P99 on Linux Mint

Trude · #1 08-26-2019, 04:48 PM

I used to play p99 on a windows desktop but have been away for years. I'm trying to get back into Norrath, but the only computer I have is a laptop running Linux mint. I'm not at all familiar with Linux and don't know where to start. I know there is a guide for linux users but I don't understand much of the technical jargon and again....i'm not familiar enough with linux to get it working...I'm becoming discouraged.

Help?

loramin · #2 08-27-2019, 10:55 AM

http://wiki.project1999.com/EverQuest_in_Linux_Guide

But really you don't need a guide:

Install WINE via your distribution's package manager.
Download, install, and patch Titanium.
Run "wine eqgame.exe patchme" from your EQ directory.

loramin · #3 08-27-2019, 11:00 AM

P.S. That guide is a little old, but it's a wiki, so if anything seems wrong about it feel free to fix it!

Benanov · #4 08-28-2019, 09:10 AM

I had a lot of trouble with one monitor (couldn't click the skill point up/down boxes on character creation) but switching monitors fixed that problem. Was a resolution issue.

There is one outstanding bug with WINE EQ. You cannot drag the mouse w/ mouselook past the ends of the screen. If you were going to use a modern quake-style control scheme, you will be disappointed.

mai.cj · #5 02-09-2020, 08:40 PM

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There is one outstanding bug with WINE EQ. You cannot drag the mouse w/ mouselook past the ends of the screen. If you were going to use a modern quake-style control scheme, you will be disappointed.

I haven't experienced this limitation at all.

planarity · #6 04-03-2020, 09:18 PM

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There is one outstanding bug with WINE EQ. You cannot drag the mouse w/ mouselook past the ends of the screen. If you were going to use a modern quake-style control scheme, you will be disappointed.

apparently this is an issue with nvidia cards. I have a friend who spent a lot of time working on this, and iirc the fix is to use certain wine versions. He settled on using a recent version of wine-staging. I believe that an easy way to achieve this is using lutris, which provides an easy way to install and try a number of different wine versions. I think "lutris-5.4" is the same as the wine-staging version that he ended up using

Sendaris · #7 04-05-2020, 10:08 PM

I have just got P1999 running using Steam on Linux! This solved my mouse look issues and I can even use the in-game graphics settings (brightness ect.) that didnt work at all in Wine for me. Just add P1999 as a non-steam game, then use the GE proton runtime.

This is the proton runtime I'm using:
https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/p...ustom/releases

Scratch&Sniff · #8 04-20-2020, 11:14 PM

im a linux noob but i patched my files very carefully and getting xml error on start up. i did just like Ioramin said not sure what im doing wrong

loramin · #9 04-21-2020, 11:49 AM

There's generally three things you can play with on Linux

winecfg: run it and enable/disable the checkboxes for Emulate a Virtual Desktop; if that doesn't help, try enabling/disabling the two "windows controls" checkboxes next to it
drivers (on Linux Mint use the Driver Manager in menu): switch to different versions of your graphics card driver (eg. proprietary instead of open source, or vice versa, or just slightly newer/older versions of each)
wine itself: try playing with slightly different versions of Wine (eg. staging vs. development)

It's all a lot more of a guessing game than an exact science. Good luck.

FTN806 · #10 05-10-2020, 09:37 AM

Hello there. I recently created a shell script to install Project1999 on Linux, specifically tested on Linux Mint. All you need is a torrent client, the rest is done for you.

A friend was tired of manually setting everything up on new machines. I did a little digging on the P99 on Linux wiki and threw together a small script. It should work on any Debian based distribution, but if you are using another distribution you can just install the required packages manually before running the script.

I'll add other distribution support in the future. Script was thrown together quickly and is a little rough, feel free to change it as you please.

https://github.com/ftn806/P99-Linux-Installer