I ended the Emperor application and 'Visual C Runtime'. 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. 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.
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. Do the same when 'inserting' the other CD's.For future reference:EMPEROR1 - Install CDEMPEROR2 - Atreides CDEMPEROR3 - Harkonnen CDEMPEROR4 - Ordos CD. 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 EMPEROR1.3. Copy the CD-1 contents to somewhere (say /Emperor1)2. 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. 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. Hi there I know it's an oldie:) but I wrote a quick bash script to automate loading of cd-s from iso files. 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.Have fun. Don't close winecfg!5) Switch to the installation and click ok on the 'Insert cd' message. Set path to this drive as /media/Emperor1/ (or whatever path you have to your CD-ROM). When you are in it, click on 'Drives' button and create drive with D letter, set it as CD-ROM. It should be displaying: enter the cd to the drive.4) Don't close message from your install.
Replace the Setup.exe with exe from the patch.3) Run Setup.exe through terminal.
This is howto for people who can't install Emperor directly form CD.1) First of all visit website and download Install patch for Emperor.2) Coppy your Setup folder from the cd.
How to run the gameYou need to run the game with the -C command line switch, like 'wine emperor.exe -C'.Problems installing from CD?Ok. Actual testing was done in winehq version 0.9.6.
Game would not install in wine, had to install using cedega. Game then crashesWhat does notMain menu for Game fails to load, game crashes after initial westwood logo. What worksWestwood Logo loads at startup.