Comments on: Civilization IV on Linux with Wine 1.1.16

By: Ferdy

Ferdy — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:46:33 +0000

With my config (amd64 phenom, Ubuntu 11.04) you need to call “winetricks” and then install the directx9 files to your wine. You have to do this in case civ4 hangs within the initphase.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 08 May 2011 21:55:21 +0000

Great instructions! thanks for sharing.
I’ve a Crossover games license – their website says you can only run civ4 from the “steam” version and they claim bts doesn’t even run. However, I just loaded the civ4 discs, bts expansion discs and installed the latest bts patch (which eliminates the disk check). All loaded fine but when I execute it crashes with an xml error. Your instructions above to download/replace the *.dll files fixed the xml error and now it works. I can give feedback later about problems with game play… but now I must be off to conqueror new lands !

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 18:11:12 +0000

Install seems to work fine, relevant .dll files copied into folder, and native override added. Whenever I open Civ4 file I get the following Wine Program Crash error:

“Internal errors – invalid parameters received”

This is exactly the same error before I performed the tweaks described in this tutorial. Nothing loads past this, I’ve never got as far as actually opening the game in Linux. Is there a way around this?

I’m running Ubuntu 10.04 with Wine 1.2 on a Dell Inspiron laptop.

Thanks

By: Sound Guy Jon

Sound Guy Jon — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:51:53 +0000

I was able to install Civ IV, with no problems. But it won’t run. When I run it, it shows the splash screen, then goes to a screen with a loading bar and a few things it wants to run through. It freezes when it reaches “Check XML”. It just hangs there forever.
Also, I tried installing the patch, but it tells me that I need to have a previous version installed in order to install the patch.
Suggestions?

By: Cat

Cat — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:34:06 +0000

Thanks! Got this up and running on Ubuntu 10.04 – delighted that I no longer have to boot into Windows whenever I want to play!

However – the little world map in the bottom right hand corner is completely black. Does anyone know how to fix this?

By: J

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:54:05 +0000

also, i am using wine 1.2-rc6.

By: J

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:20:47 +0000

Followed the instructions. Everything installs including the patch (1.74). I have the latest version of wine.

When I start the Civ4.exe in wine it tells me it cannot locate the CD. If I use the no-cd patch (1.74) it crashes immediately after starting.

using Ubuntu 10.04

By: hreichgott

hreichgott — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 21:19:32 +0000

I followed these instructions but can’t get past the point where it asks for the second installation CD.

It asks for the location of the CD, I tell it, it asks for the location of the CD, I tell it, etc.

When I point it to the folder where I put data3.cab on the hard drive it does the same thing.

Any suggestions?

By: Nomada

Nomada — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:48:30 +0000

And for Colonization what I can do?

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:50:44 +0000

I am recieving init engine and it hangs their. I am running backtrack 4. with updated wine.