http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2705
Summary: Civilization III Gold Edition fails to run [CVS 20050206] Product: Wine Version: CVS Platform: Other URL: http://appdb.winehq.com/appview.php?appId=426 OS/Version: other Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: wine-binary AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: bero@arklinux.org
If there's no specific config for Civilization3X.exe: [arklinux@localhost Civ3PTW]$ wine Civilization3X.exe fixme:vxd:VXD_Open Unknown/unsupported VxD L"ntice.vxd". Try setting Windows version to 'nt40' or 'win31'. fixme:vxd:VXD_Open Unknown/unsupported VxD L"sice.vxd". Try setting Windows version to 'nt40' or 'win31'. fixme:vxd:VXD_Open Unknown/unsupported VxD L"siwvid.vxd". Try setting Windows version to 'nt40' or 'win31'.
If "Windows" = "winxp" or "nt40" is added to \AppDefaults\Civilization3X.exe\Version, the errors are gone, but the game still fails to start up (simply exits immediately).
WINEDEBUG=warn+all wine Civilization3X.exe shows: warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L" --MPRMMGVA--.exe" not found in /etc/wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Atari-Infogrames/Civilization III Gold Edition/Civ3PTW warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L" --MPRMMGVA--.exe" not found in /etc/wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Atari-Infogrames/Civilization III Gold Edition/Civ3PTW warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L" --MPRMMGVA--.exe" not found in /etc/wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/system warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L" --MPRMMGVA--.exe" not found in /etc/wine/dosdevices/c:/windows warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L" --MPRMMGVA--.exe" not found in /etc/wine/dosdevices/c:/windows warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L" --MPRMMGVA--.exe" not found in /etc/wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/system warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L" --MPRMMGVA--.exe" not found in /etc/wine/dosdevices/e: warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L" --MPRMMGVA--.exe" not found in /etc/wine/dosdevices/e:/test warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L" --MPRMMGVA--.exe" not found in /etc/wine/dosdevices/f: warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L" --MPRMMGVA--.exe" not found in /etc/wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/system warn:ntdll:NtCreateFile L"\??\C:\windows\system\ --MPRMMGVA--.exe" not found (c0000034) warn:file:CreateFileW Unable to create file L"c:\windows\system\ --MPRMMGVA--.exe" (status c0000034)
Apparently this worked once (appdb says so), or it works if you install some Windoze DLLs (I'm running plain wine with no M$ stuff).