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Age of Mythology Windows Version Problem

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alperkabakci Tuesday 30 July 2013 at 22:41
alperkabakci

Hello,
First of all i tried to age of mythology from pol's script but that didn't work for me and generally my pol gives error when starting autorun like autorun.dll, sometimes doesn't run exe and wants me to select shortcut etc. Then i started to edit scripts manual installations. I installed age of mythology created shortcut when i try to run shortcut it says:
Title: DirectX 8.1 or later is required
This game requires microsoft windows 98/ME, windows 2000 or windows xp or later

But i installed directx9 and wine has been set to windows xp. When i try starting game exe on my system it works fine but shortcut doesn't work. I think if i can change start command maybe it works well. Thanks for comments...

Xubuntu 13.04, xfce, wine version 1.6

Debugger:
[07/30/13 23:24:01] - Running wine- aom.exe (Working directory : /home/alper/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Age_Of_Mythology/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of Mythology)
fixme:msctf:LangBarMgr_GetShowFloatingStatus STUB:(0x143760)
fixme:msctf:LangBarMgr_ShowFloating STUB:(0x143760)
fixme:imm:ImmDisableTextFrameService Stub
fixme:imm:ImmReleaseContext (0x10050, 0x143858): stub
fixme:imm:NotifyIME NI_CLOSECANDIDATE
fixme:imm:ImmGetOpenStatus (0x143858): semi-stub
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32ee68,0x00000000), stub!
[07/30/13 23:34:45] - Running wine- aom.exe (Working directory : /home/alper/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Age_Of_Mythology/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of Mythology)

Edited by alperkabakci


booman Thursday 8 August 2013 at 0:05
booman

So you are just having a problem with this "DirectX 8.1 or later is required" error when launching the game?
Maybe there is a different exe file that launches DirectX 8 instead of the one you are using.
Try creating a new shortcut from PlayOnLinux and see what other .exe files it finds.
Maybe there is another one like aom.exe or some kind of launcher.exe?

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Ronin DUSETTE Thursday 8 August 2013 at 5:57
Ronin DUSETTE

Post full computer specs and debug output from the INSTALL of the game, and lets see what is going on.

Please:
Post debug logs & full computer specs in first post
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booman Thursday 8 August 2013 at 14:57
booman

Yes, what DJ said....
Because it could be a driver issue or a 64-bit vs 32-bit issue

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alperkabakci Thursday 8 August 2013 at 17:13
alperkabakci

booman i looked for new exe but it seems like there is not =( Here is the debugger output http://tny.cz/bf5fcd88 and i have 32-bit wine.

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