EverQuest II

What works

Patcher, updating, login.

What does not

Character Select, Entering the world

Workarounds

What was not tested

Gameplay

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Using Wineskin and registry settings from the HOWTO. Got as far as the opening load screen of actual game, with music and graphic banners (initial video is black screen, but audio is present) and loading world / character message windows, then game abruptly exits with a 'Serious Problem' message and this in the LastRunX11.log file from Wineskin: X11.app: DISPLAY does not look like a launchd set variable, unsetting. X11.app: main(): argc=8 argv[0] = /Users/spanky/Wineskin/EverQuest II.app/Contents/MacOS/WineskinX11 argv[1] = :8676 argv[2] = -depth argv[3] = 24 argv[4] = +xinerama argv[5] = -br argv[6] = +extension argv[7] = WineskinLine Waiting for startup parameters via Mach IPC. X11.app: No launchd socket handed off, unsetting DISPLAY X11.app: do_start_x11_server(): argc=8 argv[0] = /Users/spanky/Wineskin/EverQuest II.app/Contents/MacOS/WineskinX11 argv[1] = :8676 argv[2] = -depth argv[3] = 24 argv[4] = +xinerama argv[5] = -br argv[6] = +extension argv[7] = WineskinLine Attempting to use pixel depth of 24 [mi] Extension "WineskinLine" is not recognized [mi] Only the following extensions can be run-time enabled: [mi] Generic Events [mi] DAMAGE [mi] DOUBLE-BUFFER [mi] GLX [mi] MIT-SCREEN-SAVER [mi] MIT-SHM [mi] RANDR [mi] RENDER [mi] X-Resource [mi] XFIXES [mi] XINERAMA [mi] XTEST [mi] XVideo Xquartz starting: X.Org X Server 1.7.6 Build Date: 20100410 [dix] Could not init font path element /Applications/.Wineskin2/lib/X11/fonts/misc/, removing from list! [dix] Could not init font path element /Applications/.Wineskin2/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/, removing from list! [dix] Could not init font path element /Applications/.Wineskin2/lib/X11/fonts/OTF, removing from list! [dix] Could not init font path element /Applications/.Wineskin2/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, removing from list! [dix] Could not init font path element /Applications/.Wineskin2/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/, removing from list! [dix] Could not init font path element /Applications/.Wineskin2/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/, removing from list! [dix] Could not init font path element /System/Library/Fonts, removing from list! /bin/sh: WineskinLine: command not found /bin/sh: -c: option requires an argument The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: > Error: Can't find file "empty" for symbols include > Exiting > Abandoning symbols file "default" Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server Quitting Xquartz... start_x11_server: (ipc/mig) server died Also tried disabling the PixelShaderMode registry entry - this causes the program to die immediately after pressing 'Play' from the launcher. Also tried 1.2RC2 and 1.1.44 with identical results. Hardware: 2007 iMac desktop, ATI Radeon 2600 HD Mobility graphics, 4GB RAM, 2.8Ghz Core Duo. Software: OS X 10.5.8 I'm still messing around with settings, but so far this is a no go with no help found from Google or WineHQ

Suggested Registry Settings:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER

    Software
        Wine
           Direct3D

DirectDrawRenderer -> opengl

OffScreenRenderingMode -> fbo (with newer video cards)

PixelShaderMode -> enabled

RenderTargetLockMode -> texdraw

1. Requirements: Please make sure your system meets these specs.
   
   • MUST have wine > 0.9.49. Everquest 2 will not work with earlier wine versions.
     
   • Runs slowly, if at all with 512MB RAM. 2GB+ recommended.
   • Graphics cards that support pixel shaders 3.0 are known to work: refs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_shader
     
   • GeForce series 6+
   • Intel GMA 950+
   • Radeon R520+ (X1300+)
   • Todo: test SiS Mirage 4
   • glxinfo | grep direct # should say yes. If not, check your distro's docs for setting up accelerated video drivers.
     
2. Install, or copy working game folder from windows partition. If anyone can confirm that it installs ok post below.
   
3. Add r_font_ft 0 to eq2.ini
4. wine_gecko crashes the patcher screen (no BITS support in wine yet. See bug 6253) so if you want to run patcher, rename the HKCU/wine/MSHTML that should disable Gecko. or You can not install wine_gecko.
   
