
This doesn't happen with the Age of Kings just the conquerors - no matter what I do. ¹ I haven’t been able to confirm that this annoyance exists. One word of warning, though: Keeping cd on cd drive slows the game even more. Hacking AoEII executable to change the playing format from audiocd to raw cda tracks from game dir should be possible, though cumbersome, task. One should be able to rip the audiocd track from the cd and set it as a cd drive, so that AoEII would be able to play the music from that. Am I right that AoEII doesn’t have an option to install _backround music_ tracks to harddisk? While using the nocd crack, just keep your cd on cd drive and the game is able to play the music. With recent wine version(atleast with 1.1.20) you can play backround music with no problem too. If the game wont start (and wine hasn’t hang up(wineserver -k)), either remove dpwsockx.dll from your system32 folder or follow the steps for multi-player below.(you can play using aocsetup.exe from the cd, if you can’t afford to NoCD) This game requires a NoCD patch to run.
