motub wrote: > > yoman82 wrote: > > The Appdb is unupdated for the 1.2 RC2. > > That's true (although it is now updated for RC1, unfortunately not in an encouraging way), but the existing entry explicitly says > > > If you have any problems with playing Rome, you should try this: > > > > Use the lowest graphic settings, because one of them crashes the game > > Type wine regedit in a terminal. Then go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Software / Wine / Direct3D or create it if it doesn't exist. Now you have to add two new keys.DirectDrawRenderer with the string value opengl and VideoMemorySize with the string value of you graphic memory size, for example 512 or 256. > > Since this suggestion relates to Direct X's registry entry (which doesn't exist by default), and Direct X is where your issue lies, it's worth a try in the event that it helps. since it's easy enough to do. > > > yoman82 wrote: > > No, how would I go about setting up this override? > > My application says some DLL or font is missing. What do I do? (http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-bb6a7a98ea5016383c4f81717063463e5217c3bf) (i.e., "Read the Wine F.A.Q.). > > > yoman82 wrote: > > And, for the clean prefix, I'd have to re-download RTW, which took over three days last time on my 54k connection. Is there any way to avoid this? > > Sorry, don't know (not a Steam user), but you might want to consider uninstalling Wine and either 1. reinstalling the current version (since it seems to have misinstalled, given that the DX dlls have been steadily improving, but for you they're not found, which is ... odd, to say the least), or 2. reinstall a previous version known to work with the game. > > Hope this helps. Thanks a lot for the help. I'll tell you if I makek any progress.
