Mount & Blade Older Versions

Thank you very much for this guide! I'm actually trying to play an older version, the version 0.903 which you can find here:

https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?threads/mount-blade-old-versions.30480/

My problem is that after installing it, I try to run it and nothing happens. I suspect that this has something to do with the required DLL's and libraries since the version is quite old. Can you please give it a try? Thank you in advance!

Wow! I was not expecting such a fast reply! Thank you for your effort.

It's very strange indeed. Maybe it has something to do with the Windows version in which wine is based. For example, I once got Windows 7 in my pc, and the version 0.903 run flawlessly. In Windows 8 I had to turn off the antivirus to run the game (I think that Avast Antivirus interpreted it as virus by being too old). After updating to Windows 10 I could no more run this version, even with Windows XP or Windows 7 compatibility on (the same happened with other people). By clicking on the desktop icon, a waiting cursor appeared which after some seconds disappeared, and nothing more happened. I found through the task manager that the process was pushed to the background processes tab when the waiting cursor disappeared. The same exact thing seems to occur in PlayOnLinux. I suspect that the tried wine versions are based on Windows 10. I tried old and new wine versions, although I should admit I haven't got enough experience to know how are they based and which one should be run for the case of old games. There are some other people which I found in the TaleWorlds forum that would like to play this version due to the nostalgia. The training arena that could be played in the demo was the only thing that I was interested in, and unfortunately it was totally changed in the new versions. Maybe this details could help you if you want to give it one more try. Even if they don't help I should thank you. You are doing an amazing work!

I tried the version just after 0.903, which is 0.955. It does work. I also tried an even newer version, the 1.011, which also works. However these versions are totally different from 0.903, and I would not play them. I tried a version older than 0.903, corresponding to 0.751 which is more similar to 0.903, but it didn't open after installation.

It seems that all versions newer than 0.903 do work on PlayOnLinux, but versions older than 0.955 don't work. I reached this same conclusion for the case of installations on Windows 10 (which I also have on my computer besides Ubuntu). It then seems to me, that the problem is intrinsic to the way that wine was built. It was probably based on Windows 10, not allowing this older versions to run on PlayOnLinux.

Thank you for your effort anyway!

Also, I don't think that the file is corrupted, since it worked when I had Windows 7 and Windows 8 on my pc, and the download web page didn't change since then.