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What worksWestwood Logo loads at startup. Game then crashesWhat does notMain menu for Game fails to load, game crashes after initial westwood logo. Game would not install in wine, had to install using cedega. Actual testing was done in winehq version 0.9.6.

How to run the gameYou need to run the game with the -C command line switch, like 'wine emperor.exe -C'.Problems installing from CD?Ok. This is howto for people who can't install Emperor directly form CD.1) First of all visit website Dune2k.com and download Install patch for Emperor.2) Coppy your Setup folder from the cd. Replace the Setup.exe with exe from the patch.3) Run Setup.exe through terminal. It should be displaying: enter the cd to the drive.4) Don't close message from your install. Run another terminal and enter wincfg.

When you are in it, click on 'Drives' button and create drive with D letter, set it as CD-ROM. Set path to this drive as /media/Emperor1/ (or whatever path you have to your CD-ROM). And apply changes. Don't close winecfg!5) Switch to the installation and click ok on the 'Insert cd' message. It should disappear and installation should began.6) When you are going to play, enter the Emperor's folder and replace Emperor.exe with the same exe from patch.Have fun;. Hi there I know it's an oldie:) but I wrote a quick bash script to automate loading of cd-s from iso files. Emperor looks for the CD in the D: partition (keep that in mind when mounting in winecfg)Wine currently doesn't correctly handle volume labels.

So when you specify a volume label for partition D: from within winecfg, it won't actually get set (check this by running 'wine cmd' switching to D: and running 'dir')The only reliable way I found to set a volume label (for wine) is to create in the mounted folder a file named.windows-label and containing the desired label.So, instructions are as follows:1. Copy the CD-1 contents to somewhere (say /Emperor1)2. Execute in console: 'echo EMPEROR1 /Emperor1/.windows-label' - this will create a file named.windows label in the folder /Emperor1/ and the file will contain the text EMPEROR1.3. Do the same when 'inserting' the other CD's.For future reference:EMPEROR1 - Install CDEMPEROR2 - Atreides CDEMPEROR3 - Harkonnen CDEMPEROR4 - Ordos CD. Hello,I can't get this to work for me in CX Games 8.0 (Wine 1.1.25) and I'm hoping that someone can help me get it going.Here is what I have done:1) Install into a Win2000 bottle (I also tried WinXP), using defaults for all options except 'Register Online', which I deselected;2) Click 'Return to Windows' when it completes. This froze the system (repeatedly), resizing the screen so that the Emperor window is in the top left with my desktop wallpaper in the background. It doesn't exit Emperor nor load the desktop properly (icons, taskbars etc.);3) I moved to another virtual desktop and went into WineCfg Task Manager.

I ended the Emperor application and 'Visual C Runtime'. The Emperor window then closed;4) Ran a 'Reboot' for the bottle;5) Double-clicked the icon on the desktop. The screen refreshed to different resolutions before freezing black. The system was frozen hard (Ctrl + Alt + Backspace didn't do anything), so I had to hard power off;6) I selected to emulate an 800x600 virtual desktop in the settings for the bottle;7) Double-clicked the icon and had another hard freeze;8) I patched Emperor to version 1.09 by running the patch from;9) I tried running again and the system froze as before; and10) I tried to run with the -C option by choosing 'Run a Windows Command', selecting both the 'Emperor' and 'Game' executables and adding a '-C' to the command. This didn't seem to do anything.Any help that anyone can give would be appreciated.I am pretty sure that I got a lot further than this when I tried with previous versions (though I can't remember the version and it could have been Wine), so would be keen to hear whether others have more luck. Hello,That is a fair comment. I thought that they used an unmodified Wine underneath, but it seems that they fork from Wine for each release.

I think my issues are caused by the -intel xorg driver, rather than Wine.I tried this in Wine 1.1.30 on Jaunty and had the same result. Trying it in a non-updated Ubuntu Karmic Beta with 1.1.30 seemed to work, but at an unplayable pace (several minutes to deploy an MCV) - my graphics benchmarking also gave very low (7fps) results at this stage, so I don't think it was Wine's fault.