5. Run the patcher you should be able to launch the game from the patcher

Download here for new players:

http://download.station.sony.com/patch/download/eq2/EQ2trialinstaller.exe

or here for existing players:

http://download.station.sony.com/patch/download/eq2/eq2-us.zip

I recommend downloading PyEQ2MAP:

http://www.eq2interface.com/downloads/info4863-PyEQ2MAPUpdaterUNOFFICIALforLinux.html

If you would rather use the old perl script posted by Stefan Klein you might be able to get it working by following the next steps, but I'm not making any promises:

1) Change the $basefile = "extra_file.xml" to $basefile = "file_list.xml";
2) Add the following directories to your UI ($eq2mapdir) folder if they don't exist:
* POI
* eq2map2
* images
* images/maps
* images/icons
3) Run the script
4) If you're experiencing problems in the game you might need to delete the file 'eq2ui_mainhud_map.xml' in your UI folder.

**OLD SCRIPT by Stefan Klein on Monday December 10th 2007, 14:37
Hacked a small perl script to update EQ2MAP.
Edit $eq2mapdir to the full path of your installation, fix http in $baseurl.
use at own risk. **

--------------------------------------------------------
#!/usr/bin/perl

use XML::Simple;

$eq2mapdir = ".. PATH TO WINEDIR .. drive_c/Program Files/Sony/EverQuest\ II/UI/EQ2MAP/";


$baseurl = "h t t p : / / maps.eq2interface.com/POI_files/";
$basefile = "extrafile_list.xml";

my $mainfile = `wget -q -O - $baseurl$basefile`;

my $ref = XMLin($mainfile, SuppressEmpty =>'');

foreach my $file (@{$ref->{'Extra'}}) {
if (-e $eq2mapdir . $file->{LocalPath} . $file->{FileName}) {
($md5, $filename) = split(/ /,`md5sum \"$eq2mapdir$file->{LocalPath}$file->{FileName}\"`);
if ("$file->{MD5}" eq "$md5" ) {
next;
}
}

print "downloading $file->{FileName}: \t ";

`wget -q -O \"$eq2mapdir$file->{LocalPath}$file->{FileName}\" \"$baseurl$file->{ServerPath}$file->{FileName}\"`;

print " finished\n";
}

PLEASE DO NOT POST "Sentinel's Fate" test results under the "Shadow Odyssey"!
You may select the Sentinel's Fate version of EQ2 by scrolling to the top of your screen, clicking on EverQuest 2 in the game hierarchy, and then, at the next page, clicking Sentinel's Fate.

Note From Maintainer djdunn,

Remember that many of the graphical options in everquest2 even on Windows are themselves buggy.  Many of them don't work right if at all on windows.  On top of this Many of the Windows API calls are far from well designed and many of the Devs problems with this project is trying to recreate broken API calls to perform and have exactly the same bugs as the original windows API.  On top of this understand that Wine has been developed for over 15 years and you may not be able to get this game to work on your hardware.  Compared to Everquest, or WoW or even Guildwars, Everquest2 takes a lot more resources.

Please remember a few months ago this game didn't work at all.   I as a maintainer do give this game a silver rating, but also with an application so graphical and hardware intensive you have to have your Linux in really good shape.  without much clutter, without a lot of running background processes. And the processes you are running have to be configured well to do what you need and configured to not do what you dont need them to do.

My biggest suggestion is that if you don't have your linux box configured the way you like, or your not getting the performance you would like off of you linux box and you don't like the performance you get from trying to play EQ2 on Linux.  This is probably not the way to go, I would really suggest sticking with Windows.

Note From Maintainer John Beaulieu, 

Please do not edit your eq2_recent.ini. There has been some confusion over this. This file should never be edited and if you do it will be overwritten by eq2 at some point. It is not a static file. The file that you may edit is eq2.ini. If you don't have the file when you need to edit it just create it.

This version should probably be deleted. I'm fairly certain people are posting test data here that belongs on Sentinel's Fate. I'm not the only maintainer now, so I'm not going to just delete it, but that would be my inclination if I was still the only maintainer. +1 ... -cww

The station launcher is no longer supported by SOE. Launchpad 4 is now the default launcher. Using any other will cause it to upgrade itself to Launchpad 4. It can be downloaded directly from:

http://launch.soe.com/eq2//

The game requires you to run the newest version of the game, so nobody uses an older version. Because of this, the only "versions" we maintain are the full install client and the streaming install client. Please place all test results in the proper one.

 EverQuest II Extended has been merged with the Live game. The Steam version is a wrapper around the Full Install Client and still uses Launchpad.