Rome Total War and Total War Barbarian Invasion on Linux with Wine

Written by Tom Wickline

Thursday, 29 November 2007 23:55

About Rome: Total War

Rome: Total War is the next generation in epic strategy gaming from the critically acclaimed and award winning Total War brand. The aim of the game is to conquer, rule and manipulate the Roman Empire with the ultimate goal of being declared as the "Imperator" of Rome. Set in a time when the mighty Roman Empire emerged to conquer the known world against powerful enemies, when gladiators fought to a bloody death in the Coliseum; when Spartacus defied the might of the empire; when Hannibal led his invincible army and his war elephants across the Alps to strike fear into the very heart of Rome itself; and when Julius Caesar finally smashed the Barbarian Gauls. This was a time of brutal confrontation between civilisation and barbarism, and of civil war as the ancient world's only superpower turned on itself.

About Rome: Total War - Barbarian Invasion

Rome: Total War - Barbarian Invasion is the expansion to the best-selling Rome: Total War. The original game covered the rise of the Roman Empire and the struggle to be the Emperor of the Roman World. In the tradition of earlier Total War expansions, Barbarian Invasion (BI) introduces a new campaign in a time when an almost-unstoppable threat has arisen.

Wine configuration

This is with a configuration directory after DirectX was installed and running in a 1024x768 virtual desktop.

$ winecfg

Once the .wine directory is built the configuration tool will start and you can set a virtual desktop in the graphics tab if you wish. This is a good time to also set your Audio driver in the Audio tab.

Installing Rome Total War and Total War Barbarian Invasion

This is the DEMO of Rome Total War and Total War Barbarian Invasion BTW...

tom@tuxonfire ~ $ cd /home/tom/rome/RomeTotalWarDemo.zip_FILES
tom@tuxonfire ~/rome/RomeTotalWarDemo.zip_FILES $ wine setup
fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"tom" (nil) 0x33be6c (nil) 0x33be70 0x33be64 - stub