Emperor Battle For Dune Resolution Patch
Weekend after weekend I looked forward to going to my mother's job so I can play the Dune II on her office computer. Because of my fascination with the first game and Frank Herberst's books I bought and will buy every Dune RTS computer game. So I the fact that I have Emperor Battle for Dune is not a surprise for me.
What works. Installing. Playing What does not. The textures are black unless you run the game with 'wine Emperor.exe -C'. Scrolling the map is unusually fast. But you can decrease the scroll speed in the options. Workarounds What was not tested.
Only played the tutorial so far. Hardware tested Graphics:. GPU:. Driver: Additional Comments When the game looks for the CD just remove all CDROM drives from winecfg and start the game again. When it does not find the CD again wine will create a new CDROM drive letter. This is the one which will work.
But you may have to change the path in resource.cfg (in the game directory). How to run the game You need to run the game with the -C command line switch, like 'wine emperor.exe -C'.
Problems installing from CD? This is howto for people who can't install Emperor directly form CD. 1) First of all visit website Dune2k.com and download Install patch for Emperor. 2) Coppy your Setup folder from the cd.
Replace the Setup.exe with exe from the patch. 3) Run Setup.exe through terminal.
It should be displaying: enter the cd to the drive. 4) Don't close message from your install. Run another terminal and enter wincfg. When you are in it, click on 'Drives' button and create drive with D letter, set it as CD-ROM. Set path to this drive as /media/Emperor1/ (or whatever path you have to your CD-ROM). And apply changes.
Don't close winecfg! 5) Switch to the installation and click ok on the 'Insert cd' message. It should disappear and installation should began. 6) When you are going to play, enter the Emperor's folder and replace Emperor.exe with the same exe from patch. Hi there I know it's an oldie:) but I wrote a quick bash script to automate loading of cd-s from iso files. Emperor looks for the CD in the D: partition (keep that in mind when mounting in winecfg) Wine currently doesn't correctly handle volume labels. So when you specify a volume label for partition D: from within winecfg, it won't actually get set (check this by running 'wine cmd' switching to D: and running 'dir') The only reliable way I found to set a volume label (for wine) is to create in the mounted folder a file named.windows-label and containing the desired label.
So, instructions are as follows: 1. Copy the CD-1 contents to somewhere (say /Emperor1) 2. Execute in console: 'echo EMPEROR1 /Emperor1/.windows-label' - this will create a file named.windows label in the folder /Emperor1/ and the file will contain the text EMPEROR1.
Do the same when 'inserting' the other CD's. For future reference: EMPEROR1 - Install CD EMPEROR2 - Atreides CD EMPEROR3 - Harkonnen CD EMPEROR4 - Ordos CD. Hello, I can't get this to work for me in CX Games 8.0 (Wine 1.1.25) and I'm hoping that someone can help me get it going. Here is what I have done: 1) Install into a Win2000 bottle (I also tried WinXP), using defaults for all options except 'Register Online', which I deselected; 2) Click 'Return to Windows' when it completes. This froze the system (repeatedly), resizing the screen so that the Emperor window is in the top left with my desktop wallpaper in the background. It doesn't exit Emperor nor load the desktop properly (icons, taskbars etc.); 3) I moved to another virtual desktop and went into WineCfg Task Manager.
I ended the Emperor application and 'Visual C Runtime'. The Emperor window then closed; 4) Ran a 'Reboot' for the bottle; 5) Double-clicked the icon on the desktop. The screen refreshed to different resolutions before freezing black.
The system was frozen hard (Ctrl + Alt + Backspace didn't do anything), so I had to hard power off; 6) I selected to emulate an 800x600 virtual desktop in the settings for the bottle; 7) Double-clicked the icon and had another hard freeze; 8) I patched Emperor to version 1.09 by running the patch from; 9) I tried running again and the system froze as before; and 10) I tried to run with the -C option by choosing 'Run a Windows Command', selecting both the 'Emperor' and 'Game' executables and adding a '-C' to the command. This didn't seem to do anything.
