Entropia Universe

What works

Launcher, starting the client but it crashes or wont respond when you login.

What does not

The game itself. In 1.1.33 there are some ploblems with the Launcher but it still works to start EU. If you downgrade to 1.1.32 it will work fine but you cant start EU so its pointless. The buttons under where you type your password when you have started EU.

Workarounds

What was not tested

in-game.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

You need to have 1.1.33 to be able to start EU. If you haven't got it it will just be a empty window And please don't complain if i took the wrong rating.

For any brave souls who want to try it, there has been a success at logging in reported using a new installation of wine 1.0.1 and the directX 10 library, even on a system with an (older) nvidia card. The good news is obviously that getting into the game is possible under the right circumstances. The bad news is that it seems to require a set of conditions not yet fully understood. This is the process:

$> winetricks wmp9
$> winetricks vcrun2005sp1
$> wine /location/of/DirectX\ 10.exe

(The DX10 on WinXP library linked above)
$> wine /location/of/vcredist_x86.exe
(This security patch for 2005 SP1 VCRUN library.)

$> wine /location/of/entropia_universe_setup.exe

As for newer versions of Wine, this is the only one way to get EU to the point that the client will run. It still always freezes or crashes on login.

In (K)Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install wine

wine /media/cdrom0/entropia_universe_setup.exe

(Allow it to try to install the VC runtime files; it then fails trying to install DirectX and exits)

sh winetricks directx9

(Even though winetricks recommends it instead of directx9, d3dx9 does NOT work for me: it causes a problem with the VC runtimes)

 wine /media/cdrom0/entropia_universe_setup.exe

(Again allow it to install the VC runtime; it should finish the installation--note that if you have to try this whole process again, installing on top of the previous EU installation is very fast and simply resets it back to VU10.0.)

sh winetricks wmp9

wine ClientLoader.exe

(Try to log in, loader patches to latest version. Try to log in again and the client comes up with the login prompt. Sound seems to work, too, but in the process of logging in, it dies)

 For some reason, EU is extremely susceptible to corruption of the VCRUN settings, meaning if you deviate from this order, you will probably get an error when you try to run the client loader. I suspect this is due to EU requiring the version of VCRUN2005SP1 with the security update. If anyone has greater success than a login screen, please report.