Starting fresh on blue under Linux - Mouse problem

[Nokio]

Hi all,

I have not played this game in 10 years and I want to give it a fresh start on blue.
I am installing the game under Linux and everything is working great. At least for everything beside the mouse.

When I use the mouse to right click to move the camera, when I reach the edge of the screen my camera move all 360 degree soooo fast. This is not normal (at least under windows turning around using the mouse move smoothly) and wanted to see if there was other player running under Linux and if they had this problem and maybe a fix.

Side question1: What resolution you run the game at? My display is 1920x1080 and I am running the game as 1600x900. But the UI and text is so small.
Side question2: Do you recommand any ui or sidetool for everquest?

[loramin]

I haven't seen that specifically, but I'd recommend trying winecfg.

Go to the graphics tab and you'll see some checkboxes at the top. Try playing with allowing the window manager to control windows (or not) and emulate a virtual desktop (set the resolution to the eq resolution) or not.

[Nokio]

Hi Loramin,

Thanks for the input.
Did you follow a guide when you first installed?

I am running the game under Lutris. Pretty much did a fresh install and put in the "Project 1999 Patch Files (V53). " and hit play.
Do you play fullscreen or windowed?

[Nokio]

I will need to figure out how to capture the mouse when I use Lutris.
If I use wine from the cli without Lutris. I can get the mouse to be capture as configured in winecfg.
And it work perfectly. Then I can just use the windows key if I was to get out and use a browser for instance.

[loramin]

I've never used Lutris (or a guide), but it looks like it's just a front-end, and it still probably uses WINE "under the hood". But it might use its own WINE configuration or something /shrug

As for full screen vs. windowed, I get the best of both with "full screen windowed mode" (ie. windowed mode, but I adjust the resolution to fill the screen): http://wiki.project1999.com/User_Interface_Enhancements

[Nokio]

Thanks for your time and help Loramin.

Turns out I needed to add "emulate virtual desktop" under winecfg.
Also needed to uncheck "Allow the window manager to control the windows" under winecfg.

It then work perfectly fine either direct from CLI or from Lutris.

I will now spend some time to check the wiki page you sent.
And try to see if there are other wiki page that are interesting to keep in mind.
After that I will look if I want to use a UI like Duxa or QQui.

Many thanks again for your time and help !

[loramin]

No problem, hope you enjoy P99 (on Linux :D)

[Nokio]

Hello again.

I am indeed enjoying P99!
I mostly have been messing around creating character and running through different city just for the fun. I will start levelling soon(If I can figured if I start on green or blue). I wanted to see again those city etc.

There is 2 problem I have left.
The first one was midi sound were not playing and I found a solution to that.
The second problem, I have no solution for now. When I change zone, sometimes the game crash.

Would you happen to know of that problem?

[BlackBellamy]

Side question1: What resolution you run the game at? My display is 1920x1080 and I am running the game as 1600x900. But the UI and text is so small.


You can't do anything about the buttons and other ui elements, but you can use /chatfontsize to make the chat text bigger or smaller as you like.

[loramin]

The second problem, I have no solution for now. When I change zone, sometimes the game crash.

Would you happen to know of that problem?

I don't, but first of all:

A) it's an old game, so even under the best of circumstances it will still crash every now and then when you zone

B) in my experience many issues are graphics driver related, so I'd try playing with different versions of both the open source and proprietary drivers until you find one that works well

[Nokio]

Loramin, I did a lot of test during the week end. I fixed, for now all the issue I had.
No crash in 6+ hours. Which is amazing!

Decided to start fresh from 0 on the green server.
Again thanks for your time and help. Greatly appreciated!

[Benanov]

B) in my experience many issues are graphics driver related, so I'd try playing with different versions of both the open source and proprietary drivers until you find one that works well

If you have an AMD/ATI card and you're using the proprietary drivers, you're gonna have a bad time. Use the free ones, they're better and they're installed by default.

If you have an Nvidia card, you're probably using the proprietary drivers, and you're gonna have a bad time. Buy new hardware. (Everything will work until you try to upgrade, then you are absolutely boned. I have seen several installs bricked by NVidia drivers. Friends don't let friends use NVDA.)

If you have an Intel card...well, EQ will work. That and Minecraft. Intel's advantage is that every linux distro everywhere includes the best Intel driver (there is no proprietary driver). See what older AMD cards you can find on eBay.

[Nokio]

Hello Benanov,

You already are my friend talking like that about amd.
I run a Ryzen2600 and a RX480 and run the free driver under mesa 19.3.4.
Not that it changes anything for Everquest :p

The problem I had for everquest came from using Lutris. For whatever reason...
I run all my game using Lutris as a frontend to wine and it has seriously been a charm to use.
For Everquest though, not so much. I created a fresh .wine and run Everquest from the cli using that .wine as the wine prefix. It work perfectly.

I will spend more time later on to find what Lutris does to that game to make it crash, otherwise i will not be able to sleep.(but I probably won't and just run from the cli and enjoy the game(and still be able to sleep!))

[loramin]

Loramin, I did a lot of test during the week end. I fixed, for now all the issue I had.
No crash in 6+ hours. Which is amazing!

Decided to start fresh from 0 on the green server.
Again thanks for your time and help. Greatly appreciated!

Glad I could help :D

If you have an AMD/ATI card and you're using the proprietary drivers, you're gonna have a bad time. Use the free ones, they're better and they're installed by default.

If you have an Nvidia card, you're probably using the proprietary drivers, and you're gonna have a bad time. Buy new hardware. (Everything will work until you try to upgrade, then you are absolutely boned. I have seen several installs bricked by NVidia drivers. Friends don't let friends use NVDA.)

If you have an Intel card...well, EQ will work. That and Minecraft. Intel's advantage is that every linux distro everywhere includes the best Intel driver (there is no proprietary driver). See what older AMD cards you can find on eBay.

I actually have both an Nvidia card AND a built-in Intel one, which of course is extra fun on Linux.

But really, I don't think you can make generalizations. For me having two cards, but using the Nvidia one with proprietary drivers (specifically nvidia-415) works great.

And if you were going to pick a company to hate, I'd pick ATI over Nvidia. I once had a TV tuner card from them and, no joke, their support team told me to reinstall the drivers for it (requiring a computer reset) ... every time I wanted to use the card!

Also, my cousin worked there for a year, so I can confirm the company's as messed up internally as it appears to be externally. Meanwhile I used to work with both companies for my job (granted this was like twenty years ago) and Nvidia always had their shit together while ATI rarely did.