Hi needsram,
Thanks so much for posting this. I am also running on Linux Mint 64bit so I will try it, as my sound is currently not working. I added WinHQ repository and got the latest version of wine-stable, and the sound is working in wine (tested via winecfg), but EQ has no sound.
I followed the Linux guide you linked, but when I first ran the game from the custom bash script, it was incredibly laggy and slow. In the guide's custom bash script, the following is mentioned: "# Bind to one core of the processor and launch."
That didn't fully make sense to me and since the game was slow as hell I changed it from this:
"taskset -c 0 padsp wine eqgame.exe patchme 2>/dev/null"
to this:
"wine eqgame.exe patchme"
And it works great now, very fluid and no graphical or gameplay issues, EXCEPT for the fact that I don't have any sound. I haven't been able to fix that yet, but based on what I have read so far it may well have to do with 32bit vs 64bit architecture, which your solution I'm hoping will address.
Here is a question for you: when the game loads, there is a box for Tip of the Day. This is always blank for me. Is that a P1999 quirk or perhaps something gone wrong with my install? Maybe you can corroborate based on your experience.
Best regards,
Ravana
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