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I just started playing Age of Empires II Definitive Edition on linux. It launches and runs singleplayer perfectly fine. But whenever I try to join an online game, I get a desynchronization issue that ends the game anywhere between a few seconds to a minute into the match.
I tried this solution and did everything as described in the post.
Except I first had to create the directories. /compatdata/ and everything below that did not exist on my computer. Extraction worked without errors, so I did not delete anything.
I tried several different versions of Proton: Proton-6.4-GE-1, Proton Experimental, Proton 6.3-3, Proton 5.13-6 and Proton 5.0-10 all launched and ran the game fine, but all of them also had the desync issue.
Proton-6.8-GE did not launch at all. The launch window comes up and crashes the whole desktop after a few seconds. The clock stops running and it's not possible to interact with any elements on the desktop or taskbar anymore. I was forced to terminate the process on every attempt.
I would be very grateful if anyone could direct me to a solution to play AoE II DE in multiplayer on linux. Or if I'm missing something in the fixes I already tried, please let me know.
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I think vc_redist can also be installed through winetricks/protontricks (you still have to know where your directories and files are).
Last edited by tuxintuxedo on 12 May 2021 at 2:23 pm UTC
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cd /media/TheHardDriveInQuestion/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/813780/pfx/drive_c/windows/system32/
wget "https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe"
cabextract vc_redist.x64.exe
cabextract a10
I ran Age of Empires on Proton Experimental and it worked! Played a whole game without desync, though I had to resign eventually because my team didn't coordinate too well.
Again, thanks a lot!
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I think I have a similar problem.
I usually use Ubuntu, but I wanted to test Linux Mint. With Ubuntu I had no problems running aoe2 de in multiplayer. Now with Linux Mint I get the out of sync error...
I tried the solution abouth but its not working for me.
This is what the console is telling me. Im not sure what that means behind
cabextract a10
user@y700:~$ cd /home/$USER/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/813780/pfx/drive_c/windows/system32/
user@y700:~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/813780/pfx/drive_c/windows/system32$ wget "https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe"
--2021-08-24 18:50:29-- https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe
Auflösen des Hostnamens aka.ms (aka.ms) … 23.32.88.234
Verbindungsaufbau zu aka.ms (aka.ms)|23.32.88.234|:443... verbunden.
HTTP-Anforderung gesendet, auf Antwort wird gewartet … 301 Moved Permanently
Platz: https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/7239cdc3-bd73-4f27-9943-22de059a6267/003063723B2131DA23F40E2063FB79867BAE275F7B5C099DBD1792E25845872B/VC_redist.x64.exe [folgend]
--2021-08-24 18:50:29-- https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/7239cdc3-bd73-4f27-9943-22de059a6267/003063723B2131DA23F40E2063FB79867BAE275F7B5C099DBD1792E25845872B/VC_redist.x64.exe
Auflösen des Hostnamens download.visualstudio.microsoft.com (download.visualstudio.microsoft.com) … 2606:2800:133:f17:19e8:2356:251b:2a9, 68.232.34.200
Verbindungsaufbau zu download.visualstudio.microsoft.com (download.visualstudio.microsoft.com)|2606:2800:133:f17:19e8:2356:251b:2a9|:443... verbunden.
HTTP-Anforderung gesendet, auf Antwort wird gewartet … 200 OK
Länge: 25167488 (24M) [application/octet-stream]
Wird in »vc_redist.x64.exe« gespeichert.
vc_redist.x64.exe 100%[=========================================================================================================================================>] 24,00M 1017KB/s in 25s
2021-08-24 18:50:54 (1003 KB/s) - »vc_redist.x64.exe« gespeichert [25167488/25167488]
user@y700:~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/813780/pfx/drive_c/windows/system32$ cabextract vc_redist.x64.exe
Extracting cabinet: vc_redist.x64.exe
extracting 0
extracting u0
extracting u1
extracting u2
extracting u3
extracting u4
extracting u5
extracting u6
extracting u7
extracting u8
extracting u9
extracting u10
extracting u11
extracting u12
extracting u13
extracting u14
extracting u15
extracting u16
extracting u17
extracting u18
extracting u19
extracting u20
extracting u21
extracting u22
extracting u23
extracting u24
extracting u25
extracting u26
extracting u27
extracting u28
extracting u29
extracting u30
extracting u31
extracting a0
extracting a1
extracting a2
extracting a3
extracting a4
extracting a5
extracting a6
extracting a7
extracting a8
extracting a9
extracting a10
extracting a11
extracting a12
extracting a13
All done, no errors.
user@y700:~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/813780/pfx/drive_c/windows/system32$ cabextract a10
a10: no valid cabinets found
All done, errors in processing 1 file(s)
user@y700:~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/813780/pfx/drive_c/windows/system32$
I also tried several different proton versions and all had the out of sync error.
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Are you sure you hit the right directory? It's a little confusing in the linked post from ProtonDB, just from the way it's phrased.
Im pretty sure i got the right directory. All folders already existed. And if I search the /$USER/ directory I only get 1 folder with the name compatdata.
This is a picture of the path I used.
Hello there. Just use that guide to resolve the problem. I have ckecked, it works.