Comment by int_19h
11 hours ago
Age of Wonders 1 used to work. That patch that you need to get it running on Win10+ was originally made for Wine: https://aow.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forums/display.cgi?actio...
Is that not sufficient these days? I might take another look; this is one of those games that I intend to keep running one way or another until I die.
Aight so when using Wine, AoW1 just instantly fails silently upon launch, no error message to see. When using proton it technically works - clicking randomly I launched the tutorial, judging by the sounds - but the screen is black all the time and shutting down alt-f4 it throws an error:
Exception EWin32Error in module VCL30.dpl at 00010E4F
Win32 Error. Code 1400. Invalid window handle.
It isn't I'm afraid. I'll see if I get any crash log or report that could help later in the evening.