[PLUG] civ 4 Beyond the Sword on wine 1.2 on ubuntu 10.04

[Bruce Kilpatrick]

On 12/01/2010 05:13 PM, Victor Soich wrote:
> I hope someone can help.
>
> I upgraded to Wine 1.3.8 using synaptic package manager.  I realized
> that when I go to Applications menu item, and then wine, then
> configure wine, I get a dialog box that says wine configuration with
> tabs on it.  One of the tabs say libraries.  So I figure that has
> something to do with
>
> Disable gameux on winecfg ->  Libraries.
>
> but I don't see anything about gameux.
>
> I still don't know about
>
> I didn't install DX9 via Winetricks since I already have installed the
> June 2010 release of DX the regular way. Didn't have any problems at
> all.
>
>
> Is there anyone on this list able to help me?  If no one knows about
> these issue, can at least one person say that probably no one on the
> list knows.  I just would like the smallest confirmation that someone
> is at least taking a cursory glance at my issue.  I was hoping someone
> in the Portland Metro area could help, but in case not, I emailed to
> appdb at winehq.org.  I hope I am asking for help in an appropriate and
> respectful way.
>
> Thank you,
> Victor Soich
>
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Victor Soich<vsoich at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to get Civ 4 Beyond the Sword on wine 1.2 on ubuntu 10.04 to work.
>>
>> According to the link
>>
>> http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=16878
>>
>> The link above says.......
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> The following tweaks are unavoidable in order to run the game:
>>
>> * Install MSXML3 and MSXML4 via Winetricks.
>> * Disable gameux on winecfg ->  Libraries.
>>
>> I didn't install DX9 via Winetricks since I already have installed the
>> June 2010 release of DX the regular way. Didn't have any problems at
>> all.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I believe I did the stuff about MSXML3 and MSXML4 via Winetricks correctly.
>>
>> I don't know what
>>
>>
>>            Disable gameux on winecfg ->  Libraries.
>>
>>
>> means.  What am I suppose to do?
>> I don't know what
>>
>>
>>
>> I didn't install DX9 via Winetricks since I already have installed the
>> June 2010 release of DX the regular way. Didn't have any problems at
>> all.
>>
>>
>>
>> means.  I didn't install any sort of June 2010 release of DX the
>> regular.  Am I suppose to do something?
>>
>> At this point, when I click on the icon for Civ 4 Beyond the Sword,
>> the game actually starts, i.e. I get to the point where I can choose
>> single player, multi player, et. al, but everything is really slow.
>> My system had 2 gig or Ram, and a graphics card with 1 gig of Ram on
>> it, I think, and             cpu MHz            : 2992.7929
>>
>> I think my hardware is okay to run the game, but maybe not.  I don't know.
>>
>> So....if I do what people on this list recommend, will my game be fun,
>> or slow and crappy?  Civ 4 is the only thing I want, must have, am
>> utterly addicted to, from the windows world!
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Victor
>>
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Victor,

People are reading your pleas for help.  Someone with gaming/Wine 
experience will chime in at some point.  We all have different schedules.

Be patient,

Bruce
PS  I have no gaming or Wine experience.