Linux or wine?

[kierun]

Has anyone tried to run Napoleon on Linux under wine? I am assuming that it will not run at all but if it does, I'll be able to play at lunchtimes at work.

I won't whine for a linux version as that would be hard.

[Pocus]

BOA worked on wine, albeit a bit slowly. So Napo should works on it, slowly...

[kierun]

BOA worked on wine, albeit a bit slowly. So Napo should works on it, slowly...

Okay, I'll give that a try.

Will it be usable with the download version of the game? -- yeah, I know, I am close to whining about wine here. ;>

[Pocus]

you can try on the version you prefer...

[Rafiki]

-- yeah, I know, I am close to whining about wine here. ;>

Do share your experiences though! I'm a WINE rookie (though not a rookie at whining ), and in my limited attempts, I haven't gotten very far, so I'd be very interested if people are able to get any further, and if so, how they got there.

[kierun]

Do share your experiences though! I'm a WINE rookie (though not a rookie at whining ), and in my limited attempts, I haven't gotten very far, so I'd be very interested if people are able to get any further, and if so, how they got there.

Update wine to the latest release version then:
$ wine /path/to/disk_or_install_file/setup.exe
Follow what it says. Try running the game and see what happens -- hint: it generally crashes with some horrible message.

Wine is great when it just works. If not, you have to go to their site and submit a bug report/feature request. Make sure you offer to beta test anything. It maybe worth trying the latest development version as well.

[Rafiki]

Update wine to the latest release version then:
$ wine /path/to/disk_or_install_file/setup.exe
Follow what it says. Try running the game and see what happens -- hint: it generally crashes with some horrible message.

Yup, that's just about as far as I got.

Wine is great when it just works. If not, you have to go to their site and submit a bug report/feature request. Make sure you offer to beta test anything. It maybe worth trying the latest development version as well.

If I had time to follow up on it, I might've done so. Since I have no porblems playing the games as is, I'll just wait and see, I guess

[kierun]

Once I get the game, I'll see if I can get it run at work under Linux. I'll write a small how to here if it works... It probably won't.

[kierun]

Once I get the game, I'll see if I can get it run at work under Linux. I'll write a small how to here if it works... It probably won't.

Downloaded the game today -- was taken hostage by revolutionary syndicates in Paris during the weekend.

I tried to install it on Linux. The game installed fine but does not run. If anyone here has more experience with wine, here is the debug. I am running wine-0.9.30 on Linux 2.6.18.8.

; wine '.wine/drive_c/Program Files/NapoleonsCampaigns/NCP.exe'
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x0000003c at address 0x708a72 (thr ead 0009), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x0000003c in 32-bit code (0x0 0708a72).
Register dump:
CS:0073 SS:007b DS:007b ES:007b FS:0033 GS:003b
EIP:00708a72 ESP:0033fd4c EBP:0033fd60 EFLAGS:00010217( - 00 RIAP1C)
EAX:7efff62c EBX:00000000 ECX:00016814 EDX:5f09435b
ESI:00628752 EDI:00110758
Stack dump:
0x0033fd4c: 00000000 7efe54c8 007292ac 00725822
0x0033fd5c: 00000000 0033fd80 00711cb7 0033fd6c
0x0033fd6c: 6e72656b 32336c65 6c6c642e 0033fd00
0x0033fd7c: 7efa28d5 0033fdcc 0072da49 0074f3da
0x0033fd8c: 0071064f 0033fd98 0000001c 0033fe38
0x0033fd9c: 7efa433a 7ed4d310 7efe54c8 0033fdd8
Backtrace:
=>1 0x00708a72 in ncp (+0x308a72) (0x0033fd60)
2 0x00711cb7 in ncp (+0x311cb7) (0x0033fd80)
3 0x0072da49 in ncp (+0x32da49) (0x0033fdcc)
4 0x00659cc0 in ncp (+0x259cc0) (0x0033fdd8)
5 0x7efa4285 in ntdll (+0x24285) (0x0033fe78)
6 0x7efa4631 in ntdll (+0x24631) (0x0033feb8)
7 0x7efa73b6 LdrInitializeThunk+0x276() in ntdll (0x0033ff08)
8 0x7ee2d2e9 in kernel32 (+0x4d2e9) (0x0033ffe8)
9 0xb7dfb567 wine_switch_to_stack+0x17() in libwine.so.1 (0x00000000)
0x00708a72: movl 0x3c(%ebx),%ecx
Modules:
Module Address Debug info Name (46 modules)
PE 400000-761000 Export ncp
ELF 7bf00000-7bf03000 Deferred <wine-loader>
ELF 7d5eb000-7d608000 Deferred imm32<elf>
\-PE 7d5f0000-7d608000 \ imm32
ELF 7d608000-7d611000 Deferred libxrender.so.1
ELF 7d61f000-7d63d000 Deferred ximcp.so.2
ELF 7debd000-7dec6000 Deferred libgcc_s.so.1
ELF 7dec6000-7dece000 Deferred librt.so.1
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ELF 7ea3b000-7ea40000 Deferred libxfixes.so.3
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ELF 7ea49000-7ea4c000 Deferred xlcdef.so.2
ELF 7ea4c000-7ea50000 Deferred libxrandr.so.2
ELF 7ea67000-7eaf5000 Deferred winex11<elf>
\-PE 7ea80000-7eaf5000 \ winex11
ELF 7eaf5000-7eb15000 Deferred libexpat.so.0
ELF 7eb15000-7eb44000 Deferred libfontconfig.so.1
ELF 7eb44000-7eba9000 Deferred libfreetype.so.6
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\-PE 7ebb0000-7ebee000 \ advapi32
ELF 7ebee000-7ec83000 Deferred gdi32<elf>
\-PE 7ec00000-7ec83000 \ gdi32
ELF 7ec83000-7edbe000 Deferred user32<elf>
\-PE 7eca0000-7edbe000 \ user32
ELF 7edbe000-7eee6000 Export kernel32<elf>
\-PE 7ede0000-7eee6000 \ kernel32
ELF 7eee6000-7eef1000 Deferred libnss_files.so.2
ELF 7eef1000-7eefb000 Deferred libnss_nis.so.2
ELF 7eefb000-7ef11000 Deferred libnsl.so.1
ELF 7ef11000-7ef1b000 Deferred libnss_compat.so.2
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ELF 7ef6a000-7f000000 Export ntdll<elf>
\-PE 7ef80000-7f000000 \ ntdll
ELF b7c83000-b7c87000 Deferred libdl.so.2
ELF b7c87000-b7db6000 Deferred libc.so.6
ELF b7db6000-b7dc8000 Deferred libpthread.so.0
ELF b7dc8000-b7dcb000 Deferred libxinerama.so.1
ELF b7dcb000-b7dd0000 Deferred libxxf86vm.so.1
ELF b7df4000-b7f05000 Export libwine.so.1