Emperor: Battle for Dune Forum

Hello,

I can't get this to work for me in CX Games 8.0 and I'm hoping that someone (Steve?) 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 http://dune2k.com/Duniverse/Games/Emperor/Downloads/Patches ;
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.

Are you installing it from a CD? If so, you may need to use the Install Fix from http://dune2k.com/Downloads/9

If that doesn't solve the issue post your system specs, I got it to run pretty well (about a silver medal i guess) on my MBP

Thanks,

Yes, I am installing from a CD, but it seemed to install correctly, so my issue will not be fixed with the install fix.

I have since tested this on a similar laptop with a Radeon graphics card and it worked much better. It therefore seems that the issue I was experiencing is caused by the Intel graphics driver for the 855GM graphics card.

I will get to the bottom of the problems that I am experiencing with the Radeon laptop (very jerky cinematics and this error here) and then post an update.