Running EQ under LINUX

[gredoo]

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

I dropped the max fps to 50 and turned off some of the stuff like shadows. Haven't been in one of the really bad zones like skyfire yet but it seems to have made things less horrible.

well apparently I already asked a year ago :|

[needsram]

I wonder if my Wine version has something to do with the errors... I'm using wine-3.0 (Ubuntu 3.0-1ubuntu1). I installed it from "apt install wine-stable". I also installed wine64 from Synaptic, since I read something about doing that on 64-bit machines.

[mrquincy]

You may have just found the problem. You actually need wine32 to run this application. Try:

sudo apt-get install wine32

And after it's mounted

wine32 ./setup.exe

[needsram]

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

You may have just found the problem. You actually need wine32 to run this application. Try:

sudo apt-get install wine32

And after it's mounted

wine32 ./setup.exe

Here's what happens when I try to install wine32:

sudo apt-get install wine32
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
wine32:i386 is already the newest version (3.0-1ubuntu1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Here's what happens when I try to launch setup.exe with Wine:

wine32 ./setup.exe 
wine32: command not found

What distribution & version are you using? I could try installing that or at least running it LiveUSB or whatever, just to see if it works.

[needsram]

Nevermind, I got it running. I had to install wine-stable, wine32, and libglu1-mesa:i386. Thanks.

[mrquincy]

Glad to hear you got it going!

[gredoo]

anyone know any tricks for getting wine to perform better? Just maxes my CPU and machine starts to move at a crawl at raids.

Have a i7 3520M with intel 4000 gpu, i can't imagine this is too slow for 100 people in zone at 1400x900.

I'm wondering if I would be better off running EQ inside kvm VM?

[mrquincy]

Hark! If you're subscribed to this thread, waiting for updates on recent developments in EQ/P99 on Linux, please respond and tell me your troubles.

I've been offline for the last 6 months due to a distribution upgrade which broke EQ. I've resolved this issue, and may be able to help others who are experiencing slowness.

gredoo,
What linux distribution are you using?
What is the output of "glxinfo | head -50"?
What is the output of "wine --version"?
What is the command you're running to execute "eqgame.exe"?

[CrispyBurns]

I managed to get it installed and running in xubuntu lts, but when I run the script to fix the missing servers it just hangs. I waited nearly 3 hours and it never finished. I've just about given up hope. Anyone know what this is?

[mrquincy]

What script to fix missing servers? Are you referring to Zaela's Project1999 server filter?