Wine version 5.6 breaks the aLobby VPN (bug 48937).Wine versions 5.7 and 5.8 cause problems with the aLobby.

Wine versions between 5.6 and 5.18 cause mouse problems when starting the game (bug 49347).

Wine versions starting with 6.0-rc1 introduced major crash issues ('Structured Exception' / 'SE') into the game.

The Settlers 3 and the aLobby work without major issues only with the following Wine versions (as of ):īelow is a list of versions known to cause major problems: Must be wrong with your port-forwarding settings or the LAN-router. If entering an Internet-multiplayer game is not possible, then something More detailed instructions for your router model can be found here. The ports that need to be forwarded on your router for Internet-gaming are: Only in case you want to play over the Internet (so not via VPN or in a LAN environment): sudo apt-get install openvpn gksuĪdditionally: to play using the aLobby VPN outgoing connections from the S3.exe, S3_alobby.exe (and S3_multi.exe) on port 1900 UDP must be blocked - otherwise joining or hosting games may be impossible! For example you can use the 'Gufw' firewall UI to do that. You will also need either 'kdesudo' or 'gksu' package if your system does not support 'pkexec'. If you want to play using the aLobby VPN, you need to have the native (Linux/OSX) 'openvpn' package (the 'openvpn' binary needs to be in your PATH) installed. You need to configure Wine to ' Emulate a virtual desktop' for the alobby.exe, as otherwise it will not work properly. The current aLobby version works flawlessly under Wine after installing the following: winetricks -q corefonts vcrun2010 vcrun2013 vcrun2017 quartz The 'unofficial' replacement for online play is the ' aLobby'. To get multiplayer (LAN and/or Internet) working in general do: winetricks -q directplayĪs of the end of September, 2011, the BlueByte Settlers 3 Multiplayer Lobby is offline.

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