Adding an icon for VooblyĬonfigure “Forgotten Empires” in PlayOnLinux. exe file in this virtual drive” and select the voobly installer. In PlayOnLinux, select “Age of Forgotten Empires” and select the “configure” button –> “Miscellaneous” tab. Installing voobly clientĭownload the voobly client from to a local disk. Other options include GameRanger and Steam (but that’s not the CD version). Voobly is a match-making service that some Age of Empires players use online. Installing the Voobly client will help fix problems. Select any options that apply to you.Īccept and close and finish up the process.Īge of Forgotten Empires should now run properly! If it still fails, do not worry. When it asks to retry because the files mismatch, just select “No.”
Go through the dialogs and let the application copy the files. On the main PlayOnLinux screen, select the Install button. Microsoft no longer hosts the Patch, but you can find it at the Age of Kings Heaven at. Use a setup file and use the Patch C file available on your local disk. If the patch installation fails or you skip it, it can be corrected later so do not worry about it. In PlayOnLinux, select the Install button. It will run through a process without needing any input.Ĭlose out of the PlayOnLinux Configuration window. Select “Directplay” and select the Install button. In the “PlayOnLinux Configuration” window, select that wine staging version: 1.9.23. On the General tab, beside the Wine version select the “+” button. Each time we install an expansion to the game, PlayOnLinux will copy the entire game “hard disk” directory (drive_c) and all the wine settings, so it is best to fix the issue at the start. PlayOnLinux uses wine to provide a windows-like environment to games, and the default current version of wine is not the best for Age of Empires 2. Select “The Age of Kings” on the main PlayOnLinux screen and select the “Configure” button. In the series of prompts, select “use the CD-ROM.” Select the games tab and “Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings.” In PlayOnLinux, click the Install button. In Korora that’s as easy as double-clicking the ISO to have the iso mount tool auto-mount it for you. Once that is done, use your package manager to install PlayOnLinux.įor Fedora, that’s yum or dnf or yum-extended in the gui. Technically that page will install the repository for your distribution. RequirementsĪge of Empires II: The Age of Kings CD or ISOĪge of Empires II: The Conquerors Expansion CD or ISO Installing AoFE on Linux Install PlayOnLinux This means that dnf/yum will be used instead of the probably more-familiar apt-get.
The version of Linux used in the example is Korora 25 with Cinnamon ( ), which is a Fedora-based distro.
This document shows how to install Age of Empires II: The Forgotten Empires in Linux.
Get the instructions in odt format here: Installing-AoFE-on-Linux.odt Playing AoFE on Linux Overview
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