e-Sword

Wine 4.1 (outdated) -> 6.0. This will perhaps help.

See also this alternative : https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/crossover/e-sword

I got E-Sword to work close to 100%.

My Specs:
Linux Mint 19.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4

I followed the steps for GTA2

http://www.gamersonlinux.com/forum/threads/grand-theft-auto-2-guide.3090/

except I made the following changes….

1. Used Wine version 5.7

2. Wine Configuration.
Application Tab.
Windows version: 10.

3. PlayOnLinux Packages (Components, DLLs, Libraries)

Check the following:
    • POL_Install_corefonts
    • POL_Install_d3dx9
    • POL_Install_tahoma
    • POL_Install_msxml3
    • POL_Install_msxml6
4. Selected and installed
e-sword_1210_setup.exe

5. Named the Virtual Drive and Shortcut as: Esword
6. Did not specify Video memory size.

7. To fix: 0010:err:winediag:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path. Usually, you can find it in the winbind package of your distribution.
Try: sudo apt-get install playonlinux samba winbind
(Reference: https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=33023
https://gist.github.com/raelgc/4ccc023830bfd12c0227 )

I could not get the Fonts menu to work but after looking at the debug list, I was able to trace the problem to https://www.playonlinux.com/en/topic-8693-SC2_for_POL_on_Unbuntu_1204_fails.html

and running

sudo apt-get install libjpeg62:i386

fixes the Font Settings issue ]

Seems to work well.
However still some issues reported in the POL Log, newer versions of Wine (>4.1) may help.