Comments on: Civilization IV on Linux, Updated How-to

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:47:22 +0000

Weird. I followed the tutorial to the letter and the game loads and runs fine, with one exception: every game lasts exactly ten turns. Any idea what I can do to make this game last the time that it is supposed to?!?

Thank you!

By: Chasalin

Chasalin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:30:33 +0000

I have Civ IV 1.09 up and running under Ubuntu 9.10/wine 1.1.38 (Gnome as well as Xfce), but have a few problems:

The map is completely black. Not fog of war black, but without texture.
Had to disable Compiz in order to get anything at all (menu was scrambled with Compiz on.

I DO get water motion, but no landscape texture, unless I build an improvement.

Also after playing around 120 turns, the game crashes. Even loading a save game and altering the timeline, gives the same result.
I guess it’s some event, but most likely not one of the following:
* invention
* diplomacy
* wonder
* great person
* era switch
* battle
because I already had that kind of stuff…

Other problem: Full screen f***s up multi monitor configs with my Ati card. Solution: disable multi monitor before playing.

Anyone interested in the logs?

By: Helio

Helio — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:39:43 +0000

I’ve managed to successfully install Civ 4 under wine but I cannot play it. After launching the game, it got stuck in the “Init Python” screen, just like Siggen says several posts above. Any suggestion?

By: Tofe

Tofe — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:53:30 +0000

@kith7: the same for me, but the other way around

Also you have to realize that people that don’t have problems with Linux usually don’t post comments, so we mainly see problems here.
For me, everything works fine, I have Civilization 4 + Warlords extension, and it’s a pleasure to play that game.
About the time value: for my part I value stability a lot. I mean that if I take the shortcut I’ve made for Civ4 in one year, I’m quite sure it will work as well. On Windows I was never sure of anything. But, well, what is wonderful with Linux world is that eh, if you want to choose Windows, then go on ! You’re free

By: kith7

kith7 — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:01:17 +0000

linux is all about how to do a trick to make things work.. good luck I have Civ 4 installed on my windows and there is no saying that everything works except…. I used to be a linux fan, yet after I had started to value my time I switched to windows because of compatibility issues.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:40:13 +0000

doesnt work for me…

When I launch .exe in terminal I get this:

‘/home/steve/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Firaxis Games/Sid Meier’\'’s Civilization 4/Civilization4.exe’
err:module:find_forwarded_export function not found for forward ‘d3dx8.D3DXGetImageInfoFromFileInMemory’ used by L”C:\\windows\\system32\\d3dx9_36.dll”. If you are using builtin L”d3dx9_36.dll”, try using the native one instead.
err:module:find_forwarded_export function not found for forward ‘d3dx9_36.D3DXGetImageInfoFromFileInMemory’ used by L”C:\\windows\\system32\\d3dx9_32.dll”. If you are using builtin L”d3dx9_32.dll”, try using the native one instead.
fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on HDA ATI HDMI, disabling mixer
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 55 (SPI_SETMOUSEKEYS)
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 59 (SPI_SETSTICKYKEYS)
fixme:cursor:CURSORICON_CreateIconFromANI Loading all frames for .ani cursors not implemented.
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {9a5ea990-3034-4d6f-9128-01f3c61022bc} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {9a5ea990-3034-4d6f-9128-01f3c61022bc} could be created for context 0×1
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
err:seh:raise_exception Exception frame is not in stack limits => unable to dispatch exception.
steve@steve-laptop ~ $ err:menubuilder:Process_Link unable to load L”C:\\Program Files\\Firaxis Games\\Sid Meier’s Civilization 4\\Logs.lnk”
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
err:menubuilder:WinMain failed to build menu item for C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier’s Civilization 4\Logs.lnk
err:menubuilder:Process_Link unable to load L”C:\\Program Files\\Firaxis Games\\Sid Meier’s Civilization 4\\Saves.lnk”
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
err:menubuilder:WinMain failed to build menu item for C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier’s Civilization 4\Saves.lnk
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
err:menubuilder:Process_Link unable to load L”C:\\Program Files\\Firaxis Games\\Sid Meier’s Civilization 4\\CivilizationIV.ini.lnk”
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
err:menubuilder:WinMain failed to build menu item for C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier’s Civilization 4\CivilizationIV.ini.lnk

So I can’t even launch the game to get to the .ini. If anyone could help me out here I would be forever indebted.

By: Eduardo

Eduardo — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:31:24 +0000

It’s not clear that it won’t work until you install DirectX9 on WINE. (At least i followed all the previous steps and it wasn’t enough)

Here is how you install directx on wine (SPANISH):
http://www.taringa.net/posts/linux/1305733/Instalar-DirectX-9-con-wine.html

in my Inspiron6400 CIV IV plays better than in W$ XP, ga me performance is faster with the highest graphics configuration avaible.

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By: dave

dave — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:47:58 +0000

hi, i installed civ4 with patch ver 1.6 and cracked executable it loads up and gets to the main menu but then the mouse stops functioning properly, the cursor looks like the proper civ4 cursor but does not click properly and reverts back to the ubuntu cursor when scrolled over the top and bottom borders, i find the only way to get around click the buttons is to use the tab and spacebar method, which i think we can all understand is not very feasible with this particular game, anyways, alot of fixme errors flood the terminal when loading begins so i wont post the entire thing unless you really want it but the lines i believe to be most relavent could be:

fixme:cursor:CURSORICON_CreateIconFromANI Loading all frames for .ani cursors not implemented.

there are alot of those but i could be wrong
also i am on a laptop using a Syn/PS2 Synaptics touchpad, i also tried a microsoft usb infrared mouse but with the same results.
any help and or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thank your for your time i hope someone is out there