Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition (813780)

[ThaChillera]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
• Steam AppID of the game: 813780

System Information

• GPU: GTX 680
• Driver/LLVM version: nvidia 435.21
• Kernel version: 5.3.8-arch1-1
• Link to full system information report as Gist:
• Proton version: 4.11-7

I confirm:

• that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
• that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

Proton Log

Symptoms

When it starts, I get a splash screen and a popup: Title: "Wine C++ Runtime Library". Text: "A Program: Z F Press OK to exit program, or Cancel to start the Wine debugger."

Reproduction

Just boot the game normally

[aeikum]

Possibly due to missing SpVoice object. From your log:

2901.866:0039:003a:err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {96749377-3391-11d2-9ee3-00c04f797396} could be created for context 0x17
2909.925:0039:003a:trace:seh:NtRaiseException code=80000003 flags=0 addr=0x7bcaf638 ip=7bcaf639 tid=003a

[ThaChillera]

How can I solve this?

[aeikum]

If you want to get into Wine development, implement the SpVoice class and whatever interfaces the app requests (probably ISpeechVoice, possibly more) in dlls/sapi, and see if that is enough to get the game running or if it needs more work past that.

[Marroja]

I have tried installing several versions of VC Runtime, both using Winetricks and with normal prefix installation and none of them worked. I also tried using DotNet but I haven't got past that same error you're telling us @ThaChillera

I tried installing SpVoice dll with winetricks today but still nothing. @aeikum I tried sweeping all the error's on Chillera's log and on mine but still nothing.

In case it helps in any way:

https://gist.github.com/Marroja/2c9b6a118c7d6b19359839b92a3fd7c3

[Marroja]

At the moment I understand the main problem is regarding an unwinding problem. I'm not sure how to deal with it.

[ozyman42]

Seeing this issue on a new install of the officially released game.

[Mte90]

I think that the problem is related also to #2995 so probably in this other ticket there are info to fix this one.

[krisives]

AFAIK this is actually a problem related to sapi.dll not existing?

[busyboredom]

As a workaround, how hard would it be to kill the speech recognition functionality? I don't think sapi would be needed for anything other than speech recognition, right?

[nawaik]

Has anyone tried this yet?

https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe2/comments/dwuplr/how_to_run_age_of_empires_2_definitive_edition_on/

[Mte90]

I am trying this but with the last proton (waiting to download the game).
Anyway this tutorial suggest to use DXVK 1.4.4 or newer and Proton 4.11-8 (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases/tag/proton-4.11-8) already include them.

So the big difference with proton is wine staging that they are at wine 4.20 (https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/4.x/) and to execute the 2 commands of the tutorial to set win10 and reinstall vcrun2017.

So my doubt are more about proton that is using an old version of wine compared to this tutorial.

[mozo78]

Following the instructions from reddit:
https://i.imgur.com/zdleeea.png
Using Wine-Staging 4.20.

[Mte90]

I installed the game in steam with proton 4.11-8 and get the already known error.
Using the reddit thread (after that installation in steam with all the dependence) I am trying with executing protontricks 813780 win10 vcrun2017.
This didn't worked :-(

[Mte90]

After protontricks 813780 speechsdk vcrun2017 win10 I am getting the same error but now the library sapi.dll is avalaible, I am trying to understand if it isn't registered.

"/home/myuser/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Proton 4.11/dist/bin/wine" regsvr32 sapi.dll
Says that is registered rightly.