P99 on Linux Mint

[Trude]

I used to play p99 on a windows desktop but have been away for years. I'm trying to get back into Norrath, but the only computer I have is a laptop running Linux mint. I'm not at all familiar with Linux and don't know where to start. I know there is a guide for linux users but I don't understand much of the technical jargon and again....i'm not familiar enough with linux to get it working...I'm becoming discouraged.

Help?

[loramin]

http://wiki.project1999.com/EverQuest_in_Linux_Guide

But really you don't need a guide:

1. Install WINE via your distribution's package manager.
   
2. Download, install, and patch Titanium.
   
3. Run "wine eqgame.exe patchme" from your EQ directory.

[Tann]

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

http://wiki.project1999.com/EverQuest_in_Linux_Guide

But really you don't need a guide:

1. Install WINE via your distribution's package manager.
   
2. Download, install, and patch Titanium.
   
3. Run "wine eqgame.exe patchme" from your EQ directory.

sadly something is wonky with my stuff after i just reinstalled ubuntu on this intel nuc. p99 barely works, time from server select to character select is maybe 5minutes and it runs really slow/choppy. same nuc ran p99 lightning fast on win7. other games running fine, maybe ill try playonlinux

[loramin]

P.S. That guide is a little old, but it's a wiki, so if anything seems wrong about it feel free to fix it!

[Benanov]

I had a lot of trouble with one monitor (couldn't click the skill point up/down boxes on character creation) but switching monitors fixed that problem. Was a resolution issue.

There is one outstanding bug with WINE EQ. You cannot drag the mouse w/ mouselook past the ends of the screen. If you were going to use a modern quake-style control scheme, you will be disappointed.

[mai.cj]

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

There is one outstanding bug with WINE EQ. You cannot drag the mouse w/ mouselook past the ends of the screen. If you were going to use a modern quake-style control scheme, you will be disappointed.

I haven't experienced this limitation at all.

[planarity]

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

There is one outstanding bug with WINE EQ. You cannot drag the mouse w/ mouselook past the ends of the screen. If you were going to use a modern quake-style control scheme, you will be disappointed.

apparently this is an issue with nvidia cards. I have a friend who spent a lot of time working on this, and iirc the fix is to use certain wine versions. He settled on using a recent version of wine-staging. I believe that an easy way to achieve this is using lutris, which provides an easy way to install and try a number of different wine versions. I think "lutris-5.4" is the same as the wine-staging version that he ended up using

[Sendaris]

I have just got P1999 running using Steam on Linux! This solved my mouse look issues and I can even use the in-game graphics settings (brightness ect.) that didnt work at all in Wine for me. Just add P1999 as a non-steam game, then use the GE proton runtime.

This is the proton runtime I'm using:
https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/p...ustom/releases

[NalaAddict]

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

I have just got P1999 running using Steam on Linux! This solved my mouse look issues and I can even use the in-game graphics settings (brightness ect.) that didnt work at all in Wine for me. Just add P1999 as a non-steam game, then use the GE proton runtime.

This is the proton runtime I'm using:
https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/p...ustom/releases

What file in the EQ folder did you use? I didn't notice that steam copied the compatibility files in like it did for some other games that are steam games. I tried adding eqgame.exe in and adding patchme to the launch options. Prior, I tried adding that launcher bat instead. Both times, when I click Play, it just flashes quickly and does nothing. In both cases I told it to use proton 5.07 under its own menu of compatibility tools.

I've been having various issues with wine so far, in the absence of using steam, including, so far...zero music despite following the instructions that should have made it work. About to test sound, assuming it doesn't crash before entering world this time. If I don't figure this out soon, I'm either going to have to give in and either use a vm, or investigate how much hassle dual boot would be to put Win 8.1 in. For the record, I'm using MX linux (mxlinux.org) ... which is Debian based. I doubt it's the same beast as either Mint or Ubuntu.

[kissemisse]

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

What file in the EQ folder did you use? I didn't notice that steam copied the compatibility files in like it did for some other games that are steam games. I tried adding eqgame.exe in and adding patchme to the launch options. Prior, I tried adding that launcher bat instead. Both times, when I click Play, it just flashes quickly and does nothing. In both cases I told it to use proton 5.07 under its own menu of compatibility tools.

Not sure if you are still looking but i managed to get it working by:
1) Download and unpack the Proton 5.9 GE linked earlier from here
2) Create the folder 'compatibilitytools.d' in your $HOME/.steam/root folder.
3) Move the complete Proton GE folder you unpacked into this compatibilitytools.d folder.
4) Start steam and add a non steam game, select the eqgame.exe file from your Everquest folder.
5) You should be able to select Proton 5.9 for this game.
6) add the launch options to 'patchme'
7) Start the game. If it doesnt start i had to disable vulcan support (i have older graphics board) for the Proton to work. To do this you have to
a) in the folder containing Proton 5.9 copy the file "user_settings.sample.py" to "user_settings.py"
b) edit this file and enable the option 'Use OpenGL-based wine3d'

If not working, try running steam from command line and observe any errors.

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

There is one outstanding bug with WINE EQ. You cannot drag the mouse w/ mouselook past the ends of the screen. If you were going to use a modern quake-style control scheme, you will be disappointed.

Ive had this issue for a long time, but running under steam and proton seems to have solved this issue - such a relief (it was not related to nvidia cards).

Hugs