CIV for luinux

[Joelius Ceasar]

My brother is linux crazed and he want's CIV for linux so I'll go to the free side he wants to know if their is any chance of their being a CIV for linux.

PS I don't mean free CIV but CIV just working on linux.

 

[r_rolo1]

Maybe running Civ IV in a Windows emulator would work.... but AFAIK there is no version of Civ IV for linux

 

[Joelius Ceasar]

Much to my brothers dismay his computor is to slow to do that .

 

[r_rolo1]

I browsed a little ( aka googled " Civ IV on Linux " ) and got this... as a almost complete linux-noob I hope it helps.

 

[Joelius Ceasar]

Thanks my brother will love that.

 

[petermarkab]

It's been a while since I played Civ 4 on linux (got Vista) but I had warlords working using Cedega. I hear now that WINE has better support so maybe use that (WINE is free, Cedega isn't). A few graphical glitches but nothing serious.

 

[_Lasher_]

WINE has very good support for CIV. Thanks to that, I hardly ever boot windows anymore. Games used to be my last reason to use windows at home, but all my CIV-ing is in linux now.
There is no noticable loss of performance. (Remember WINE Is Not an Emulator )

There are some glitches, like petermarkab mentions. Mainly, the progress-bars on the city don't work. You can only see the amount of food/production in the city-screen. And the globe-view is partly black. Not really important for me.
But otherwise: CIV, the extensions and all mods I have tried, work allright.

 

[Atticus]

There's of course Freeciv, which is fun, but not as fun as civ 3 and 4.

 

[TheWilltoAct]

LoL I looked at 2 screenshots... Freeciv appears to suck XD