wine users - Jul 2011 - Wine 1.3.24 and Age of Conan: Anybody made it work?

Hey all,

Yesterday I compiled and installed 1.3.24, and after having done that I thought
I'd give the new Age of Conan Unchained thingie a whirl, just to see if it
worked.

Long story short, it didn't. I was fairly sure the installer/patcher was
doing its thing, because it was pulling some 8GB worth of data to my disk, but
all the while it was doing it, all I got was a an empty window.

When the installer/patcher was done (or rather when it stopped pulling data), I
started the game, and got the same empty window.

My system:

Slackware 13.37
Kernel 2.6.38.8
Nvidia 275.09.7
Wine 1.3.24

So I was just wondering: Have anybody here made it work, and if so, what magic
tricks did you use?

The reason I tried my hand at it, was this post:
http://forums-eu.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=158428

Obviously things did not as smooth for me. I'm not a hardcore Wine tinkerer,
so I tend to stick with software that just works "out of the box",
such as EVE Online.

:)
Thomas

I started a similar conversation about AoC and Wine except my system is Mac OS X
10.6.8 (now) here: http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=12711

I'm pretty sure the installer DOES NOT completely work.  It seems to
download and still the front 7-8GB of data, but I'm almost certain that the
final patching step at the very end of the installation process (and also all
future incremental patches) fails with a "zlib is unable to decompress
stream" error which I'm sure results in having a partially broken
installation.  I haven't had the time to try to run the repair installation
program using a Windows VM yet.  Because the process is long and slow, I need a
large block of time to do it.

You also need dhcpcsvc.dll copied from a Windows installation into your
WINEPREFIX/drive_c/windows/system32 directory.

I don't know if wine 1.3.24 fixes it or not, but you also at least need to
install d3dx9_36.dll, which can be done via winetricks.

As of my last test, the patcher window is blank, so after you manage to get the
game properly installed and patched, you will probably need to prevent the
patcher from running at game start up by removing the HttpPatchFolder entry from
the LocalConfig.xml file.  (Best make a backup of that file first.) This is the
blank window you are seeing.

You should set the WINEDEBUG environment variable to -all to actually see what
the installer/patcher is doing.  Post what errors you get on the console. 
I'm curious to know if the problems are different in Linux to know whether
the problem is with the XQuartz X11 server on Mac or there are limitations that
Wine hasn't overcome yet.

i tried with wine-1.3.24 on fedora 15 64bit with ati proprietary drivers (11.6)
and i made it to the login screen atleast.

what i did:

1. copied DHCPCSVC.DLL into the game directory
2. executed 'winetricks d3dx9_36'

actually there is downtime now due to server maintainance so i cannot test
further for now.

What works:
* ConanPatcher.exe starts
* AgeOfConan.exe starts up and loads login screen

What doesent:
* ConanSystemTweaker.exe fails

What was not tested:
* Char creation
* Entering gameworld