ash88
Hail to the King Baby -DN
Yeah - thanks for being our "torch bearer" on this shared journey to get all this working Damunzy. You have given up valuable meglomaniac-world-conquering-time for this!
Here is an update from me after a little more research and a reinstall of Civ (not wine) tonight.
- After running wine /media/cdrom/setup.exe for the Vanilla Civ4 install the DirectX installer comes up by default and is a default option. After reading the Wine FAQ I see that the intention is probably not to install DirectX here. If this is the case, for clarity I recommend that the instructions say that you cancel out of the DirectX install part of the installer.
- I upgraded to the Nvidia 190.16 Beta Drivers released yesterday (July 21st, 2009). This corrected the problem with renderer uninitializing issue. This is further evidence that part of the problem is in the Nvidia driver itself. I recommend trying this Beta driver out if someone is having similar problems.
- BTS (Release) wouldn't install - but I got around it!. I was getting a lot of "err:setupapi:do_file_copyW Unsupported style(s) 0x144" and then the installer just exited. I switched from Windows 2000 to Windows XP and BAM - installed first time.
- The wine eject instructions aren't correct, as I have detailed above. Wine eject is used to swap CDs during an install where you need to swap CDs (as Ubuntu keeps the in-use CD mounted) - not eject a CD after the installation is done.
Am I any closer? Where I stand now:
When I try to install BTS Patch 3.19 I get the following in the terminal window:
err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet ReadStyleSheet: skipping optional destination
When I try to load Civ4 1.72 I get a "Serious Error" and a blue screen.. eerily resembling a BSD, but without any text.
Oh where oh where is my Civ4?
Here is an update from me after a little more research and a reinstall of Civ (not wine) tonight.
- After running wine /media/cdrom/setup.exe for the Vanilla Civ4 install the DirectX installer comes up by default and is a default option. After reading the Wine FAQ I see that the intention is probably not to install DirectX here. If this is the case, for clarity I recommend that the instructions say that you cancel out of the DirectX install part of the installer.
- I upgraded to the Nvidia 190.16 Beta Drivers released yesterday (July 21st, 2009). This corrected the problem with renderer uninitializing issue. This is further evidence that part of the problem is in the Nvidia driver itself. I recommend trying this Beta driver out if someone is having similar problems.
- BTS (Release) wouldn't install - but I got around it!. I was getting a lot of "err:setupapi:do_file_copyW Unsupported style(s) 0x144" and then the installer just exited. I switched from Windows 2000 to Windows XP and BAM - installed first time.
- The wine eject instructions aren't correct, as I have detailed above. Wine eject is used to swap CDs during an install where you need to swap CDs (as Ubuntu keeps the in-use CD mounted) - not eject a CD after the installation is done.
Am I any closer? Where I stand now:
When I try to install BTS Patch 3.19 I get the following in the terminal window:
err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet ReadStyleSheet: skipping optional destination
When I try to load Civ4 1.72 I get a "Serious Error" and a blue screen.. eerily resembling a BSD, but without any text.
Oh where oh where is my Civ4?