I have absolutely no issues with my setup and playing games like this. No for things like WoW and Rift, I’ll use wine. It’s always good to have two ways to skin a cat.

Then it says

Archive: /home/bryan/Desktop/autorun.exe
[/home/bryan/Desktop/autorun.exe]
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /home/bryan/Desktop/autorun.exe or
/home/bryan/Desktop/autorun.exe.zip, and cannot find /home/bryan/Desktop/autorun.exe.ZIP, period.

I am wondering if my wine version is already outdated even though I got it less than a month ago. I use the autorun.exe file to try to autorun it. It has the wine symbol, but im not sure if its the right autorun either. Any Ideas?

Thank you!

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?

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

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.

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.