Running EQ under LINUX

[falkun]

Update: Didn't really bother with Dx9 C fix, just implemented the eqclient.ini fixes mentioned by cadiz and I can play now. Water is beyond basic, but otherwise it looks good!

[mgellan]

Updated original post to refer peeps to the latest postings since seems like it's getting pretty dated

Regards,
Mg

[DoucLangur]

wine 1.5.20-41 under debian wheezy: problems with login server

Hey everyone,

in order to run the new EQEmuLauncher, it seems my old wine installation on debian squeeze wasn't good anymore. I think I couldn't install Mono or something.

One thing led to another, and I upgraded my Debian to wheezy (testing), and built wine from the git repository (although it works out of the box).

Both versions have the following problem: Once I get past the login (wrong login info gets rejected), the server selection screen does not show a server selection.

I can play on the Shards of Dalaya server just fine - everything works there. So the problem seems to get triggered by something EQEmu does differently.

When starting EQ directly with

WINEDEBUG=+winsock wine eqgame.exe patchme

I get the following error messages (plenty of em, full log available)

trace:winsock:WS2_recv_base socket 00e4, wsabuf 0x32faf8, nbufs 1, flags 0, from 0x32fb34, fromlen 16, ovl (nil), func (nil)
trace:winsock:WS2_recv_base fd=28, options=0
warn:winsock:WS2_recv_base  -> ERROR 10035

I installed wireshark and it shows me that the server information is actually transmitted to the computer (all the server's clear names show up in the content of arriving UDP packets). For some reason, wine is not able to receive and understand those UDP packets.

I am a bit at a loss, was hoping someone with a deeper understanding of wine would have an idea...

Oh - here's some documentation on the winsock error I was getting:
http://www.fixerror.net/2009/05/socket-error-10035/

And some discussion on the winsock error where it is not related to wine:
http://bobobobo.wordpress.com/2008/1...saewouldblock/

Anyone?

Kind regards

Slozem

[Wisteso]

The game is running perfectly using cadiz's eqclient.ini suggestions, latest ubuntu (12.10), and latest version of Wine.

OP should just copy the eqclient.ini changes into the first post (with credit to cadiz). It was a bit annoying searching for the post he was talking about.

[porigromus]

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

The game is running perfectly using cadiz's eqclient.ini suggestions, latest ubuntu (12.10), and latest version of Wine.

OP should just copy the eqclient.ini changes into the first post (with credit to cadiz). It was a bit annoying searching for the post he was talking about.

[xarzzardorn]

Throwing my chip in; I have the exact same problem on a new install of mint14 & wine1.5. Haven't gotten around to trying a different version of but I had EQ running fine on the same laptop with ubuntu12 and something like wine1.4(?)

[Wisteso]

Are you using the eqclient.ini file changes? I had the server select issue until I used them.

[falkun]

Has the eqclient.ini fix not worked for you Jeremy? I have an Nvidia card, but the eqclient fix worked for me.

[quido]

Yeah I tried a number of such fixes I found, including changing the source and recompiling, and none of them worked with my ATI card. I'm just gonna plop $150 into a cheap Nvidia card or something so I can play EQ from my server, lol.

It actually seemed to work really well right up until you have to get into a real 3d mode (char select).

[Alendria]

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Works. I'm not sure if this has been mentioned yet but for me the eqclient.ini wasn't generated until I tried running the game for the first time. From there it's smooth sailing.

Yes, I should have mentioned this back when I got it working. I copied the Titanium install from my Windows PC over into .wine/c_drive so I already had an eqclient.ini file generated. After adjusting that file it worked great.

Only oddity I have noticed is sometimes when I launch EQ the game will run at like half speed of what it should (lots of video lag, like it's running at 5fps or something). It's clearly evident at char select with the toon animations. I'll just quit out and restart until it loads properly. Can't tell if it's a Wine problem or the fact my laptop is 5+ years old.

Another interesting thing I found is that when I have that half speed instance running and I exit, eqgame.exe cleanly shuts down as a process should when it's closed. When eqgame.exe is actually running properly and I exit, the process hangs and has to be kill -9'd to drop properly. The wonderful mysteries of Linux!