HowTo: HOI3 & Linux with WINE

**Guibod** · 04-04-2010 15:06

Originally Posted by larlin

For anyone that runs into the installer bug, a fix is implemented and should be in the next development release of wine wich if I understand correctly will be relased tomorrow. Here is the relevant bugreport:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22066

Closing bugs fixed in 1.1.42.

**makkk** · 05-04-2010 17:13

Works fine with patch 1.4 here.

System is no hardware monster:
athlon x2
some gig ram
nvidia 9500

Im on gentoo with wine 1.1.38.

Best thing is it interates with awesome wm where other games have problems.

Thanks for the guide.

**klas_a** · 14-05-2010 13:28

Hi!

I just want to share my experiences of a successful install of HoI3 on Linux.

My setup:

ATI Radeon HD4200 512Mb with proprietary drivers (built in on an ASUS M4A785T-M motherboard)
Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
Wine-1.1.28
1920x1200 display

I followed the HOWTO , although I used Wine-1.1.43 initially and installed in the default wine-directory. Everything worked except that the game changed resolution on my screen and much of the text in the game was invisible, making the game unplayable.

I fixed the resolution problem by setting a virtual desktop with my resolution in winecfg (Graphics tab) and I changed the resolution in ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Paradox Interactive/Hearts of Iron III/settings.txt.

I had to remove wine-1.1.43 using the packet manager and manually download 1.1.28 from http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/archive/index.html. Installation was then done with

Code:

sudo dpkg -i wine_1.1.28~winehq0~ubuntu~9.04-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb

As you can see this package was built for 9.04, but it worked in 9.10 too.

So, there's a serious regression in Wine somewhere between 1.1.28 and 1.1.43. Stick to 1.1.28 and HoI3 will run. The only thing I have noticed so far is a mouse pointer shadow problem when the game loads.

Sadly, HoI2, which seemed to work in Wine-1.1.43, crashes when I start a new scenario under Wine-1.1.28.

**krlc** · 23-05-2010 11:25

Any idea how can I play Random Scenario Mod, or any other mod?
When I launch hoi3.exe there isn't any mod to chose.

**Ashbringer** · 02-06-2010 03:19

Tested and working on Arch linux 64 with latest wine release, without problems.
Unfortunately I can report about 20-30% speed loss in 1936 scenario.
Hardware: Intel Q8300 (quad 2.5ghz) 6gb ddr2 800mhz, Nvidia GT 130 (9600GT).

**Zworf** · 06-06-2010 02:08

Semper Fi purchased from GamersGate, installation works like a charm.

Game runs fine, but so far I've had my game as Italy consistently crash at France surrender event (retried 2 times with same behavior).
No idea whether it is due to running the game with Wine or a game problem...

**yabo** · 26-06-2010 17:20

HOI3 + Semper Fi from GamersGate running fine on wine-1.2-rc5 with Archlinux 64 bit with nvidia drivers 256.35-1.

**Solokow** · 02-07-2010 10:21

out of the box? With wine tricks? What are your settings to play the game?

Edit: After installing Hoi3 + SF from GG on wine 1.2-rc5 I can confirme, that it is no longer a problem to play HoI3 with Linux.

I installed the game, after this I used winetricks (all of the d3dx9 files, vcrun2005, ddr=open, dsoundsbug).

**onkeljonas** · 23-07-2010 13:26

I'm having problems

System info: Ubuntu 10.04 AMD64, Radeon HD 58010 with proprietary drivers (version in Ubuntu repos)

I use PlayOnLinux to manage prefixes and wine versions. I use winetricks and PlayOnLinux to install the required files.
Game installs, launches fine, music plays. It always crashes right before displaying the menu (actually it freezes). Logs don't say anything except that it happens right after 'frontend.cpp' takes over, I assume this is the menu interface.
I've tried with different wine versions (1.1.32, 1.1.37, 1.1.40, 1.1.42, 1.2 and some earlier ones).

Any tips?

**UNDComrade** · 08-08-2010 01:10

Hello,

I followed the instructions, but it seemed my version of ubuntu mounted the disc as media/HEARTS OF IRON I (sic)

It didn't recognize this, so then I used the playonlinux script, and everything installed, and I made all the proper edits.

