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Lakserejseren
03-31-2026, 08:03 AM
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!

Feel free to comment.

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

Lakserejseren
03-31-2026, 01:58 PM
Hold down left mouse button over the spell you want to move and at the same time click right mouse button and spells wil begin to blink. Right click on an empty slot to move the spell.

Lakserejseren
03-31-2026, 02:57 PM
Follow this guide (scroll down to Ubuntu guide) to install Wine 11.0 and reboot your system:

https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/01/wine-11-0-released-how-to-install/

Lakserejseren
03-31-2026, 03:06 PM
Go to https://github.com/smasherprog/EqTool?tab=readme-ov-file and download Linux P99. Extract it. Open terminal and type: wine cmd. Hit enter. Open extracted folder and copy path. Paste the path into terminal with cd first: cd /home/YOU TYPE YOUR USER NAME HERE FROM COMPUTER LOGIN PROFILE/Downloads/EQTool_Linux5.25.812.1 . Be aware of new EQTool versions so it might not be right. Hit enter. Type in terminal: start eqtool.exe . It will install and open. Browse EQ path to folder Everquest in Wine (C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony\EverQuest). Hit open. It can be difficult for it to response, but you can try to click on folder logs and erase the bit with logs before you hit open. It's not the log file as with Nparse. Open eqclient.ini in Everquest folder and change Log=FALSE to Log=TRUE. Save it and close eqclient.ini. Enable log in EQ by typing: /log on - in game.

I guess that's it. Everything is working now. :)

loramin
03-31-2026, 03:31 PM
Everyone makes their own guide in the forum (or on Reddit) ... and then it's forgotten about a week later.

Imagine if everyone instead put their effort into improving the wiki guide? Instead of N different guides, of varying quality we'd just have one ... and it would cover everyone's cases ... and be high quality!

loramin
03-31-2026, 03:33 PM
https://wiki.project1999.com/EverQuest_in_Linux_Guide

Lakserejseren
03-31-2026, 03:49 PM
You're right! Been looking for this guide myself for years....... Then I decided to find out and do it. Feel free to try it. When the guide is confirmed to "work". I make the complete (no knowledge) guide and post it on wiki. :)

Thanks for your comments!

loramin
03-31-2026, 04:22 PM
You're right! Been looking for this guide myself for years....... Then I decided to find out and do it. Feel free to try it. When the guide is confirmed to "work". I make the complete (no knowledge) guide and post it on wiki. :)

Thanks for your comments!

The problem is, everyone wants their guide, written their way, with their exact sequence and install sources ... which doesn't result in the best guide for most people.

To be clear, I'm not trying to single you out! Even N different guides is better than none, and I appreciate the effort you made to share your's with others.

I'm just saying "what if?" What if instead of making a whole new guide, person 1 just added a few "branch points" to the existing guide, whenever it differed ... and also maybe rewrote a few existing lines to be clearer

Then person 2, who instead used the app image, just added a "branch point" for that, and improved a few other lines. And person 3, who used the WINE helper library du jour added it ... you get the idea.

At the end, will several people all adding options and revising for clarity, we'd have one really good guide, that's easy to read, with lots of options for different ways to do different parts of the install ... instead of N different "written once, never revised, and only handling one path" guides.

I honestly don't know how to get that to happen though.

Lakserejseren
03-31-2026, 07:10 PM
Feel free to share it on wiki (I dont have an account). :)

Lakserejseren
04-03-2026, 07:38 AM
What's new:
Links updated
Sections and layout updated (due to upload limitations I couldn't upload the flashy one)
Quick walkthrough added (Install in 15 steps)
Troubleshooting added

Lakserejseren
04-05-2026, 07:11 AM
What’s new:

Quick installation guide reduced to only 6 simple steps! You can go from zero to playing EverQuest in only 5 minutes.

The file is now uploaded as a .txt to ensure it will stay under the P1999 forum's 19.5 KB upload limit.
Desktop icon for running EverQuest
Desktop icon for running PigParse (EQTool)
Desktop icon for running both EverQuest and PigParse
Useless desktop icon and the two useless icons under Apps are removed when installing
Link to newest guide version available in the beginning
Table of contents

Fixed:
Two Part numbers were the same
Command line under Part 2 → wine /media/YOUR_USERNAME/EQ_TITANIUM_1 – underscore instead of dot.
Reduced language to be more straight forward

Added to Troubleshooting parts:
“No spells” error under troubleshooting (Part 6)
Error message - You must enable Logging! from PigParse (Part 7)
3D device not found and game not launching after running “sudo apt autoremove” in terminal. (Part 8)
How to Uninstall EverQuest under Wine and completely erase the last files in EverQuest folder
How to delete PigParse from your system

Liam202
04-13-2026, 10:29 PM
Imagine if everyone instead put their effort into improving the wiki guide?

Lakserejseren
04-14-2026, 06:20 AM
I will, unfortunately not able to log in at the moment. Waiting for wikip1999 administrator to fix the issues...... :)