Age of Empires 2 doesn't start

[gicanzo]

Hi guys,
as in the title, i can't get AoE2 starting on my Ubuntu 12.10. This is what i've done so far:

- installed wine v1.5--
- tried to install aoe2 trhough wine but didn't work
- installed playonlinux (which i think installed Wine back to v1.4), added some files that i read were needed (mscf40 and mscf42, or something like that), installed directplay through terminal, installed directx drivers through playonlinux
- then i was able to install aoe2 (and the conquerors expansion as well)

so setup completed successfully, but now i can't get the game started. If i try to start it through playonlinux, i get the error message (my translation):

"the program empires2.exe encountered an error and has to be closed. We are sorry for the inconvenience and blablabla"

If i try to start it through the terminal with wine, with the command "wine empires2.exe" (is it the right command??), i get this:


err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\empires2.exe"


So it should be a graphics card error, right? What should I do? Thanks in advance for any replies :D

[zombifier25]

Did you install Age of Empire II using PlayOnLinux's provided config? Or did you just manually add a bunch of libraries?
If the latter, then PlayOnLinux has a AOE2 config that automatically does all the hard work of configuring the required settings for you. You may want to try that and see if it works.

[gicanzo]

I just took it from the list in playonlinux's install menu. Anway, it really seems that the problem derives from my graphic card. How can i see card's model and install proper, updated drivers?

[myromance123]

To find out what graphics card you have, you can open a new Terminal and Enter the following:

lspci | grep VGA

From there, we'll try to figure out how to install your graphics drivers.

[gicanzo]

To find out what graphics card you have, you can open a new Terminal and Enter the following:

lspci | grep VGA

From there, we'll try to figure out how to install your graphics drivers.

GeForce G 105M:


01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G98M [GeForce G 105M] (rev a1)

[gicanzo]

Guys, if I enable debugging on PlayonLinux and try to start the game through it, this is what i get:

Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0xffffffff in 32-bit code (0x0040aaad).Register dump:
CS:0073 SS:007b DS:007b ES:007b FS:0033 GS:003b
EIP:0040aaad ESP:0032fd00 EBP:0032fde4 EFLAGS:00010293( R- -- I S -A- -C)
EAX:00000001 EBX:bde78d9d ECX:00000067 EDX:00400000
ESI:7b867c00 EDI:00400000
Stack dump:
0x0032fd00: 00410fed 00000000 00400000 00000067
0x0032fd10: 0041ab90 0012d8d2 7b895848 7bc483b1
0x0032fd20: 0055b000 00000002 0044bdd0 7bca4e6c
0x0032fd30: 7bc3590f 00000800 00000094 00000005
0x0032fd40: 00000000 00000893 00000002 76726553
0x0032fd50: 20656369 6b636150 00003420 00000800
Backtrace:
=>0 0x0040aaad in empires2 (+0xaaad) (0x0032fde4)
1 0x0041ace2 in empires2 (+0x1ace1) (0x0032fe70)
2 0x7b85ac0c call_process_entry+0xb() in kernel32 (0x0032fe88)
3 0x7b85e13b in kernel32 (+0x4e13a) (0x0032fec8)
4 0x7bc714f0 call_thread_func_wrapper+0xb() in ntdll (0x0032fed8)
5 0x7bc7172d call_thread_func+0x7c() in ntdll (0x0032ffa8)
6 0x7bc714ce RtlRaiseException+0x21() in ntdll (0x0032ffc8)
7 0x7bc4c30e in ntdll (+0x3c30d) (0x0032ffe8)
0x0040aaad: pop %ss
Modules:
Module Address Debug info Name (51 modules)
PE 400000- 44b000 Export empires2
PE 10000000-1000c000 Deferred drvmgt
ELF 7b800000-7b8f5000 Dwarf kernel32<elf>
\-PE 7b810000-7b8f5000 \ kernel32
ELF 7bc00000-7bcc1000 Dwarf ntdll<elf>
\-PE 7bc10000-7bcc1000 \ ntdll
ELF 7bf00000-7bf03000 Deferred <wine-loader>
ELF 7e635000-7e6ab000 Deferred rpcrt4<elf>
\-PE 7e640000-7e6ab000 \ rpcrt4
ELF 7e6fd000-7e704000 Deferred libxfixes.so.3
ELF 7e704000-7e70f000 Deferred libxcursor.so.1
ELF 7e797000-7e7bf000 Deferred libexpat.so.1
ELF 7e7bf000-7e7f7000 Deferred libfontconfig.so.1
ELF 7e7f7000-7e807000 Deferred libxi.so.6
ELF 7e807000-7e80b000 Deferred libxcomposite.so.1
ELF 7e80b000-7e82c000 Deferred imm32<elf>
\-PE 7e810000-7e82c000 \ imm32
ELF 7e82c000-7e830000 Deferred libxau.so.6
ELF 7e830000-7e855000 Deferred libxcb.so.1
ELF 7e855000-7e98b000 Deferred libx11.so.6
ELF 7e98b000-7e99d000 Deferred libxext.so.6
ELF 7e99d000-7e9b7000 Deferred libice.so.6
ELF 7e9b9000-7e9c4000 Deferred libxrandr.so.2
ELF 7e9c4000-7e9ce000 Deferred libxrender.so.1
ELF 7e9ce000-7ea60000 Deferred winex11<elf>
\-PE 7e9e0000-7ea60000 \ winex11
ELF 7ea60000-7ea74000 Deferred libz.so.1
ELF 7ea74000-7eb0e000 Deferred libfreetype.so.6
ELF 7eb25000-7eb3d000 Deferred version<elf>
\-PE 7eb30000-7eb3d000 \ version
ELF 7eb3d000-7eb9d000 Deferred advapi32<elf>
\-PE 7eb50000-7eb9d000 \ advapi32
ELF 7eb9d000-7ec58000 Deferred gdi32<elf>
\-PE 7ebb0000-7ec58000 \ gdi32
ELF 7ec58000-7ed96000 Deferred user32<elf>
\-PE 7ec70000-7ed96000 \ user32
ELF 7ef96000-7efa3000 Deferred libnss_files.so.2
ELF 7efa3000-7efbd000 Deferred libnsl.so.1
ELF 7efbd000-7efe9000 Deferred libm.so.6
ELF 7efea000-7eff0000 Deferred libxxf86vm.so.1
ELF 7eff0000-7eff4000 Deferred libxinerama.so.1
ELF 7eff4000-7f000000 Deferred libnss_nis.so.2
ELF b7441000-b744a000 Deferred libnss_compat.so.2
ELF b744b000-b7450000 Deferred libdl.so.2
ELF b7450000-b75fa000 Deferred libc.so.6
ELF b75fa000-b7615000 Deferred libpthread.so.0
ELF b7616000-b761c000 Deferred libuuid.so.1
ELF b761c000-b7625000 Deferred libsm.so.6
ELF b762d000-b776e000 Dwarf libwine.so.1
ELF b7770000-b7792000 Deferred ld-linux.so.2
ELF b7792000-b7793000 Deferred [vdso].so
Threads:
process tid prio (all id:s are in hex)
00000008 (D) C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II\empires2.exe
00000009 0 <==
0000000e services.exe
0000002a 0
00000029 0
0000001f 0
00000019 0
00000018 0
00000017 0
00000015 0
00000010 0
0000000f 0
00000012 winedevice.exe
0000001d 0
0000001a 0
00000014 0
00000013 0
0000001b plugplay.exe
00000021 0
0000001e 0
0000001c 0
00000022 explorer.exe
00000023 0
00000026 winedevice.exe
0000002b 0
00000028 0
00000027 0
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0xffffffff at address 0x40aaad (thread 0009), starting debugger...
err:ntdll:RtlDeleteResource Deleting active MRSW lock (0x11207c), expect failure


i have no clue what that means :)

[gicanzo]

wait, if start it on terminal with "wine empires2.exe", last error line also says that empires wasn't found:


~$ wine empires2.exe
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
err:winediag:xrandr12_init_modes Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\empires2.exe"

[myromance123]

Don't worry about Wine not finding empires2. This is because PlayOnLinux stores it's Wineprefixes in a different place from the standalone Wine version.

May I know if you've installed the Nvidia proprietary driver yet?

One way you can install the Nvidia driver is by the Additional Drivers application. Open Ubuntu's Dash, and search for "Software Sources". Now go to the very right tab that says "Additional Drivers". Do you have any of the Nvidia drivers selected? (whether Experimental or not, either is fine).

For example, on my system I have selected "Using Experimental NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library from nvidia-experimental-310(proprietary)".

P.S: Could you also list out your entire computers hardware specs? I'm trying to figure out if your card is an Nvidia Optimus card, or a normal GeForce card.

[gicanzo]

I installed NVIDIA drivers taking them directly from NVIDIA's website. It was the 310.19 i think. I installed it as explained on their website and, apparently, everything went fine.
However, i still get the same errors when starting the game.

[gicanzo]

anyone can help???

[seruling]

I can install and play age of empire the conqueror in standalone Wine 1.6. Without playonlinux. I can install the 1.0c patch as well. If you can play other window games on wine, I do think it would play AOE as well.