After updating to the latest -intel drivers (which improve benchmarking performance a lot), I am back to having the system freeze.Is there any way that I can log the X/OpenGL commands that Wine is sending (as it does them) so that I can report a bug about the freeze?Thanks for your help,Aaron. Hi everyone.I'm running Emperor 1.09 using wine 1.1.9 and 8.10 ubuntu on a thinkpad t61 with a nvidia quadro 140M card.The game seems to run smooth and flawlessly, until framerate suddenly drops drastically and the game lags horribly, Then after a like 20 seconds, the lagging disappears and everything is fine again.

This repeats itself more or less often, i think like every minute or so, but not in a straight pattern.Iv tried tweaking graphics settings, disabling sound, even running the game using a clean boot with out starting gdm (gnome desktop manager), but no matter what its always the same problem.Anyone experienced something like that? Any ideas on the cause of this?Emperor is really the only game i have been running using wine, so im not really sure if this problem would exist in other games too. I will try to investigate that. Hi!I have Nvidia NV43 GeForce 6600 card and the latest Nvidia drivers (173.14.12). I have also disabled composite extensions and updated Emperor to the latest 1.09 patch. This game is working well for me (though some effects are not working like fire from smokestacks.) The only problem I have is with the game logo videos when the game is first started. There are two videos (one for EA and the other for Westwood) that display before either the game movies or the menu.

Under normal circumstances these take between 5 and 10 seconds to display. Under wine they don't actually display but you sporadically hear the sounds of them. They take between 3 and 5 minutes to pass.

They cannot be skipped so you have to wait for them before getting to the menu. Has anyone found a solution to this?

Haven't We Met Before?Although it's odd to start a review with a history lesson, such an approach is entirely appropriate when you're dealing with a new game as archaic as Emperor: Battle for Dune. For while the title in question is just hitting stores today, the gameplay concepts are as old as dirt. Or at least as old as the dust blanketing that closet-consigned P75 you once used to play Command & Conquer. Those were the days, my friend. We thought they'd never end.But they have. And someone should tell the good people at Westwood.

While the rest of the gaming world has moved on to bigger and better things, this formerly innovative company has simply been repeating the real-time strategy past. Their latest looks all the way back to 1992's Dune 2 (often cited as the first RTS ever developed) for its inspiration.

All of the basic concepts that fueled both that classic and the subsequent Command & Conquer series have been recycled again and again. Emperor adds a true 3D engine to the mix for the first time, but aside from that and a few other noteworthy and not-so-noteworthy tweaks, this is the same game as Dune 2, Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Tiberian Sun, Dune 2000, and last autumn's Red Alert 2.

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Swap the cornball commies and Kari 'Sliders' Wuhrer's patented breasts for Sandworms and Michael 'Worf' Dorn's patented glower and you'd be hard pressed to find any significant differences between the last two Westwood efforts.Emperor certainly looks the part. The game comes dressed up in all the expected full-motion video accoutrements that Westwood has been using since it was still acceptable to do so, in the middle 1990s.

Like Red Alert, the plot is detailed in lengthy, gaudy film clips featuring a number of professional actors. Some are recognizable stars, such as the aforementioned Michael Dorn of Star Trek fame, while others are nobodies, but they all share the same uncanny ability to chew the scenery. Almost every scene has a few unintentionally hilarious moments, due to hammy acting, poor scripting, or a combination of the two. Everything is rendered even more ludicrous by the way that the actors address the gamer directly, breaking the fourth wall during mission briefings to inform the player that, yes, all is riding on what he or she is about to do. This isn't any more effective here than it is in the Red Alert games. The video sequences are so unlike the actual game that you have to make a conscious effort and remind yourself that the two are supposed to be related.