Now, my problem is that it won't update (I click on the patch, and it says that my game isn't installed), and it won't even start. When I click on the menu item in wine, it creates a new window on the bar of open tasks, but nothing pops up, and after a second it disappears. I tried putting in the terminal line in the OP, but it just gave me this:

yanis@yanis-desktop:~$ cd $HOME/.wine-hoi3/drive_c/Program\ Files/Paradox\ Interactive/Hearts\ of\ Iron\ III/
bash: cd: /home/yanis/.wine-hoi3/drive_c/Program Files/Paradox Interactive/Hearts of Iron III/: No such file or directory
yanis@yanis-desktop:~$ env WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine-hoi3 wine hoi3game.exewine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\hoi3game.exe"

I am not sure where to go from here.

**Zworf** · 08-08-2010 10:36

I have never used PlayOnLinux, but the command output just means your HoI3 is not installed in Wine environment under .wine-hoi3.

I use Ubuntu as well, same name for the game when in the drive, but never had any problems with it, so don't think it is related.

Your wine probably has a separate environment for HoI3 so to install the patch you need to run the patch in that environment.

For example:

Code:

env WINEPREFIX="/home/{your_user_name}/.wine-hoi3" wine /home/{your_user_name}/Downloads/SemperFi203.exe

You need to fill in your username and know in which Wine environment HoI3 is installed. In the example that is: "/home/{your_user_name}/.wine-hoi3"

Hope this helps you in the right direction

**UNDComrade** · 10-08-2010 06:52

Originally Posted by Zworf

I have never used PlayOnLinux, but the command output just means your HoI3 is not installed in Wine environment under .wine-hoi3.

I use Ubuntu as well, same name for the game when in the drive, but never had any problems with it, so don't think it is related.

Your wine probably has a separate environment for HoI3 so to install the patch you need to run the patch in that environment.

For example:

Code:

env WINEPREFIX="/home/{your_user_name}/.wine-hoi3" wine /home/{your_user_name}/Downloads/SemperFi203.exe

You need to fill in your username and know in which Wine environment HoI3 is installed. In the example that is: "/home/{your_user_name}/.wine-hoi3"

Hope this helps you in the right direction

It turned out that I made a complete newb mistake and forgot to put quotes around the "HEARTS OF IRON I" disk thing, and afterward, I forgot to capitalize it! Thank you so much for your help, after I figured out my mistake, I've reinstalled, installed the patch as you said, and all is well. As I recall, it was buggy on windows, but the patch has made it playable, and I am very impressed with how great it runs on linux.

**Onkl** · 10-09-2010 10:27

Hi

I use Mac OX 10.6, Wine 1.1.44-1, followed your instructions to the word to the best of my knowledge but unfortunately the game crashes on startup with the following output...

Can anybody please help me?

Code:

