Figured it out. I have totally overlooked starting the game in windowed mode for whatever reason. Wracked my brains for hours looking for a workaround and turns out the .exe starts just fine in any resolution as long as the game client is in windowed mode. Once I established that it launched, I made my virtual desktop match my native resolution and simply used alt-enter once logged in and bam I got a complete full screen of EQ without any of it being taken up by the linux desktop. Made me very happy indeed
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Now the only issue is starting the .exe again after you've finished playing, as it will start in full screen mode. You
could simply toggle the game back to windowed mode every time before you logged out but that would be extremely tedious and if you accidentally forget it would mean going back to the .ini file to edit it. However with a couple lines I was able to streamline that process using Vim. Here's how my startup looks like:
Code:
cd [PathToEQDirectoryHere]
vim eqclient.ini -c :%s/WindowedMode=FALSE/WindowedMode=TRUE/g -c :wq
taskset -c 0 wine eqgame - patchme
This will find the first string and replace it with the second string no matter where it is in the file, as well as save any changes and quit Vim. There's no manual editing required. That's all there is to it!