'spells file is outdated' - Ubuntu on Dell D630

[dmorawski]

I'm trying to get p99 running on my Dell Latitude D630. This laptop is from circa 2007 and has integrated graphics, so I'm not entirely optimistic. But the problems I'm experiencing don't seem related to that..

I followed mgellan's guide for installing p99 on linux. Due to space limitations, I had to install EQ on a drive different than C:. I created a new drive (H: ) using winecfg, and made the appropriate Program Files/p99 folders. Then I installed EQ to that location, without issue.

I downloaded the most recent patch from project1999.com and deleted the problem zone files (arena, lava, nek). I downloaded the eqclient.ini file that mgellan provides and made some adjustments to the resolution.

I edited the EQ shortcut on my desktop as mgellan instructs, loaded the game, and crashed several times while the character screen was loading.

In an attempt to debug this, I made a script, again according to mgellan's instructions:

#!/bin/sh 
# if you don't have the script's cwd set, you get XML errors 
export WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine/ 
cd < where my EQ is located >

# Bind to one core of the processor and launch. 
# The client will spew a lot of errors, especially every time 
# you target a mob, hence the stdout/stderr redirect. 
# You probably want to leave off the 2>/dev/null until you're satisfied 
# everything is working. 
taskset -c 0 padsp wine eqgame.exe patchme #2>/dev/null #I commented this out to see what errors I was getting

Using this script, I am now able to load the character screen, but it says my spells file is out of date and I need get the patch from project1999.com

Thanks in advance!

Update: Because of case-sensitivity on Linux, DSETUP.DLL was not replaced by dsetup.dll in the patch. So after getting rid of the old .dll file, the error message went away.