves a lot of stuff to make it play, as i said, like a dream!

[Solver]

What version of Cedega is that with?

[monkeyman]

More details

So, in case anyone is interested, with more testing, still everything works in vanilla 1.62 except:
1) Ctrl and Alt key combinations. This is a known issue and cedega is working on this.
2) I have not tried this, but apparently some have had difficulty with MODs. There is apparently a workaround, and I can find it if anyone is interested.

petermarkab, thanks for the info. Warlords sounds like it behaves like another patch, so I'll give it a whirl if my wife lets me buy it

--mm

[petermarkab]

Originally posted by Solver
What version of Cedega is that with?

Version 6.0

yeah the Ctrl keys don't work but the alt ones do.
I've tried a few mods - barbarians works as does chinese unification, but there are reports of others (3rd party) breaking the emulation.

[Zoid]

Hmm, I managed to get Vanilla Civ 4 working (1.61). But when I try to install Warlords it says it's something wrong with my Civ 4 install and I should re-install it... But it plays alright. Wtf??

Oh, and I use the latest Cedega (6.1) and Ubuntu Feisty.

[petermarkab]

hi Zoid,

did you install the civ 4 patch prior to installing warlords? My experience is that this fails. I got a successful install through updating using the Warlords install. See the order in my first post.

how is the game with cedega 6.1? are the ctrl keys and graphical issues resolved?

[Zoid]

1.61 installed alright, maybe this is the problem? And I haven't tried it that much. I'll load my latest pbem save (large late medieval era highlands map), this should tell me if there's any graphics problems...

[petermarkab]

yeah, if i were you i'd uninstall completely, clean install civ 4 then go straight to install warlords. Then install patch 2.08.

at each stage test that the game works.

the graphics problems i've experienced can happen on small maps. I don't think its a large map problem. what happens is that the bottom right corner (where the unit data is) gets corrupted with flashing images. When i conduct diplomacy, the leaderhead appears frozen but a second animated leaderhead appears in the same bottom right hand corner. And sometimes when i load a save game, the bottom right hand corner shows me a glimpse of the entire map, which is a bonus i suppose!

[Zoid]

Hehe, weird cheat bug

But IIRC last time I tried to install Warlords without the 1.61 patch it said the same. But I'll try again.

[petermarkab]

There could be an inconsistency with me using Edgy and you using Feisty, and similar with cedega 6.0 and 6.1.

[Zoid]

Could be. We'll see.

[Zoid]

Hmm, something in Cedega 6.1 or Feisty obviously broke Warlords. I can't get the game to install...

Oh well, at least Vanilla works