Age of Empires 2 (2013) (221380)

[sandsmark]

same issue as when people earlier tried to run aoe2hd with wine.

if you replace Launcher.exe with «AoK HD.exe» the game seems to launch and work perfectly.

[KapiX]

Launcher.exe requires mfc140u.dll to run. Dropping it in game directory fixes the issue.

[dfduarte]

Confirmed the "partial" solution using the mfc140u.dll. However, the following problem happens:

1- When running without the dll file, the games freezes (then closes afterwards) with no message
2- After copying the dll to the Age 2 dir, the whole install process starts, but the install crashes right after installing the DirectX seven, closing the "load screen" again.
3- When putting the AoK HD.exe in place of Launcher, I get a error regarding a image failing to load in the textures folder. The game crashes after that

My machine is:

Computer Information:
    Manufacturer:  Unknown
    Model:  Unknown
    Form Factor: Desktop
    No Touch Input Detected

Processor Information:
    CPU Vendor:  AuthenticAMD
    CPU Brand:  AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 270 Processor
    CPU Family:  0x10
    CPU Model:  0x6
    CPU Stepping:  0x3
    CPU Type:  0x0
    Speed:  3400 Mhz
    2 logical processors
    2 physical processors
    HyperThreading:  Unsupported
    FCMOV:  Supported
    SSE2:  Supported
    SSE3:  Supported
    SSSE3:  Unsupported
    SSE4a:  Supported
    SSE41:  Unsupported
    SSE42:  Unsupported
    AES:  Unsupported
    AVX:  Unsupported
    CMPXCHG16B:  Supported
    LAHF/SAHF:  Supported
    PrefetchW:  Unsupported

Operating System Version:
    Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS (64 bit)
    Kernel Name:  Linux
    Kernel Version:  4.15.0-32-generic
    X Server Vendor:  The X.Org Foundation
    X Server Release:  11906000
    X Window Manager:  Compiz
    Steam Runtime Version:  steam-runtime-beta-release_2018-06-14

Video Card:
    Driver:  NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 750 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
    Driver Version:  4.5.0 NVIDIA 384.130
    OpenGL Version: 4.5
    Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
    Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz
    VendorID:  0x10de
    DeviceID:  0x1380
    Revision Not Detected
    Number of Monitors:  1
    Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
    Primary Display Resolution:  1366 x 768
    Desktop Resolution: 1366 x 768
    Primary Display Size: 16.14" x 9.06" (18.50" diag)
                                            41.0cm x 23.0cm (47.0cm diag)
    Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
    Primary VRAM: 2048 MB
    Supported MSAA Modes:  2x 4x 8x 16x 

Sound card:
    Audio device: Realtek ALC887-VD

Memory:
    RAM:  7975 Mb

Miscellaneous:
    UI Language:  English
    LANG:  en_US.UTF-8
    Total Hard Disk Space Available:  250461 Mb
    Largest Free Hard Disk Block:  40602 Mb
    VR Headset: None detected

Recent Failure Reports:

[ryao]

env WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/compatdata/221380/pfx/ WINEPATH=$HOME/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Proton\ 3.7/dist/bin/wine winetricks vcrun2015

Running this winetricks command enabled things to work, although it seems hackish. The launcher buttons are also missing text.

[DrCox1911]

Works fine for me, only thing I did was renaming the "AoK HD.exe" to "Launcher.exe".

[felisucoibi]

This is a old knowm bug of aoe2 in wine (i was one of the bug trackers of this game in winehq.com) and yes just reanimg works.
Go to the folder of the game and rename Launcer.exe to Launcher2.exe and Aoe 2.exe to Launcher.exe

BUT

There is also a bug with hdmi screen in laptop if using nvidia output, it just works perfect with intel card enabled using nvidia config, but if you run it in a laptop via hdmi with nvidia enabled it stucks.

And also there is a font flickering and a black background in writing areas problem easy to fix too.

In total are 4 BUGS, but you can play this game with the workarrounds.

[legluondunet]

Another bug for this game: cinematics do not play, could be related to issue #1464.

[nwildner]

Don't know if this adds more info to this issue but i had to replace Launcher.exe with AoK HD.exe and add the NoStartup launch parameter for the game to launch.

Didn't tested online gameplay but as far as i could get Single player modes are running great. yay!
Edit: Ok, online game is working :)

Running on: Arch Linux(k4.18) + AMD FX9370 + Nvidia GTX 6050ti + Nvidia 396.54-2 driver version.

[hogar1977]

@felisucoibi I also played this game via Crossover before and it worked really well, but after trying out this steam version (after renaming AoK HD.exe into Launcher.exe) I have a problem with elo - it reports that elo is out of bounds and it resets to 1600 after every game (regardless of winning or losing). Did you experience the same problem?

Also what is the workaround for black text on black background in writing areas so they become effectively invisible?

[felisucoibi]

Yes, same problem here... the elo reset to 1600, i didnt say anything because i dont use it and i forgot to report....

There is not workarround for the black background when writing... never has been by now.

[hogar1977]

@felisucoibi

This is why I asked for workaround, I thought u were talking about that:

And also there is a font flickering and a black background in writing areas problem easy to fix too.

Cheers anyway, I hope someone will figure out the elo problem because now even my windows and Crossover installation is affected :-) Maybe I just have to reinstall everything there and it will go away, but I'm too lazy to do that...

[kisak-valve]

Age of Empires II: HD Edition - game works with issues

Issue transferred from #1285.
@hogar1977 posted on 2018-09-06T18:27:58:

Hi there,
the game works if 'AoK HD.exe' is renamed into 'Launcher.exe' and nostartup is added into launch options.
Issue 1: ELO system is not behaving properly - the game 'thinks' that elo is 0:0 and reports it as out of bounds at selecting multiplayer and after every played multiplayer game it tries to add/subtract elo points to/from 0:0 values which still makes them out of bounds and elo finally gets reset to 1600 every time. The game is completely playable except for the ELO bug in multiplayer.
I play this game regularly via Crossover and the elo bug is not present there - I presume because the Steam client itself is part of the wine 'bottle' and it is the windows version of Steam client that is also emulated. Since elo system is tightly interwoven with the Steam client, I guess that's where the problem lies...

Issue 2: In-game chat windows - text is black on black background, so during typing of a message it's not possible to see it. This particular bug is wine related I guess... It exists in my Crossover installation and now it's also present in the Steam for Linux via Proton variant. Haven't found any solution for it until now.

Other than this, the game runs smoothly with no crashes... For me it actually performs better than on my Windows 10 machine (there I experience at least one crash per session of gaming and is somehow slower...).