gooberking: Tried all that but not all together. With DirectDraw=0 it just crashed. I wasn't sure which section to put it under. I didn't have any sound issues.
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tried DirectDraw=1
ds3d=0
and that got me a hair's width farther. Could move like once and then crash.
pentolino: I have it running on WineSkins on mac os x: I had to configure like this:
ds3d=0
eax=0
DirectDraw=0
DisableOpeningMovie=1
otherwise I did not see the menu items (it all seemed to work but I couldn't see anything); I played about 30 turns and it never crashed
Great!
I recently rebuilt the wine install I was using to the new 1.4 and clicked the icon to see what would happen. I haven't played enough say for sure, but it seemed to be working better. I made it several turns in without issues, which I never accomplished before. I even got to quit the game by choice. Look ma! No crashes!
I won't say its working until I get a chance to put a couple of hours into it (which I don't see happening right away) but it looked quite positive and it would be interesting to hear if the new version does anyone else some good.