[Wine] Re: Linux Noob Trying to Run Civ 4

[dimesio]

Jonline wrote:
> Hi, After a devastating viral attack on in XP, I've moved to Ununtu- I love it. I also love Civilization 4, and I'm having a hard time getting it to run. 
> 
> 1.  I can't get the installers to run. If I run setup.exe, I am allowed to choose my install language whereupon I recieve this error:
> 


Could be this bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12387

The AppDB reports for version 3.17 have some tips on how to get it working: 
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=12753&iTestingId=27894


> 2. I have tried copying the installed folders from my Program Files/Firaxis Games/Civilization 4 directory into the .wine/Programs directory, but I get an XML parser error. 

The AppDB entry for version 3.13 has some tips for dealing with that (scroll down to Known Issues): 
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=9501

> 
> I have also tried to run it from my actual window's directory,

Don't do that.