FO 3.2.7 on Ubuntu 12.04

posted on June 25th, 2013, 3:25 pm

Has anybody gotten FO 3.2.7 running on Wine on Ubuntu 12.04? I remember earlier versions of FO worked fine on earlier versions of Ubuntu, but I'm having trouble with it this time. Eight or nine Fleet Ops.exe processes start running and my processor usage goes up to about 87% on both cores while nothing happens.

posted on June 25th, 2013, 3:33 pm

wine can't handle the (secondary) loader properly. However Fleet Operations can run without it*.
in the data directory:
- backup armada2.exe
- rename armada2.ldl to armada2.exe
- run armada2.exe

*This exe loader is used to enable Fleet Operations to use 3GB of ram instead of 2GB. This only might get an issue in very long games.

posted on June 25th, 2013, 3:51 pm

Closer, now I get a notice about NetworkManager.dll not loading and the program crashes before the menu.

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err:module:attach_process_dlls "NetworkManager.dll" failed to initialize, aborting