[Wine] Total War (Rome and Medieval demo's) - crash on my setup

[pickles95]

I'm newish to Linux and new to WINE.

I've downloaded the Rome-Total War demo, and the Medieval-Total War demo (the first one, not Med-II).

They both appear to have installed OK, but both crash with an error message if I attempt to start them.

Other applications I've tried (Paint Shop Pro 4.12, Microsoft powerpoint viewer 2003, for examples) seem to work OK.


Total War error basically says:
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Program Error
The program <rome.exe> has encountered a serious problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

It then goes on to say this may be caused by the program or a deficiency in Wine and gives the database site and the bugs list URLs.
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The above appears before anything appears to have really started up, i.e. no splash screens or menus appear. Similar fault for Medieval but the file is <Medieval_TD.exe>.

The AppDB seems to imply the demo for Rome should be OK, but that Med may not be.


Question: Can anyone tell me if either of these demo's does or should run on WINE? Or is there a particular file/folder/option I need to create or alter in order to get them running?

Kernel - 2.6.26.8
Wine - wine-1.1.28
Running KDE 4.3.2

CPU - 800 Ath
Ram 768M
GPU - GF2/64M


I realize the H/W specs maybe a little near the lower end, but I think they meet the min requirements (Ram/GPU) and maybe just under for CPU - would this stop it running?


Thanks.