onkl:Hearts of Iron III sl$ env WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine-hoi3 wine hoi3game.exe
Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchctl terminated abnormally without any error message
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32e0a8,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32e178,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:d3d:swapchain_init Add OpenGL context recreation support to context_validate_onscreen_formats
fixme:cursor:CURSORICON_CreateIconFromANI Loading all frames for .ani cursors not implemented.
fixme:cursor:CURSORICON_CreateIconFromANI Loading all frames for .ani cursors not implemented.
fixme:cursor:CURSORICON_CreateIconFromANI Loading all frames for .ani cursors not implemented.
fixme:cursor:CURSORICON_CreateIconFromANI Loading all frames for .ani cursors not implemented.
fixme:cursor:CURSORICON_CreateIconFromANI Loading all frames for .ani cursors not implemented.
fixme:cursor:CURSORICON_CreateIconFromANI Loading all frames for .ani cursors not implemented.
err:ole:COMPOBJ_DllList_Add couldn't load in-process dll L"quartz.dll"
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {e436ebb3-524f-11ce-9f53-0020af0ba770} could be created for context 0x3
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000000 at address 0xda3fdd (thread 0009), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000000 in 32-bit code (0x00da3fdd).
Register dump:
 CS:0017 SS:001f DS:001f ES:001f FS:1007 GS:0037
 EIP:00da3fdd ESP:0032f52c EBP:01158f44 EFLAGS:00010287(  R- --  I S - -P-C)
 EAX:00000000 EBX:00000000 ECX:01983678 EDX:01936064
 ESI:0032f55c EDI:00000010
Stack dump:
0x0032f52c:  01fb0a58 0032f904 0032fa10 00000010
0x0032f53c:  01959d88 78645c2e 6973756d 70632e63
0x0032f54c:  7bc30070 0000000d 0000000f 01959d68
0x0032f55c:  01206d98 0115cf18 01fb53a8 00000000
0x0032f56c:  00000000 0032f568 0032f56c 00000000
0x0032f57c:  00000000 0032f578 0032f57c 00000000
0200: sel=1007 base=7ffc0000 limit=00000fff 32-bit rw-
Backtrace:
=>0 0x00da3fdd in hoi3game (+0x9a3fdd) (0x01158f44)
  1 0x00000000 (0x004199d4)
0x00da3fdd: movl	0x0(%eax),%edx
Modules:
Module	Address			Debug info	Name (160 modules)
ELF	       0- 6101000	Stabs           <wine-loader>
PE	  330000-  336000	Deferred        lua51
PE	  340000-  369000	Deferred        lua5.1
PE	  370000-  383000	Deferred        zlib1
PE	  400000- 1826000	Deferred        hoi3game
PE	10000000-1044a000	Deferred        d3dx9_40
PE	40000000-40146000	Deferred        libwine.1.dylib
ELF	4058a000-405a2000	Deferred        psapi<elf>
  \-PE	40590000-4059f000	\               psapi
ELF	405a2000-405ec000	Deferred        d3d9<elf>
  \-PE	405b0000-405d5000	\               d3d9
PE	405f4000-405fd000	Deferred        libsm.6.dylib
ELF	40700000-407a4000	Deferred        msvcrt<elf>
  \-PE	40710000-40762000	\               msvcrt
ELF	407a4000-407d9000	Deferred        ws2_32<elf>
  \-PE	407b0000-407cf000	\               ws2_32
ELF	4255a000-42608000	Deferred        gdi32<elf>
  \-PE	42560000-425d1000	\               gdi32
ELF	42608000-42682000	Deferred        advapi32<elf>
  \-PE	42610000-4265d000	\               advapi32
ELF	42682000-42725000	Deferred        rpcrt4<elf>
  \-PE	42690000-426ed000	\               rpcrt4
ELF	42725000-42890000	Deferred        user32<elf>
  \-PE	42730000-42829000	\               user32
ELF	42890000-42a05000	Deferred        wined3d<elf>
  \-PE	428a0000-429c8000	\               wined3d
ELF	42a05000-42a77000	Deferred        dsound<elf>
  \-PE	42a10000-42a4c000	\               dsound
ELF	42a77000-42b0e000	Deferred        winmm<elf>
  \-PE	42a80000-42afb000	\               winmm
ELF	42b0e000-42c86000	Deferred        ole32<elf>
  \-PE	42b10000-42c04000	\               ole32
ELF	42c86000-42d18000	Deferred        ddraw<elf>
  \-PE	42c90000-42cdf000	\               ddraw
ELF	42d18000-42d4b000	Deferred        dinput8<elf>
  \-PE	42d20000-42d32000	\               dinput8
ELF	42d4b000-42d9e000	Deferred        dinput<elf>
  \-PE	42d50000-42d7b000	\               dinput
PE	42d9e000-42e39000	Deferred        libfreetype.6.dylib
ELF	42ef1000-42fb8000	Deferred        winex11<elf>
  \-PE	42f00000-42f84000	\               winex11
PE	42fb8000-42fd0000	Deferred        libice.6.dylib
PE	42fd0000-42fe0000	Deferred        libxext.6.dylib
PE	42fe0000-430f6000	Deferred        libx11.6.dylib
PE	430f6000-430fd000	Deferred        libxdmcp.6.dylib
PE	430fd000-43102000	Deferred        libxau.6.dylib
ELF	43102000-4312a000	Deferred        imm32<elf>
  \-PE	43110000-43122000	\               imm32
PE	4312a000-4312e000	Deferred        libxinerama.1.dylib
PE	4312e000-43134000	Deferred        libxxf86vm.1.dylib
PE	43134000-4313e000	Deferred        libxrender.1.dylib
PE	4313e000-43147000	Deferred        libxrandr.2.dylib
PE	43147000-43152000	Deferred        libxcursor.1.dylib
PE	43152000-43159000	Deferred        libxfixes.3.dylib
PE	43187000-431b8000	Deferred        libgl.1.dylib
PE	431b8000-431cd000	Deferred        libxplugin.1.dylib
PE	53281000-532ac000	Deferred        glrendererfloat
PE	534a5000-5364e000	Deferred        glengine
PE	5364e000-540b2000	Deferred        geforcegldriver
PE	540b2000-544db000	Deferred        libclh.dylib
PE	72880000-72890000	Deferred        vcomp
PE	78130000-781cb000	Deferred        msvcr80
ELF	7b800000-7b97a000	Deferred        kernel32<elf>
