wine users - Oct 2009 - Total War (Rome and Medieval demo's) - crash on my setup

I'm newish to Linux and new to WINE.

I've downloaded the Rome-Total War demo, and the Medieval-Total War demo
(the first one, not Med-II).

They both appear to have installed OK, but both crash with an error message if I
attempt to start them.

Other applications I've tried (Paint Shop Pro 4.12, Microsoft powerpoint
viewer 2003, for examples) seem to work OK.


Total War error basically says:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Program Error
The program <rome.exe> has encountered a serious problem and needs to
close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

It then goes on to say this may be caused by the program or a deficiency in Wine
and gives the database site and the bugs list URLs.
---------------------------------------------------------------------

The above appears before anything appears to have really started up, i.e. no
splash screens or menus appear. Similar fault for Medieval but the file is
<Medieval_TD.exe>.

The AppDB seems to imply the demo for Rome should be OK, but that Med may not
be.


Question: Can anyone tell me if either of these demo's does or should run on
WINE? Or is there a particular file/folder/option I need to create or alter in
order to get them running?

Kernel - 2.6.26.8
Wine - wine-1.1.28
Running KDE 4.3.2

CPU - 800 Ath
Ram 768M
GPU - GF2/64M


I realize the H/W specs maybe a little near the lower end, but I think they meet
the min requirements (Ram/GPU) and maybe just under for CPU - would this stop it
running?


Thanks.

Rome most likely won't run because of the CPU indeed. And Medieval TW is
garbage according to the AppDB. Maybe using NoCD cracks helps, if you're not
using those already.

And could you please attach the terminal output? That'll make it easier for
us to help you.

As luck would have it 1-1-32 has just arrived in the package manager, and is now
installed.

No joy, it still fails to run either.

I guess thats it then for these demos, as its not worth spending cash on such an
old PC (assuming it is the GF2 thats causing the problem).


Thanks for all assistance/comments.