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1. GAMES LIKE AGE OF EMPIRES STEAM HOW TO
2. GAMES LIKE AGE OF EMPIRES STEAM UPDATE
3. GAMES LIKE AGE OF EMPIRES STEAM FULL

Someone figures out that if the game runs on Windows 10 the older library.dll is used instead, a game specific hack that reports version 10 for Game3.exe is added and the game works. This is undocumented behaviour but works on Windows, so the behaviour in Wine is changed to match Windows. Turns out that Game2.exe now calls Bar with NULL instead of the expected integer value.

GAMES LIKE AGE OF EMPIRES STEAM UPDATE

Bar is implemented in Wine, the game works.Īn update to Game2.exe is released and crashes on start in Wine.

GAMES LIKE AGE OF EMPIRES STEAM FULL

The sequel Game2.exe is released but crashes on start because it needs the full implementation of Bar.

Bar isn't really used by the game so a minimal version is added to fulfil the dependency for the game. Foo and Bar are implemented by someone reading the API documentation from Microsoft. Game.exe is released but crashes on start in Wine. I'm guessing most of you already knows this, but here's a simplified turn of events for Proton/Wine development that's hopefully not altogether incorrect: Then, all of the buildings and units were invisible due to a bug in how things were arranged in video memory:įinally, a crash would occur as the game used some invalid printf() format specifiers, which windows would ignore, but wine previously didn't: Only three changes were needed to get the game to work, and all of them were general fixes which could apply to other games:įirst, a missing function needed to be added, or the game wouldn't start up: has visuals that eclipse the later 3D graphics of AoE 3. The civilizations and more advanced units within them are obviously different but play-wise and strategy-wise, the two are very close. In the case of Age of Empires IV at least, none of the changes needed were game specific hacks. is arguably the closest comparable game to Age of Empires 2. Why are game specific fixes or hacks needed so often? Or is there now a line in proton something like: Quoting: NameHereI often see this sort of thing and wonder: are these general fixes to proton that have been missed? Make sure it's installed by searching for it in your Steam Library, then select it from the Compatibility menu in the Properties section of a game.

GAMES LIKE AGE OF EMPIRES STEAM HOW TO

Need to know how to actually use Proton Experimental? Here's a simple HOWTO (as it's not complicated!). See the Proton Experimental changelog to see all the current differences. Have to hand it to the developers at Valve and CodeWeavers working on Proton, they certainly know their stuff. Buy at your own peril for now but hey - a couple days from release is pretty damn good for the latest title to begin working. It should work across both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs now too, although it's all still experimental of course and currently multiplayer is problematic. That was the single change noted in the update notes from Valve for Proton Experimental for November 11. That's right, you can now play the latest (and greatest?) from Playground Games and Xbox Game Studios on Linux. So it wasn't enough that Age of Empires 4 from Xbox Game Studios was now playable on Linux, Proton Experimental has once again been upgraded to get Forza Horizon 5 off the starting line.