[SOLVED] Age of Empires, multiplayer "error"

I successfully installed Age of Empires Rise of Rome on Linux Mint 22.1.

The game runs fine and all in single player mode.

However when I try to run it in multiplayer mode I get this error:

Is there a way to “fix” this? (it works just fine in Windows).

try this:
install “directplay” with winetricks

Thanks a lot. That fixed my problem.