Most of the time, however, you'll just sit back and gawk at how much better Michael Dorn looks without that rubber turtle on his head.Other visual aspects of the design take Emperor into the present, however. As noted above, this is the first Westwood game to feature a gameplay engine that works in all three dimensions. It may be a little behind the times in this regard - particularly considering that just about every other RTS developer hopped aboard the 3D bandwagon last summer (Activision with Dark Reign 2, Sierra with Ground Control, SSI with Earth 2150, etc.) - though the implementation here is quite good. Visual quality still isn't up to that on display in the likes of Dark Reign 2 and Ground Control. Units seem a little jagged in comparison to their cousins in those rival titles, and animation is also a touch stiffer. Another damaging factor when weighing the pros and cons of sheer beauty is that the camera here cannot be focused directly on an individual unit. Where you could go so far as to zoom in on the glutes of the curvaceous Psitech covert ops specialists in Dark Reign 2, here you're stuck at a distance where it's often difficult to tell who's who, at least where infantry units are concerned.Map art is also bland.

Terrain features are typically lifeless and dull. While the simple fact that most of the game takes place on the desert world of Arrakis explains this somewhat, there's still no excuse for the topography to be so uniformly blah. Each map is usually made up of narrow shelves of rock and hard-packed earth separated by seas of sand. Aside from the odd bit of abandoned wreckage, there isn't much to distinguish one area from another. This sameness remains a problem later in the campaigns, when the scene shifts to more interesting locales, such as the verdant world of Caladan and the frigid wasteland of Draconis IV.

About the only difference between these worlds and Arrakis is the predominant color of the turf. If Caladan weren't green, and Draconis IV white, you wouldn't know that you were no longer in the desert. Dynamic and IntriguingSome aspects of Emperor are more intriguing. The plot, set immediately after the events of Dune 2 and some 200 years before Frank Herbert's famous novel (disconcertingly called 'the movie' in the press docs, I might add), details the War of the Assassins fought between the three Great Houses of Atreides, Harkonnen, and Ordos. This conflict takes place on Arrakis, the only known home of the Spice Melange, the most powerful substance in the universe. The leader of the victorious party not only will take charge of Arrakis and the spice, but he will also become Emperor of the Known Universe.

So the stakes are extremely high.All three races feature lengthy playable campaigns. These of course differ in terms of plot, although there aren't as many differences between the races themselves. While the Atreides are noble warriors, the Harkonnens violent and cruel, and the Ordos rapacious aliens who use hideous biological technology, there is little to separate them tactically. Basic units have counterparts that are nearly identical in the ranks of their opponents. For example, where the Atreides boast Kindjai Infantry with pistols and rocket launchers, the Harkonnen have Troopers with missile launchers, and the Ordos field AA Troopers, also with missile launchers.This is reflected further up the ranks as well, though there are certain overall characteristics that can be taken advantage of, such as the strong Harkonnen armor and the Ordos' hit and run capabilities.

About the only truly different units in the game are those used by the rather creepy Tleilaxu, a smaller house that uses flesh vats to grow Contaminators that infect opposing forces and turn them into copies of themselves, and Leeches, that fire larvae at foes. All houses share the same buildings, with the exception of gun turrets that slightly differ (the Ordos turret launches poisonous gas, the Harkonnen model shoots flame, and the Atreides version features machine guns).Where Emperor truly stands apart from Westwood's earlier efforts is in the design of the single-player campaigns. Instead of fighting a series of must-win battles until the final showdown, here you wage war on a dynamic map. When the game begins, Arrakis is evenly divided into sectors controlled by the three houses. From there, you decide how to proceed, which sector to attack in order to best advance the war. At the same time, you'll be forced to defend your territory against enemy invasion.

This adds a much-needed jolt to the standard RTS style, though it's not quite as freeform as you might believe.For starters, your choices are generally quite limited. There are usually just two or three sectors controlled by each opposing house that can be attacked at a time (and at least two are typically off-limits due to severe storms). These often feature fairly similar enemy forces, so it's not as if these selections represent vastly different tactical plans. Also, there are certain elements of the story that seem to be set in stone, even the alliances with lesser houses and other independent groups. As an example of this, I was never able to form an alliance between the Atreides and the Tleilaxu, even though it was specifically noted in one of the cutscenes that the choice of ally would be left up to me.Even when you are given varied mission objectives, the route taken to victory is almost always the same.

