Install and run Everquest Project1999 on linux (Ubuntu/Deb.) with only WINE installed

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Install EverQuest Project1999 on Linux (Ubuntu/Deb.) and play it with only WINE (Windows Is Not an EMULATOR) installed.

1. Open terminal and type: sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
Hit enter
2. Type in terminal: sudo apt update
Hit enter
3. Type in terminal: sudo apt install wine
Hit enter (type y and hit enter when asked)
(you don't need to install wine32 anymore. It'll work fine with x86 version (64bit).)
4. Mount all 5 EQ disks from .iso files. Right click on each .iso file and mount.
5. Type in terminal: wine /media/YOU TYPE YOUR USER NAME HERE FROM COMPUTER LOGIN PROFILE/EQ_TITANIUM.1
(Or copy path. Remember to start line in terminal with: wine -before paste if you copy path. Make sure your mounted disk is named: EQ_TITANIUM.1 . If not change it to the right name (capital
letter sensitive). You can find the name by hovering cursor over mounted disk icon to see the right name)
Hit enter
6. Wine will open. Double click setup.exe in wine. Install EQ. Your mounted disks are usually not mounted in order, so you need to find the right ones by
trying. You can see mounted disks has a little triangle pointing downwards. With installation mine goes: D-H-E-G-I-D.
7. Download package with files from https://www.project1999.com/ - Project 1999 Patch Files (V..). You find it on top of front page.
8. Right click on Project 1999 Patch Files (V..) and extract and open extracted folder.
(remember to hit Ctrl+H to show hidden files. Your path to EverQuest folder:
/home/COMPUTER LOGIN PROFILE NAME/.wine/drive_c/program files (x86)/sony/everquest)
9. Copy all patch files to EverQuest folder. Merge and replace all.
10. Find the two dsetup.dll files in EverQuest folder and change DSETUP.dll to DSETUP2.dll. Change dsetup.dll to DSETUP.dll (capital letters). Change
DSETUP2.dll to dsetup.dll. You swap "names". Linux is capital letter sensitive. You will receive a message of no spells on character selection in EQ if you don't
do it.
11. Find and add underscore to file: Launch Titanium.bat (it has to look like this: Launch_Titanium.bat). If not it wont find and start the file.
12. Close terminal and start it again if it is running errors. Type in terminal: wine cmd
Hit enter
13. Copy path or type in terminal: cd /home/YOU TYPE YOUR USER NAME HERE FROM COMPUTER LOGIN PROFILE/.wine/drive_c/program files (x86)/sony/everquest
Hit enter (wine cmd - is not capital letter sensitive)
14. Change desktop resolution to 800x600 before your first startup of EQ. If not you will often witness a super small EQ window.
15. Type in terminal: start launch_titanium.bat
Hit enter - EverQuest will start after a little while. Log in to the game, camp your character and exit game. Run it again and login. You now have all
video resolution options available under video modes. At first you only have 3 options. Change desktop resolution and game resolution to your desired
mode.
16. Start the game again: Open terminal and type: wine cmd, hit enter,
type: cd /home/YOU TYPE YOUR USER NAME HERE FROM COMPUTER LOGIN PROFILE/.wine/drive_c/program files (x86)/sony/everquest
, hit enter, type: start launch_titanium.bat, hit enter, game starts after a little while.

Notes:
If your EQ window is super small after startup then lower display resolution on desktop to 800x600. Afterwards change it in game and on desktop. You might need to login in and out of the game to let EQ create eqclient.ini file before you have all resolution options available in game. Avoid fractional scaling on desktop. It'll sometimes freeze game. Normal scaling is OK. If you change WindowedWidth and WindowedHeight in eqclient.ini file you might discover an issue with video modes not opening in game when you click it under display option window (Alt+o). You need to restart computer to reset it. Changing it in eqclient.ini file won't always change game window and might freeze game/computer so just do it in game. Full screen mode will often freeze game/computer so just play in window mode.

You will sometimes witness mouse and touch pad issues. It feels locked in horizontally movement (left and right). Solution is lowering FPS in game to 60. The lower you go the more you can turn (but it will effect smoothness of gameplay). Live with it at 60 fps. Lowering refresh rate on mouse and touch pad doesn't work. You can always turn fully with arrow keys on keyboard or you can let go of left click, click it again and turn again when you witness it in game. The best way is to learn playing with default settings in game and on keyboard and using short cuts, or it was/is for me :-).

You might witness an issue moving spells around in spell book. Changing to wine32 doesn't change the bug. Live with it and plan where you place your spells to begin with. Remember you end up as lvl 60, so you might want to count the number of different spells (and the once you plan to get) for you class on wiki so you can leave blank pages in your spell book for lvl's to come.

You might see terminal writing different errors (if it is open) when EQ is launched. Just ignore them (if you can live with it ;-)). Game works fine.

ENJOY!

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(Guide created on Marts 31. 2026 by Lakserejseren - Gondaf >Safe Space< Green server)