Civ IV Ubuntu

[PiR]

I've switched from Windows 10 to Ubuntu on and old desktop as the PC does not have the hardware requirements for Windows 11.

Civ IV used to work perfectly with W10.

Steam and other games work with Ubuntu.

But Civ IV has graphical issues, it says the hardware requirements are not met and put the graphics on minimal.

As you can see the text is not beautiful at the moment:

Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS 64 bits
Linux 6.14.0-27-generic
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
8GB RAM

Any tip?

 

[a pen-dragon]

You are using the steam installation? If so that should handle the game itself running without errors. Steam is using Proton which is based on wine, so the following should be similar.

If not are you using wine directly?

Anyway look at the Wine HQ Civ4 page .

Now the text looks like you are not using the fonts provided with the game. The game font can be found at .../Civ 4 (base game)/Assets/res/Fonts as Sylfaen.ttf .

This font needs to be copied to where your wine (proton) installation stores its fonts. For wine it is (your wineprefix)/drive_c/windows/fonts .

But Civ IV has graphical issues, it says the hardware requirements are not met and put the graphics on minimal.

This is probably just the program not seeing the true capabilities due to some wine thing and should not matter. Set whatever graphical settings you want and restart the game. If this does not help, I am out of my depth. I would suggest you then take a look at your graphics driver, maybe try out open-source and proprietary drivers. For how to do this, look in Linux / Ubuntu specific formus. (Askubuntu or archlinux come to mind)