Age of Empires 3 Problems

[charkoal]

Hi I have followed the guides on installing AoE3 and i managed to install the game and then the guide said i get a nocd crack so i did that and it doesnt seem to load

Can anyone help please ?

[philcamlin]

the nocd crack probably screws up aoe3

i doubt it has anything to do with wine

[charkoal]

when I got it to finally install i could load it up but there was an error message and then it crashed, now with the crack it doesnt even load up

[charkoal]

I have the game installed onto virtual machine and it works fine it just gets real laggy when cannons are fired and sea battles

so if noone knows how to help me install it using wine can anyone help me to increase the RAM of the virtual machine instead?

my computer has 2gig of RAM but the virtual has only 512mb

[philcamlin]

512 should be enough if your running xp

are you useing vmware or virtualbox

[charkoal]

Yea vmware i thought 512mb was enough too but it lags like crazy when i get attacked by ships or by attillery

[philcamlin]

do you have enough video memory allocated?

how much ?

[charkoal]

I have have 1785mb host RAM if thats what u mean ?

[philcamlin]

no i mean video ram

its like ram but for your video card :)

if you dont have enough video play will be laggy :)

i have a 64 MB ati radeon x300

[charkoal]

where can I check to find out ?

[philcamlin]

put this into terminal and ill tell you how much you have

lspci | grep VGA

[charkoal]

Says nVidia Corporation GeForce 7150m (rev a2)

[NightMKoder]

This is a wine forum, can we forego virtualization solutions?

Video card info is still good though. There is a sticky with what you should put in the report.

[philcamlin]

i suggest putting atleast 64 megs video memory in your vm
:popcorn:

[charkoal]

how do i put 64 megs into my video memory in my vm ?

[philcamlin]

if your on virtualbox when your machine is off click video and change it from there :popcorn:

[charkoal]

Im using VMware Workstation I cant find video to change it :(

[charkoal]

does anyone else have this problem ?

[charkoal]

Has anyone got a solution to this?

[NightMKoder]

Depends how you want to get it to work - if you want it to work in virtualbox, this is the wrong forum. Wine is not virtualization.

If you do want to try to run it without virtualization (a la wine), there is a sticky on top of this forum with what info we want when you post.

[charkoal]

yea i tried to run it in wine, i got it installed and then it doesnt run