Running EQ under LINUX

[mgellan]

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

I actually have the same issue going full screen. It crashes out. I also find that it is running ridiculously slow in windowed mode. Unplayable really.

I have installed it, updated to v43 files (which had the correct DSETUP file) and verified that my comp is running off my NVIDIA chipset, not the onboard intel stuff. I guess my next step is to play around with drivers and see if that helps.

Anyone have any thoughts? I have a 660m NVIDIA Geforce with the NVIDIA 367.57 recommended drivers going.

Was just reading back through the thread and saw this - for ANYONE having display problems on Linux with NVIDIA make sure you're running the proprietary NVIDIA drivers not the open source drivers that come by default. Other than causing all sorts of problems with multiple monitors etc. performance is shit. Yes I know this guy is but just a thought [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Regards,
Mg

[krakmojo]

Try the following setting in your eqclient.ini, it helped me sometimes.

VertexShaders=FALSE

[malishious]

I am running xubuntu and have wine installed and titanium installed. I have all the necessary files added and/or removed. I have edited the EQ wine icon command and used my user instead of <user>. When I click on the icon to run the game nothing happens. No error messages or pop-ups. Any idea as to what I am doing wrong?

[Grizzled]

I got everything working so far with POL. Except p99 keeps telling me my spell files are out of date, even though I have already copy/pasted version 45(current) in their folders.

[Ashintar]

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

I got everything working so far with POL. Except p99 keeps telling me my spell files are out of date, even though I have already copy/pasted version 45(current) in their folders.

Did you rename dsetup.dll to the correct case?

Originally Posted by VincentF
Things i did to get everquest P99 working on my Antergos/Gnome3 setup

1. Copied eq1 folder to linux
2. removed files from eq folder as per p99 website
3. When copying p99 specific files into eq folder pay attention to case sensitive files, in particular dsetup.dll! You have to rename it to DSETUP.dll
4. Get sound to work. Open terminal and enter sudo pacman -S lib32-alsa-lib lib32-alsa-plugins lib32-libpulse lib32-alsa-oss lib32-openal
5. Edit eqclient.ini and change video mode or size to fit your monitor
5a. Change windowedmode to false if you want fullscreen
5b. set refresh rate to 60

I also have the blank server login screen occasionally but usually only takes one retry to get it working

[Grizzled]

looks like I had both caps and lower case for that dll. deleted the lower case, no change though, still spell out of date message. changed the dll to uppercase and doesnt make a difference either.

[sounion]

I'm new to ubuntu so I may be asking a stupid question.

I have eq titanium installed and the wine desktop shortcut setup. But, I don't know how to change my eqgame.exe to eqgame patchme. In Windows I know I could right click > properties and type it in, but I don't have that option when I go into properties in ubuntu. I am within the .wine directory in my files.

Any ideas?

[Kavious]

Theres various ways it could be done. I personally just have the shortcut call an EQStart.sh script that will load the game. Here is the script I use:

#!/bin/sh
# if you don't have the script's cwd set, you get XML errors
export WINEPREFIX=/home/username/.wine/

cd /home/username/.wine/drive_c/EverQuest

# 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

[sounion]

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

Theres various ways it could be done. I personally just have the shortcut call an EQStart.sh script that will load the game. Here is the script I use:

#!/bin/sh
# if you don't have the script's cwd set, you get XML errors
export WINEPREFIX=/home/username/.wine/

cd /home/username/.wine/drive_c/EverQuest

# 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

Do I do this in Terminal? And I notice the taskset is still using eqgame.exe patchme. I can't edit the exe to add the patchme. How do I do that?

[Kavious]

Its like a Windows batch file. You just create a text file of the above and then run it (or point your shortcut to open the shell script).

You technically could run the commands in a terminal and it would work just the same