[Guide] EQ under wine (Fedora LINUX 14+ 32 or 64bit)

[D3Vena]

Having an issue with the wget paste in step 2. Seems like it may be broken. Will try again later. Too tired right now to even focus.

[cadiz]

Originally Posted by D3Vena [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Having an issue with the wget paste in step 2. Seems like it may be broken. Will try again later. Too tired right now to even focus.

Hey D3Vena, I noticed there was an unneeded space in the 64bit-only wget paste line.
Please try it again and it should work for you.

[jarinaEQ1]

1st run crash at char selection after new copy of installation, updating eqclient.ini :

Same issue i've already encournter under ubuntu : no servers in servers selection list :s

(http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...=14125&page=13)

[fzzzt]

The empty server selection is a strange/complex problem. My friend has an EQ install on Linux Mint 17 XFCE that brings up the servers almost all the time at home, but never at work (a group of us play at work together after hours). However, the rest of us have no problems on Windows at the exact same time...

The problem he's having is his character selection always says he has an outdated spell list, when he doesn't. I've watched him extract the latest one and the files are there, so something else is wrong there...

It's a shame this is so difficult.

[mrquincy]

Hi fzzzzt,

One problem I experienced on my Debian installation was, apparently, due to long server lists that exceeded the developers expectations. Zaela produced a filter app that forwards only the server entries which begin "Project 1999". I have 100% success connecting after adding this to my EQ startup workflow:

https://github.com/Zaela/p99-login-middlemand

[mrquincy]

The MGellan guide seemed to indicate that NVIDIA drivers are required to run P99 on Linux distros.

Can someone here confirm that they were able to get a P99 working with intel graphics?

I just purchased a Lenovo T470 to replace my T420s, and unfortunately the new computer uses integrated Intel graphics rather than an NVIDIA GPU...

[cadiz]

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

The MGellan guide seemed to indicate that NVIDIA drivers are required to run P99 on Linux distros.

Can someone here confirm that they were able to get a P99 working with intel graphics?

I just purchased a Lenovo T470 to replace my T420s, and unfortunately the new computer uses integrated Intel graphics rather than an NVIDIA GPU...

Yes, intel graphics work just fine. There's a few eqclient.ini settings you'll want to change if things don't look right in this thread but other than that the Intel integrated graphics work fine.

I've played on a number of Lenovo/Thinkpads (currently using an x270).

[loramin]

I'm on Linux Mint, and I have both an Nvidia card and built-in Intel graphics. I stopped running on the Intel graphics card because it couldn't handle three monitors AND EverQuest without EQ lagging ... but honestly if I'd just gone down to one or two monitors it probably would have been fine.

[Seanysean]

Hey guys I am new to Fedora 29. I was able to get through the install ok, however I am running into issues running the game without it trying to patch itself. When I run eqgame.exe it will error and say "please run everquest.exe" I am not seeing any option in properties to run it with patchme. If i try to run the wine command in term I just get the unable to find eqgame.exe

[cadiz]

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

Hey guys I am new to Fedora 29. I was able to get through the install ok, however I am running into issues running the game without it trying to patch itself. When I run eqgame.exe it will error and say "please run everquest.exe" I am not seeing any option in properties to run it with patchme. If i try to run the wine command in term I just get the unable to find eqgame.exe

Heya, I've been meaning to just write an updated blog post on how to get this working but I think you just need to pass patchme to your wine command you're using to run Everquest via Wine.

You want to run this in a terminal then you can make a script to run it later and associate the equivalent of a Linux desktop shortcut which I'll explain farther down in this post. With Wine you need to manually pass options since you're calling the Windows executable with it.

To test that first go to where eqgame.exe is located, open a terminal and run:

wine eqgame.exe patchme

Here's what I use as a script (this is on Fedora 28) - it cd's into the directory where EQ is installed and runs, adjust accordingly.

#!/bin/sh
# start everquest
cd /home/repo/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/EverQuest/ ; taskset -c 0 /usr/bin/wine eqgame.exe patchme

You can save this to a file, call it something like start-everquest.sh. Modify it to match the path where your game is installed and use it to launch the game. taskset -c just forces it to run on one CPU core, Everquest is single-threaded and there's known issues on some older multi-core systems so it's more of a precaution.


Further, you can make a .desktop file so the Everquest program is searchable in whatever desktop environment you're using (XFCE here) but I would first get things working via a script or command line before further customizing for convenience. Again, adjust paths and the name of your script accordingly.

Pasting this into a terminal would create the appropriate .desktop entry.

cat > /home/repo/.local/share/applications/everquest.desktop <<EOF
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Everquest
Comment=Everquest
Exec=sh /home/repo/scripts/start-eq.sh
Icon=/home/repo/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/EverQuest/Everquest.ico
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Categories=Games;
Path=
EOF

I hope this helps.