Dungeons Keeper 2 on Ubuntu with Wine
When Microsoft announced Windows 7 I went to my favorite retailer and pre-ordered my copy of Ultimate. Of course the more versions of Windows we get the less older games we can play on them.
Dungeon Keeper 2 was always one of my personal favorites. Seeing my lovely girl playing it on Windows Vista made me want to play a game so I dug it out from a pile of old discs and installed it on Windows 7. It would not start. I tried compatibility modes, sacrificing a dog, and a third thing. It simply, positively would not start. So I thought “screw this, I am going to Linux.”
These are the steps I took to get Dungeon Keeper 2 1.7 working on Ubuntu 9.10 x64:
- Prepare Apt: In a terminal type
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
- Update Apt: In a terminal type
sudo apt-get update
- Update Wine: In a terminal type
sudo apt-get upgrade
(Note that this will upgrade everything. You can use System -> Administration -> Update Manager to upgrade only the related Wine packages.) - Fire up regedit and set the following keys: In a terminal type
wine regedit
HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Bullfrog Productions Ltd -> Dungeon Keeper II -> Configuration -> Video -> EngineID = 4
HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Bullfrog Productions Ltd – >Dungeon Keeper II -> Configuration -> Video -> ScreenHardware3D = 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Wine -> DirectInput -> MouseWarpOverride = “disable”If any of these keys do not exist create them. Running the game and using Alt-F4 to exit it will create most of– if not all of– these.
MouseWarpOverride
had to be created in my case and I set it as a string. - Run the game: In a terminal browse to the Dungeon Keeper 2 directory and type
wine DKII.exe
One might note that I never actually installed the game. I had it installed on Windows and I simply moved the files over to my EXT4 partition (running them off of my NTFS partition probably would have worked just as well). I also grabbed a no-CD crack so I would not need the disc (buy the game because it is damn well worth it). I have not yet gotten the mouse perfect but I am pretty happy with it right now. All the applications I had open at the time seemed to disappear but were still running. I do not know why this was and I currently have no idea where to look to fix it.
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Update 2011.04.22
As of Ubuntu 10.10 there is no need to add the Wine repositories (the Prepare Apt step).
2 thoughts on “Dungeons Keeper 2 on Ubuntu with Wine”
An “heir” to the DK games is currently being kickstarted
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/subterraneangames/war-for-the-overworld
According to the FAQ, “We will have Windows, Linux, and Mac support out of the box.”
Well worth checking out IMO, funding progress is solid but not spectacular so far, and I am sure they could use any pledges from Linux users who want a native version of such a game.
I’m not quite sure how to say this; you made it exreemtly easy for me!