I've just installed Empire: Total War without any hiccups (It is validated and runs through Steam). However, When I try to launch the game it just hangs with a window saying "Launching Empire: Total war" for ages without any apparent progress. I would post the terminal output but I do not know how to for games that run through steam. Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks in advance
Since steam launches the app, the backtrace is tough. Browse through program files and look for the exe. With steam open, see if the exe will launch. -Tres On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:06 PM, llama_attack <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> I've just installed Empire: Total War without any hiccups (It is validated and runs through Steam). However, When I try to launch the game it just hangs with a window saying "Launching Empire: Total war" for ages without any apparent progress. I would post the terminal output but I do not know how to for games that run through steam. Any help would be greatly appreciated > > Thanks in advance > > > > > >-- - Tres.Finocchiaro at gmail.com
Actually it's working now, just a day-zero bug or something, windows had the same problem. Thanks anyway
I take back what I just said, When i go to run the game, the first intro screen comes up no problem, but then I think the intro video causes some problems. Is there any way to deactivate them?
Well, I submitted the information to the AppDB so it's at least stored somewhere. Still gotta fix the battles though.
I installed it last night through steam as well. It started up but there was no sound and then it crash when I tried to start a campaign. I then edited the launcher cmd line to match what I use for EVE Online and so far everything works fine - sound too - and no crashes. Click Applications -> Wine -> Configure Wine Click Audio Check the OSS Driver box and deselect any others Click OK Right click your Empire Total War icon on your desktop. Click Properties Click Launcher Copy the contents on the Command textbox somewhere to backup the original entry - for example mine was: env WINEPREFIX="/home/username/.wine" wine "C:\Program Files\Steam\steam.exe" -applaunch 10500 Change that to this: padsp wine explorer /desktop=0,1024x768 "C:\Program Files\Steam\steam.exe" Modify the 1024x768 to whatever dimensions you'd like. See if this works for you. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Unable-to-start-Empire%3A-Total-War-tp22384282p22424733.html Sent from the Wine - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
One more thing I forgot to mention - I also have changes related to Direct3D in my user.reg which may help - certainly does for EVE. [Software\\Wine\\Direct3D] "DirectDrawRenderer"="opengl" "OffscreenRenderingMode"="fbo" "PixelShaderMode"="enabled" "VertexShaderMode"="hardware" The file is located in ~/.wine/user.reg Make a backup copy before editing. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Unable-to-start-Empire%3A-Total-War-tp22384282p22424962.html Sent from the Wine - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Didn't do anything for me. Sound works ok for me btw, so didn't change any of that. Still freezes when it starts to load battles after changing user.reg. The first time I ran i got some error in the console (which also crashed..) about creating a dump in relation to some 32bit instruction. I'm running the AMD64 version of Ubuntu, maybe that can cause the problem, donnow. I added the game to the AppDB btw, you can find it here: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=15915 Thanks for your suggestions :) If I am correct in understanding your post, you can't get the campaign to load? Did you try setting graphics to medium? This solved some issues for me (i have an nvidia 7900gt btw). Do battles work for you?
I also have some issues with the right side of the screen (about 20%) not correctly showing the overlay things (movement overlay, borderlines etc). Units are drawn correctly though. Currently running 1440x900 windowed, medium gfx
Turning on the Distortion effects appears to be the culprit when it comes to the original problem I had regarding the campaign map, where the top section of the screen was bugged.