Running P99 On a chromebook (toshiba chromebook 2)

[Rhyken]

Hello,

I know there's a couple posts like this one out there and I've read through them, but the answers to my question tends to get glossed over so I'm a little confused. Here goes:

I'm attempting to play p99 on my Toshiba Chromebook 2. I have had no trouble running games (it plays half life 2 just fine) and I have wine installed. So What I've done is copied a windows installation of P99 over and put it in the .wine/program files/sony/everquest folder. Now what? I've seen a script to run it, but unfortunately I have no idea how to run the script. I've tried running the game straight from the eqgame.exe but it tells me to run the everquest.exe instead.(which of course doesn't work) Other posts said I had to edit the eqgame.exe and add patchme to it, but again, being the newb that I am I can't quite grasp what I'm supposed to do now that I have my p99 installation copied over, so I'm just spinning my wheels. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Pep]

You may have accidentally patched the client when trying different ways to run it, delete it and then copy again your windows installation on your chromebook.

Create a script that will start the game:

echo "cd ~/.wine/program\ files/sony/everquest/" > ~/starteq
echo "wine eqgame.exe patchme" >> ~/starteq

Make the script file executable:

chmod +x ~/starteq

Run the script file:

cd ~
./starteq

You should see a client window open asking to accept (or not) the EULA, after which you can login to play.

Post results and questions.

[Rhyken]

I've never written a script, or even attempted to make one. I opened gedit, pasted in the code and saved it, is that the correct way to do it?
So then I typed:

(precise)drew@localhost:~$ chmod +x ~/starteq
(precise)drew@localhost:~$

then I type:
(precise)drew@localhost:~$ ./starteq
./starteq: line 1: ??~/starteq: No such file or directory
./starteq: line 2: ??~/starteq: No such file or directory


Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

[Pep]

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

then I type:
(precise)drew@localhost:~$ ./starteq
./starteq: line 1: ??~/starteq: No such file or directory
./starteq: line 2: ??~/starteq: No such file or directory

The script doesn't have the correct path to the game. There are many ways to skin a cat, do as Tann suggests instead and post results.

[Tann]

you don't even need to run a script, just load the terminal in the directory that has eqgame.exe and run

taskset -c 0 padsp wine eqgame.exe patchme 2>/dev/null

this works for me at least, results may vary ><