Any help that anyone can give would be appreciated. I am pretty sure that I got a lot further than this when I tried with previous versions (though I can't remember the version and it could have been Wine), so would be keen to hear whether others have more luck. Hello, That is a fair comment. I thought that they used an unmodified Wine underneath, but it seems that they fork from Wine for each release. I think my issues are caused by the -intel xorg driver, rather than Wine.
I tried this in Wine 1.1.30 on Jaunty and had the same result. Trying it in a non-updated Ubuntu Karmic Beta with 1.1.30 seemed to work, but at an unplayable pace (several minutes to deploy an MCV) - my graphics benchmarking also gave very low (7fps) results at this stage, so I don't think it was Wine's fault. After updating to the latest -intel drivers (which improve benchmarking performance a lot), I am back to having the system freeze. Is there any way that I can log the X/OpenGL commands that Wine is sending (as it does them) so that I can report a bug about the freeze? Thanks for your help, Aaron. I'm running Emperor 1.09 using wine 1.1.9 and 8.10 ubuntu on a thinkpad t61 with a nvidia quadro 140M card.
The game seems to run smooth and flawlessly, until framerate suddenly drops drastically and the game lags horribly, Then after a like 20 seconds, the lagging disappears and everything is fine again. This repeats itself more or less often, i think like every minute or so, but not in a straight pattern. Iv tried tweaking graphics settings, disabling sound, even running the game using a clean boot with out starting gdm (gnome desktop manager), but no matter what its always the same problem. Anyone experienced something like that?
Any ideas on the cause of this? Emperor is really the only game i have been running using wine, so im not really sure if this problem would exist in other games too. I will try to investigate that.
I have Nvidia NV43 GeForce 6600 card and the latest Nvidia drivers (173.14.12). I have also disabled composite extensions and updated Emperor to the latest 1.09 patch. This game is working well for me (though some effects are not working like fire from smokestacks.) The only problem I have is with the game logo videos when the game is first started. There are two videos (one for EA and the other for Westwood) that display before either the game movies or the menu.
Under normal circumstances these take between 5 and 10 seconds to display. Under wine they don't actually display but you sporadically hear the sounds of them. They take between 3 and 5 minutes to pass. They cannot be skipped so you have to wait for them before getting to the menu.
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Has anyone found a solution to this?
Upgrade your GPU drivers. It helped me:) Okay, things start to get interesting so please clear up a few things for me: - Is the option for 1080p visible in the graphics options menu for you guys?
- What are your PC specs? Also please post a screenshot of the game running correctly in a 16:9 aspect ratio.
My drivers are pretty much up to date and the game was always like this for me so the problem should be something else if Emperor actually supports widescreen. My specs: i7 2600 3.0 ghz 8 gb DDR3 RAM Nvidia GTX 560 1G Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. Luminar's suggestion is also good. I still find it strange that your image is cropped on top and bottom. Did you install software regarding your monitor?
Or do you simply have one attached to your computer? I had to install mine. But all my programs automatically where adjusted. And some games (like WC3) got the wide screen resolution options.
What OS are you using? I see the stretching though so looks like the game actually does not support 16:9.:( Hope someone will make an HD patch someday. As a comparison, here's what I see in 4:3 and 16:9. Hahaha, you are right, it is stretching.
Strange that I only notice it now. But the game sucks any way in other area's. Mine is sloppy and fast at the same time. There is no fun in playing this game if it causes so much troubles.
But hey, you have EA games for this crap. That is why I never buy new stuff from them until it is €5 or less.
C&C3 was €5 a couple of years ago, that was the last game I ever bought. Yes, I remember the campaign of Emperor being totally disappointing and the unit balance seems to be designed towards the idea of stretching out the gameplay time (a defending army will always be stronger than the attack so you need a lot of units for attacking efficiently) but the game actually has a really good atmosphere.:) I mostly agree with you on EA's C&Cs: C&C3 was mediocre, its expansions was horrible but actually I was surprised by how good RA3 ended up being.