  \-PE	7b810000-7b92e000	\               kernel32
ELF	7bc00000-7bce5000	Deferred        ntdll<elf>
  \-PE	7bc10000-7bc95000	\               ntdll
PE	90045000-90048000	Deferred        accelerate
PE	9009d000-90154000	Deferred        kerberos
PE	9009d000-90154000	Deferred        kerberos
PE	9009d000-90154000	Deferred        kerberos
PE	9014b000-90188000	Deferred        dictionaryservices
PE	9057d000-905d1000	Deferred        libtiff.dylib
PE	90676000-90783000	Deferred        cfnetwork
PE	918ac000-919f2000	Deferred        libfontparser.dylib
PE	9199c000-919d1000	Deferred        corevideo
PE	9199c000-919d1000	Deferred        corevideo
PE	91c62000-91c70000	Deferred        commonpanels
PE	91f4e000-91f99000	Deferred        ae
PE	91f82000-920a7000	Deferred        libxml2.2.dylib
PE	92084000-9211d000	Deferred        coretext
PE	92084000-9211d000	Deferred        coretext
PE	92420000-9254b000	Deferred        libglprogrammability.dylib
PE	925a6000-925af000	Deferred        libgif.dylib
PE	925ab000-925b7000	Deferred        iosurface
PE	925ab000-925b7000	Deferred        iosurface
PE	92753000-927d9000	Deferred        htmlrendering
PE	927bd000-927c5000	Deferred        libcorevmclient.dylib
PE	927bd000-927c5000	Deferred        libcorevmclient.dylib
PE	927c1000-92905000	Deferred        libcrypto.0.9.8.dylib
PE	92b3c000-92b8d000	Deferred        libglu.dylib
PE	92c21000-92c4d000	Deferred        openscripting
PE	92c3e000-92d25000	Deferred        colorsync
PE	92d40000-92df9000	Deferred        securityfoundation
PE	92d40000-92df9000	Deferred        securityfoundation
PE	934c0000-934c8000	Deferred        help
PE	934c4000-934ca000	Deferred        audiounit
PE	93e62000-93e8c000	Deferred        libresolv.9.dylib
PE	93ea3000-93f64000	Deferred        libobjc.a.dylib
PE	94160000-943d2000	Deferred        corefoundation
PE	944ef000-945cb000	Deferred        launchservices
PE	9458d000-945e7000	Deferred        systemconfiguration
PE	946c9000-946cc000	Deferred        veclib
PE	94712000-94729000	Deferred        libsasl2.2.dylib
PE	94723000-947ea000	Deferred        libsqlite3.dylib
PE	947e5000-947ee000	Deferred        libgfxshared.dylib
PE	947ea000-94853000	Deferred        passwordserver
PE	948b5000-948c4000	Deferred        print
PE	948bd000-948d3000	Deferred        opengl
PE	948bd000-948d3000	Deferred        opengl
PE	9498e000-949ad000	Deferred        multitouchsupport
PE	9498e000-949ad000	Deferred        multitouchsupport
PE	949a1000-94a1c000	Deferred        hiservices
PE	949f6000-94a1f000	Deferred        cfopendirectory
PE	949f6000-94a1f000	Deferred        cfopendirectory
PE	94a54000-94a59000	Deferred        trustevaluationagent
PE	94a54000-94a59000	Deferred        trustevaluationagent
PE	94b1f000-94b32000	Deferred        libz.1.dylib
PE	94b3c000-94c62000	Deferred        desktopservicespriv
PE	94b3c000-94c62000	Deferred        desktopservicespriv
PE	94c19000-94dab000	Deferred        audiotoolbox
PE	94e3b000-94e55000	Deferred        libgl.dylib
PE	94e7c000-94e8f000	Deferred        speechrecognition
PE	94ee0000-9549b000	Deferred        liblapack.dylib
PE	956f7000-95b5b000	Deferred        hitoolbox
PE	95a5a000-95b0e000	Deferred        searchkit
PE	95adb000-95ae1000	Deferred        libradiance.dylib
PE	95be1000-95c4c000	Deferred        metadata
PE	95e32000-95f07000	Deferred        qd
PE	95f8c000-96039000	Deferred        coreaudio
PE	96076000-96094000	Deferred        langanalysis
PE	9609b000-963da000	Deferred        security
PE	96344000-96389000	Deferred        libcups.2.dylib
PE	965a9000-965ac000	Deferred        carbon
PE	97133000-979ea000	Deferred        coregraphics
PE	97a5c000-97a62000	Deferred        libmathcommon.a.dylib
PE	97a67000-97a7d000	Deferred        netfs
PE	97a67000-97a7d000	Deferred        netfs
PE	97e00000-97e33000	Deferred        libxslt.1.dylib
PE	97e29000-97e55000	Deferred        directoryservice
PE	98053000-9807e000	Deferred        imagecapture
PE	980a4000-980f7000	Deferred        libauto.dylib
PE	980eb000-9810d000	Deferred        libpng.dylib
PE	98107000-9855f000	Deferred        libblas.dylib
PE	9851e000-98548000	Deferred        opencl
PE	9851e000-98548000	Deferred        opencl
PE	98c5c000-98d1e000	Deferred        ats
PE	98d38000-98d71000	Deferred        libglimage.dylib
PE	98d82000-98f96000	Deferred        imageio
PE	98f3d000-98f88000	Deferred        libvdsp.dylib
PE	98f80000-993b7000	Deferred        quartzcore
PE	98f80000-993b7000	Deferred        quartzcore
PE	992f6000-9935d000	Deferred        familycontrols
PE	992f6000-9935d000	Deferred        familycontrols
PE	993b8000-993c5000	Deferred        opendirectory
PE	993b8000-993c5000	Deferred        opendirectory
PE	993b8000-993c5000	Deferred        opendirectory
PE	9941b000-9947e000	Deferred        coreui
PE	9958d000-995aa000	Deferred        libbsm.0.dylib
PE	99674000-99688000	Deferred        libcsync.a.dylib
PE	996bc000-99a3b000	Deferred        foundation
Threads:
process  tid      prio (all id:s are in hex)
00000008 (D) C:\Program Files\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron III\hoi3game.exe
	00000009    0 <==
0000000e services.exe
	00000016    0
	00000015    0
	00000014    0
	00000010    0
	0000000f    0
00000011 winedevice.exe
	00000019    0
	00000017    0
	00000013    0
	00000012    0
0000001a explorer.exe
	0000001b    0
Backtrace:
=>0 0x00da3fdd in hoi3game (+0x9a3fdd) (0x01158f44)
  1 0x00000000 (0x004199d4)