Just like Red Alert, you always start off with a small group of forces and must immediately set up a base and start collecting resources (in this case, the Spice Melange) and constructing buildings and military units. Repetition is the watchword here, as you'll spend much of your time building the same structures over and over again. There are some episodes that break this trend, though they're few and far between. After leaving the campaign map, the gameplay here is very traditional and without much in the way of surprises. Sensing a TrendThere are a few worthy tactical elements, though.

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Ally yourself with the Fremen tribesmen and you'll be able to summon mighty Sandworms to crush the opposition. The value of high ground is emphasized more here than in perhaps any other RTS in recent memory. As bases must be established on the rock that towers over the sandy seas below, you have to take advantage of this by building in the right areas and fortifying that position with long-range units such as mortars and snipers. Unfortunately, this emphasizes the relatively poor AI granted to your computer opponents, who will often assault such solid encampments from the sand below rather than flanking you in an attempt to launch an attack from a level playing field. If you work quickly and fortify your structures properly, you can expect little serious challenge from the opposition while you build a massive offensive force.About the only obstacle to victory is the sub-par pathfinding. Your units will bump into one another and stop, wander into the range of enemy gun turrets, and so on.

Large-scale battles should be micro-managed for the best result, which of course gets a little annoying at times. And infantry units are so dumb that they'll often allow themselves to be crushed by oncoming vehicles that could easily have been avoided.

It's nice that they put direct firing orders ahead of self-preservation, but still.Additional gaming options might provide players with further entertainment value, but again, there really isn't anything here that hasn't been seen before. Skirmish mode features some interesting ideas involving alliances, Sandworm activity, prebuilt bases, and crates with goodies inside, though there isn't a map editor or a random map generator. That alone will limit the replay value. Multiplayer is handled through the dedicated Westwood Online service.

One helpful frill here is that you can go online to play a campaign cooperatively. It's good to see that, despite everything else, the designers realized the value of a cooperative mode.Good points aside, Emperor: Battle for Dune is a tired game based on a limited concept that was beaten to death in 1998.

Dynamic campaign and true 3D engine or not, the essentials of gameplay still come down to the very same basics that have dominated such titles for going on a decade now. Even though Westwood has thrown in everything but the kitchen sink to make this arguably the ultimate traditional RTS, it's still hard to contemplate playing the actual game without yawning.Review By GamesDomain External links. Dune 2019-10-05 2 pointsrespong to Arpeggi 'DUNE, I've tried your editing of the resources cfg file but I'm still being prompted'You need to mount the iso to a drive letter in precise order so CD1 is Disk 1 CD2 disk2so if you mount disk 1 iso onto Drive H: your entry in the resource file must beCD1H:MOVIES1H:Moviesrepeat for all the disks you mount matching each disk number to the CD number and the Movies numberthen run the game after the editI have written a script that automates it in powershell i am not sure this site allows scripts so will not paste it here. Dune 2019-09-13 -1 pointThis game originally had four CD's. In those days you swapped them in and out of your CD drive. So the game still expects this.But you can Mount all four ISO's of the 4 CD'sEdit the resource.cfg file to tell the game where thy are mounted.if you have mounted disk 1 to 4 in D: E: F: and G: drivesyou would change the file like thisresource.cfg text file found in the dune program folder' other stuff in the file 'CD1D:CD2E:CD3F:CD4G:save it and run the gameit will never ask for a disk mount any moreI have a powershell script i wrote that mounts the drives and edits the file and runs the game all at once. When the game finishes it unmounts them and quitsif anyone is interested i can paste the script in so you can try it.

Fedaygin 2019-05-13 -1 pointSo need to DL 'Any to Iso' software like (Madzenon) wrote above ^^? I have Win 7 x64. ISO Client DL is at 0.3/2.2gb and says 30mins left:/ I have 50mb/s DL connection so i guess Upload Bandwith at this site is boggled now:/ Sad cause Emperor: Battle for Dune hasn't come for sale into GOG yet. Or in Steam:/Kindly: Dune fan since early 90's when played Dune 1 & 2 with golden Amiga 600. Love Dune Movie, Mini Series, Books & games.PST: Happy to support, share the good word & hope that Funcom would release some news soon about their Dune Gaming project. Rumor is that they're developing open world Dune adventure.