Running EQ under LINUX

[sounion]

I got back to this. I was able to sort out a few things, like getting the right path typed into the 'cd' line of the script. But when I run 'taskset -c 0 padsp wine eqgame.exe patchme' I get errors.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pulseaudio/libpulsedsp.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pulseaudio/libpulsedsp.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33ebd4,0x00000000), stub!
^Cfixme:console:CONSOLE_DefaultHandler Terminating process 8 on event 0

I'm not sure what this means.

And on my first try, it kicked the terminal into a loop of errors and a crash prompt came up to close down the wine app. The terminal was reading the following for that, but it did not happen on my second try.

err:winedbg:dbg_handle_debug_event 0008:0009: not a registered process or thread (perhaps a 16 bit one ?)

Any ideas?

[sounion]

I did follow this guide to try and fix it, but it produced the same error.

[mgellan]

Getting a bunch of "fixme" error messages on the console is normal for WINE, thats why the scripts usually just redirect errors to the bit bucket. It just means some aspect of the Windows emulation is not working / implemented but the software runs just fine.

If you google the error the following article comes up:

http://www.ideatrash.net/2014/06/fix...on-64-bit.html

Any time an error pops up like that Google is your best friend [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Regards,
Mg

[sounion]

Okay, so running the .sh file only opens the text file. The game is not loading.

See my file below:

#!/bin/sh
# if you don't have the script's cwd set, you get XML errors
export WINEPREFIX=/home/name/.wine/

cd /home/name/.wine/drive_c/'Program Files (x86)'/Sony/EverQuest

# Bind to one core of the processor and launch.
# The client will spew a lot of errors, especially every time
# you target a mob, hence the stdout/stderr redirect.
# You probably want to leave off the 2>/dev/null until you're satisfied
# everything is working.

taskset -c 0 padsp wine eqgame.exe patchme

Any issues?

[sounion]

I realized that the program is trying to launch, but crashing before I get a screen to pop up. Here's what happens.

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Notice the black rectangle in the top left, that's EQ launching. I am not sure if the answer lies in the text in the terminal. I ran the script codes from there as the .sh file was not launching anything, instead it was just opening in gedit.

Is it an issue of not having eqgame.exe changed to eqgame.exe patchme?

[Izmael]

I would try an older version of Wine. I run EQ in a 3-4 years old version of Wine. Newer version never worked for me.

Wine is a sad clusterfuck but that's all we have really to play EQ under Linux.

[sounion]

How do I find the old version?

[Kavious]

Ive got mine working with Wine 1.7.55 on Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon

https://www.winehq.org/announce/1.7.55

I originally tried Ubuntu and couldnt troubleshoot the issues with getting p99 to work. I couldnt get it to work with PlayOnLinux either, but I also wasnt too familiar with how to setup the options. A friend told me he plays p99 on Linux Mint, so I switched to Mint, installed wine and EQ loaded right up without any problems. Mine is currently working on Mint without using PlayOnLinux

[Egilmn]

Newer versions work, I randomly have 1.9.18 without any issue. I am almost sure 2+ will work as well. Everquest works fine with wine, including live eq.

Sounion, why don't you just go to the everquest directory in the terminal and do taskset -c 0 wine eqgame.exe patchme, then see what happens. Isolate the problem before figuring out launch scripts.

[sounion]

I've done that. The game just crashes on takeoff. The pic I linked shows that process.