**jju_57** · 10-09-2010 15:48

ONKL, first try to isolate the potential issue. Does this work for other games and only HOI not working? If it fails when trying to lay other games using the same method then it's an OS/computer issue.

**mitchum** · 05-12-2010 01:00

Hi

I have just upgraded from fedora 13 to fedora 14, and now Hoi3 is not working. Was working fine before the upgrade.
I have this error just after starting or loading a game probably related to a sound problem.

Sound is working fine in other applications and y have the music start

fixme:dsound

SOUND_MixerVol There is no support for 32 bpp
fixme:dsound

SOUND_MixerVol There is no support for 32 bpp
err:gstreamer

ush_data Sending returned: -2
fixme:gstreamer:GST_QueryInterface No interface for {f90a6130-b658-11d2-ae49-0000f8754b99}!
fixme:gstreamer:GST_QueryInterface No interface for {8e1c39a1-de53-11cf-aa63-0080c744528d}!
fixme:gstreamer:GST_QueryInterface No interface for {8e1c39a1-de53-11cf-aa63-0080c744528d}!
fixme:gstreamer:GST_QueryInterface No interface for {f90a6130-b658-11d2-ae49-0000f8754b99}!

Any tips?
Thanks

**Gaute65** · 08-12-2010 00:30

Have you set MaxShadowSize = 0?

**mitchum** · 10-12-2010 09:32

Yes, i have set up all the elments in the first post. Everything was working before my upgrade. It's a sound problemn because if set up the options with no sound, evrything is working. May be it's a regression in, the last wine or pulseaudio package, i don't know.

**hal2000** · 10-12-2010 11:58

I had problems with stuttering sound or sometimes no sound at all, before I changed Hardware acceleration to Emulation in winecfg. Don't know if its related to your problem, but it might be worth a try.

**Kallocain** · 10-12-2010 17:15

This is a great guide imho. Just posting here to let you know I've posted it in the guides section on the frontpage: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/content.php
I hope that's ok?

**Gaute65** · 11-12-2010 12:03

Originally Posted by mitchum

Yes, i have set up all the elments in the first post. Everything was working before my upgrade. It's a sound problemn because if set up the options with no sound, evrything is working. May be it's a regression in, the last wine or pulseaudio package, i don't know.

Use the stable version( 1.2.2)

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