Running EQ under LINUX

[Munuc]

Trying to install via this method on Ubuntu. I have done everything including copying the old Windows install over to the Ubu desktop, then placing into the Gordtulloch pre-compile. Made it the winecfg. Now I'm at the stage of making the link but am hitting problems as your method doesn't go into much detail - like you, I'm fed up with Windows and have deleted it! Totally new to this (I like the look of it but haven't got my head around Objective C and this is all Matrix numbers at the moment)!

So, to recap...

Folders
Desktop/ wine/ wine-1.2eq
Desktop/ wine/ ClassEQ

What would the shortcut link have to say so it doesn't patch?

Secondly, I tried playing sound (I could hear it fine) but found some error messages - any clues as to what I do? thanks in advance for being a complete godsend to a (N)ubunto...

fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub!
fixme:dwmapi[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]wmIsCompositionEnabled 0x33cfdc
fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle 0x3fde8d8, overlapped 0x3fde8e0): stub
wine: configuration in '/home/ian/.wine' has been updated.
fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on HP Deluxe Webcam KQ246AA, disabling mixer
fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on HDA ATI HDMI, disabling mixer
fixme:msg[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]ack_message msg 14 (WM_ERASEBKGND) not supported yet
fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on HP Deluxe Webcam KQ246AA, disabling mixer
fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on HDA ATI HDMI, disabling mixer
fixme:msg[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]ack_message msg 14 (WM_ERASEBKGND) not supported yet
fixme:msg[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]ack_message msg 14 (WM_ERASEBKGND) not supported yet

As an aside, if I wanted to play EQ Seeds of Destruction, would that mean I need to compile ANOTHER version of WINE?

Thanks again,

Munuc

[mgellan]

Originally Posted by Munuc [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What would the shortcut link have to say so it doesn't patch?

Assuming you create a script to run the code, then the shortcut link would be to the bash file? The script line that runs eq would be:

taskset -c 0 padsp wine eqgame.exe patchme 2>/dev/null

Just cut and paste the script posted in the OP and into a file named eq.sh, stick it somewhere like /home/munuc/bin, chmod 777 eq.sh to make it executable. Test it by running it from the command line, then make an icon and stick the command /home/munuc/bin/eq.sh as the command line to run the script.

Originally Posted by Munuc [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Secondly, I tried playing sound (I could hear it fine) but found some error messages - any clues as to what I do? thanks in advance for being a complete godsend to a (N)ubunto...

It works? Ignore the messages, wine spews tons of messages out all the time. Thats why the script says 2>/dev/null, send all the spam to the bit bucket [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Originally Posted by Munuc [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

As an aside, if I wanted to play EQ Seeds of Destruction, would that mean I need to compile ANOTHER version of WINE?

I don't have the SoD client so I can't test it but I find it highly unlikely it would work at all... anyone else try it?

Regards,
Mg

[Whirlwind]

Tried getting sources and compiling them myself and then tried with the precompiled version you uploaded with no luck at all... still missing the models :S any ideas? im using ubuntu 10.04

[Zallarenya]

Originally Posted by Whirlwind [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Tried getting sources and compiling them myself and then tried with the precompiled version you uploaded with no luck at all... still missing the models :S any ideas? im using ubuntu 10.04

Missing models is the problem that modifying the source (the pCaps->MaxVertexBlendMatrices=0x4; line) and compiling fixes. My first guess is that you have an ancient (or low-end) video card that doesn't support 4 Vertex Blend Matrices. GeForce 6000 series and up should be fine. ATI cards don't work particularly well, either.

[limit]

this looks alot like the guide i wrote a couple of years ago except that included mq2 instructions too [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

anyways! i've compiled a version of wine as a ".deb" binary package so people do not have to figure out how to compile wine on their own. this package includes the bug fix for character models and ALSO includes a bug fix for the mouse getting stuck in the center of the screen or mouselooking not working past the bounds of the screen. (this does cause another bug though where mouse clicks might "click" through to your other window of eq if you are running multiple windows of eq... negligible if you do not stack your windows on top of eachother)

if you want it pm me, or if you want to host the file, its about 16mbs!

[President]

Compiled following these steps and no luck with models. Have an 8800 GTS I believe.

Also with both version my EQ crashes when trying to login on a gnome. I can click every other race fine, but when I select my gnome character it freezes. I just tried to create a gnome, and as soon as I selected the gnome as race it crashed.

[President]

Just had the same type of crash selecting dark elf under char creation... hmm

[DoucLangur]

Another working setup:

Debian Squeeze, 2.6.32-5-amd64, nvidia chipset and the modified wine-1.3.8

I can provide instructions to get EQ to run with a clean install of debian squeeze, if anyone is interested. Got all the steps written down so I can reproduce em.

Working versions of EQ: EQ live, Shards of Dalaya, P99
Cheers,

Douc

[1203jjt]

Ok, so I've followed the original guide. I've installed Wine on ubuntu, and I've copied over my complete EQ folder from my windows laptop into the Wine folder. I'm stuck from there...how do I launch the game? I navigated into the folders and right clicked Launch Titanium.bat and told it to open with Wine. My computer acted like it was processing for a second, but nothing happened.

Also, since I copied an existing EQ folder over, I don't have any Everquest desktop shortcuts. Do I still need to install EQ even though I copied over the folder? Any help would be appreciated. Assume you're explaining things to an elementary student, as I'm no Linux pro.

[akselk]

Hey!

Thanks for the great guide.
Got everything up an working. If someone else experiences invisible character models this can be fixed in the eqclient.ini by setting vertexshaders = false.

Further, are anyone getting the music to work? I have all sound effects, but no music. Can this be because pulseaudio has troubles with the midi files?